- 2. Haughty, arrogant, proud, pompous, important, swelling, swollen, tumid, inflated, boastful, lofty, bombastic,
blustering, assuming, self-conceited, self-sufficient.
- 3. Distended, swollen, inflated, tumid, full.
- 4. Pregnant, enceinte, with child, in the family way, on the increase.
- 5. Full, teeming, fecund, fruitful, productive.
Big-bellied, a. Large-bellied, great-bellied, pot-bellied, tun-bellied, abdominous, paunchy.
Bight, n.
- 1. (Naut.) Bend, coil, round, loop.
- 2. Bay, inlet, cove.
Bigot, n. Zealot, fanatic, dogmatist.
Bigoted, a. Prejudiced, intolerant, obstinate, opiniative, hidebound, dogmatical, narrow-minded, self- opinionated, over-zealous, creed-bound, wedded to an opinion.
Bigotry, n. Prejudice, intolerance, blind zeal, obstinacy, opiniativeness, dogmatism, zealotry, fanaticism.
Big-sounding, a. High-sounding, magniloquent, altiloquent, tumid, perfervid, inflated.
Big-wig, n. (Colloq.) Person of consequence, high official, great personage.
Big-wrigged, a. Consequential, pompous, self-important. See big, 2.
Bijou, n. [Fr.]
- 1. Jewel, trinket, elegant ornament.
- 2. Gem, beauty, darling, little darling, little beauty, little dear, little gem.
Bijouterie, n. Jewelry, jewels, trinkets.
Bilabiate, a. (Bot.) Two-lipped.
Bilateral, a. Two-sided, with two sides, in two sides.
Bilbo, n. Rapier, short sword.
Bilboes, n. pl. Shackles, fetters, gyves, chains, stocks.
Bile, n.
- 1. Hepatic excretion.