n. Habiliment. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biol.) One who believes that life can be produced independently of antecedent. Huxley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) A medicine that diminishes or alleviates irritation. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

adj. (Med.) Diminishing or alleviating irritation Stedman. [ AS ]

def>3d sing. pres. of Abide. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. adhibitus, p. p. of adhibere to hold to; ad + habere to have. ] 1. To admit, as a person or thing; to take in. Muirhead. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To use or apply; to administer. Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To attach; to affix. Alison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. albicans, p. pr. of albicare, albicatum, to be white, fr. albus white. ] Growing or becoming white. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ambiens, p. pr. of ambire to go around; amb- + ire to go. ] Encompassing on all sides; circumfused; investing. “Ambient air.” Milton. “Ambient clouds.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Something that surrounds or invests; as, air . . . being a perpetual ambient. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ambitus circuit, fr. ambire to go around. See Ambient. ] Circuit or compass. [ 1913 Webster ]

His great parts did not live within a small ambit. Milward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One excessively ambitious. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 undecided as to whether or not to take a proposed course of action; having feelings both for and against the proposed action.
Syn. -- on the fence(predicate), suspensive, uncertain [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. Arabiste. ] One well versed in the Arabic language or literature; also, formerly, one who followed the Arabic system of surgery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. arbitramentum. ] 1. Determination; decision; arbitration. [ 1913 Webster ]

The arbitrament of time. Everett. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gladly at this moment would MacIvor have put their quarrel to personal arbitrament. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The award of arbitrators. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who writes his own life; an autobiographer. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To line with Babbitt metal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A believer in Babism. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A small decorative object without practical utility. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her pictures, her furniture, and her bibelots. M. Crawford. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One skilled in the knowledge of the Bible; a demonstrator of religious truth by the Scriptures. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ See. Bibliolatry. ] A worshiper of books; especially, a worshiper of the Bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bookbinder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A lover of books. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Bibliopole. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Gr. &unr_; book + &unr_; a burial. ] One who hides away books, as in a tomb. [ R. ] Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. bibliste. See Bible. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. One who makes the Bible the sole rule of faith. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A biblical scholar; a biblicist. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Contention. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bicycler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. bidens, -entis, having two prongs; bis twice + dens a tooth. ] An instrument or weapon with two prongs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bidet, perh. fr. Celtic; cr. Gael. bideach very little, diminutive, bidein a diminutive animal, W. bidan a weakly or sorry wretch. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of bath tub for sitting baths; a sitz bath. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Astron.) A periodic coment, discovered by Biela in 1826, which revolves around the sun in 6.6 years. The November meteors (Andromedes or Bielids) move in its orbit, and may be fragments of the comet. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. Digamist. ] One who is guilty of bigamy. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a., superl. of Big. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. béguin and OF. beguinet, dim of béguin. See Biggin a cap. ] A cap or hood with pieces covering the ears. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bi&yogh_;t a bending; cf. Sw. & Dan. bugt bend, bay; fr. AS. byht, fr. būgan. √88. Cf. Bout, Bought a bend, and see Bow, v. ] 1. A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geog.) A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) The double part of a rope when folded, in distinction from the ends; that is, a round, bend, or coil not including the ends; a loop. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bigoted. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In a country more bigot than ours. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bigot a bigot or hypocrite, a name once given to the Normans in France. Of unknown origin; possibly akin to Sp. bigote a whisker; hombre de bigote a man of spirit and vigor; cf. It. s-bigottire to terrify, to appall. Wedgwood and others maintain that bigot is from the same source as Beguine, Beghard. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A hypocrite; esp., a superstitious hypocrite. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion. [ 1913 Webster ]

To doubt, where bigots had been content to wonder and believe. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. prenom. same as expensive, but in an absolute sense; -- referring to items of a type which are all expensive, such as automobiles, refrigerators, or large-screen television sets. The roaring stock market led to an increase in the purchase of big-ticket items during the 1996 Christmas season. cheap
Syn. -- costly, dear, high-priced, pricey, pricy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Pref. bi- + hydroguret. ] (Chem.) A compound of two atoms of hydrogen with some other substance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] The toy called cup and ball. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman's ornament; habiliment. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in two languages. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. billet, dim. of an OF. bille bill. See Bill a writing. ] 1. A small paper; a note; a short letter. “I got your melancholy billet.” Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge; as, a billet of residence. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Quarters or place to which one is assigned, as by a billet or ticket; berth; position. Also used fig. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The men who cling to easy billets ashore. Harper's Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

His shafts of satire fly straight to their billet, and there they rankle. Pall Mall Mag. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Billeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Billeting. ] [ From Billet a ticket. ] (Mil.) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence: To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses. [ 1913 Webster ]

Billeted in so antiquated a mansion. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. billette, bille, log; of unknown origin; a different word from bille ball. Cf. Billiards, Billot. ] 1. A small stick of wood, as for firewood. [ 1913 Webster ]

They shall beat out my brains with billets. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Metal.) A short bar of metal, as of gold or iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Arch.) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Saddlery) (a) A strap which enters a buckle. (b) A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Her.) A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. billot, dim. of bille. See Billet a stick. ] Bullion in the bar or mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n., or . [ Perh. from bully + cock; that is, cocked like the hats of the bullies. ] A round, low-crowned felt hat; a wideawake. “The undignified billycocks and pantaloons of the West.” B. H. Chamberlain. [ 1913 Webster ]

Little acquiesced, and Ransome disguised him in a beard, and a loose set of clothes, and a billicock hat. Charles Reade. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

A male goat. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An advocate of bimetallism. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Elec.) A metallic post attached to electrical apparatus for convenience in making connections. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. bi`os life + -blast. ] (Biol.) Same as Bioplast. [ 1913 Webster ]