Billyboy
(Bil"ly*boy`) n. A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel. [Eng.]
Billy goat
(Bil"ly goat`) A male goat. [Colloq.]
Bilobate
(Bi*lo"bate) (bi*lo"bat or bi"lo*bat), a. [Pref. bi- + lobate.] Divided into two lobes or segments.
Bilobed
(Bi"lobed) a. [Pref. bi- + lobe.] Bilobate.
Bilocation
(Bi`lo*ca"tion) n. [Pref. bi- + location.] Double location; the state or power of being in two
places at the same instant; — a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints. Tylor.
Bilocular
(Bi*loc"u*lar) a. [Pref. bi- + locular: cf. F. biloculaire.] Divided into two cells or compartments; as,
a bilocular pericarp. Gray.
Bilsted
(Bil"sted) n. (Bot.) See Sweet gum.
Biltong
(||Bil"tong) n. [S. African.] Lean meat cut into strips and sun-dried. H. R. Haggard.
Bimaculate
(Bi*mac"u*late) a. [Pref. bi- + maculate, a.] Having, or marked with, two spots.
Bimana
(||Bim"a*na) n. pl. [NL. See Bimanous.] (Zoöl.) Animals having two hands; — a term applied
by Cuvier to man as a special order of Mammalia.
Bimanous
(Bim"a*nous) a. [L. bis twice + manus hand.] (Zoöl.) Having two hands; two- handed.
Bimarginate
(Bi*mar"gin*ate) a. [Pref. bi- + marginate.] Having a double margin, as certain shells.
Bimastism
(Bi*mas"tism) n. [Pref. bi- + Gr. breast.] (Anat.) The condition of having two mammæ or
teats.
Bimedial
(Bi*me"di*al) a. [Pref. bi- + medial.] (Geom.) Applied to a line which is the sum of two
lines commensurable only in power (as the side and diagonal of a square).
Bimembral
(Bi*mem"bral) a. [L. bis twice + membrum member.] (Gram.) Having two members; as, a
bimembral sentence. J. W. Gibbs.
Bimensal
(Bi*men"sal) a. [Pref. bi- + mensal.] See Bimonthly, a. [Obs. or R.]
Bimestrial
(Bi*mes"tri*al) a. [L. bimestris; bis twice + mensis month.] Continuing two months. [R.]
Bimetallic
(Bi`me*tal"lic) a. [Pref. bi- + metallic: cf. F. bimétallique.] Of or relating to, or using, a double
metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency.
Bimetallism
(Bi*met"al*lism) n. [F. bimétalisme.] The legalized use of two metals (as gold and silver) in
the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; — in opposition to monometallism.
The words bimétallisme and monométallisme are due to M. Cernuschi [1869]. Littré.
Bimetallist
(Bi*met"al*list) n. An advocate of bimetallism.
