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bivittate (bi-vit'at), a. [< bi-~ + ritta + -ate 1 .] bizcacha (bith-ka'cha), w. Same as viscaclia. 
1. In but., having two vittas or oil-tubes: ap- bizelt, ". An obsolete form of bezel. 
jilied to the fruit of some I'mltcllifcrn: 2. In Bizen ware. Soe pottery. 
zoiil., marked with two longitudinal stripes. bizlet, '' Same as liczzlc. 
bivium (biv'i-um), . [NL., neut. of L. biriun: bizmellaht (biz-mel'a), interj. Same as bismil- 
see bivioiis.~\ In cchinoderms, the ambulacra of lull. 
the two posterior arms or rays taken together bizygomatic (bi-zi-go-mat'ik), a. [< 6i- 2 + 
and distinguished from the three anterior rays zyyomatic.] Pertaining to the two zygomatic 
collectively. See trivium, and cut under Spa- arches : as, the bizygomatic breadth. 
taugoida. bjelkite (biel'kit), n. [< Bjelke (see def.) + 
In the fossil genus Dysaster this separation of the am- -t'fe 2 .] A variety of the mineral COSalite from 
bulacra into trivium and bivium exists naturally. the Bjelke mine, Nordmark, Sweden. 
Huxley, Anat. Invert., p. 488. fct b s. Abbreviations of book, books. 
bivocalized (bi-vo'kal-izd), a. Placed between B. L. An abbreviation (a) of Bachelor of Laic ; 
two vowels. (6) in com., of bill of lading. 
bivouac (biv'o-ak), . [Also binouack, in 18th blab 1 (blab), 
century occasionally biouac, biovac, bihovac, < 
F. bivouac, formerly biouac, orig. bivac, prob. < 
G. dial. (Swiss) beiiraclit, a patrol of citizens 
pret. and pp. blabbed, ppr. 
blabbing. [In ME. only in the freq. form 
(which is preferred for such words ; cf. babble, 
gabble, gabber, jabber, etc.), but the derived 
V" mmfm */ ~-. - jn ^ yWVVW) */l*(/Vt>f , JWWf . VW*Jm WU.li LUC UCJ.1 VCU 
added in time of alann or commotion to the noun Uabbe, a blab, telltale, occurs : see blab 1 , 
regular town watch (cf. G. beiwache, a keep- 
ing watch), < bei, =E. by, + *wacht, G. wache = 
E. watch, .] An encampment of soldiers in the 
open air without tents, each soldier remaining 
dressed and with his weapons by him ; hence, 
figuratively, a position or situation of readi- 
ness for emergencies, or a situation demanding 
extreme watchfulness. 
We followed up our victory until night overtook us 
about two miles from Port Gibson ; then the troops went 
into bivouac for the night. 
U. S. Grant, Personal Memoirs, I. 484. 
In the world's broad field of battle, 
In the bivouac of Life, 
Be not like dumb, driven cattle ! 
Be a hero in the strife ! 
Longfellow, Psalm of Life. 
bivouac (biv'o-ak), i\ i. ; pret. and p 
. . . d pp. bivou- Wab i (b i ab) n . 
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n., and blabber 1 , v. ] I. trans. To utter or tell 
in a thoughtless or unnecessary manner (what 
ought to be kept secret) ; let out (secrets). 
Oh, that delightful engine of her thoughts, 
That blabb'd them with such pleasing eloquence. 
Shak., Tit. And., iii. 1. 
Yonder a vile physician, blabbing 
The case of his patient. 
Tennyson, Maud, xxvii. 3. 
II. intrans. To talk indiscreetly ; tattle ; tell 
tales. 
You're sure the little milliner won't blab > 
Sheridan, School for Scandal, iv. 3. 
But letters, however carefully drilled to be circumspect, 
are sure to blab, and those of Pope leave in the reader's 
mind an unpleasant feeling of circumspection. 
Low " 
camp in the open air without tents or cover- 
ing, as soldiers on a march or in expectation 
of an engagement. 
We passed on for about half a mile in advance, and 
bivouacked on some rising ground. 
Sir S. W. Baker, Heart of Africa, p. 180. 
The Chasseurs Normandie arrive dusty, thirsty, after a 
hard day's ride, but can find no billet-master. . . . Nor- 
mandie must even bivouac there in its dust and thirst. 
veil, Study Windows, p. 427. 
ME. blabbe : see blab 1 , v.} 
A babbler; a telltale; one who betrays secrets, 
or tells things which ought to be kept secret. 
Good merchant, lay your fingers on your mouth ; 
Be not a blab. Greene, James IV., v. 
Excluded 
All friendship, and avoided as a blab, 
The mark of fool set on his front ! 
Milton, S. A., 1. 495. 
Show me a very inquisitive body, I'll show you a blab. 
Sir R. L' Estrange. 
..., ... "" Fre " ch R f, v - blab*t (blab), *. [Another form of bkb, blob.} 
(be wa), u. [Jap., = Chinese < pi-pa, the A bubble . a b i ister ; a swelling. 
Chinese medlar.] The loquat ; the fruit of the blab 2 t (b ^ b) t .. ;. or ' L r< b i a & n i To u 
PhotmmJapomca. out or up . make swoll e n L as the cheeks, 
biwa- (be wa), n. [Jap., = Chinese pi-pa, a blabber^ (blab'er), r. i. [< ME. blaberen, stam- 
guitar ] A Japanese musica instrument with mer ta lk without reason, blabber, blab, = LG. 
M ^" n gs,_ resembling a flat mandolin U(Mern = G . plappern> ' blab babble ' = Dau . 
biweekly (bi-wek li), a. and adv. [< bi-2 + i ta 66,- e b l abber , gabble : imitative words, prob. 
weekly.} I. a. Occurring or appearing every in part ' of i n< j e p|n dent origin . Similar forms 
two weeks: as, a biweekly magazine. Sometimes o f imitative origin are Swfdial. bladdra, blaf- 
fra, prattle, D. LG. G. blaffen (> E. bla" 
erroneously used in place of xemiweekly, for or occurring 
twice in a week. 
yelp ; OHG. blabbigoit, MHG. blepzen, babble ; 
ML. blaberare, for L. blaterare, babble ; Gael. 
blabaran, a stammerer, blabhdach, babbling, 
plabair, a babbler; E. blather, blether 1 , bab- 
ble, etc.] 1. To speak inarticulately; babble; 
mumble. 
II. adv. Fortnightly. 
biwepet, " An obsolete form of bcweep. 
Bixaceae (bik-sa'se-e), n. pi. [NL., < Bixa, the 
typical genus, + -acece.'} A natural order of 
polypetalous exogenous plants, nearly related 
to the Violacew. They are mostly shrubs or trees, 
natives of file warmer regions of the globe, and of little 
economic importance. There are about 30 genera, mostly 
small. The most prominent species is Bixa Orcllaiia, 
yielding arnotto. See cut under amotto. 
bixin (bik'sin), n. [< Bixa + -2.] l. The or- 
ange-coloring principle (C 16 H 2 eO 2 ) of arnotto, 
a vermilion-red powder, insoluble in water or ,, ,, ,,.,,,., 
ether, but soluble in alcohol and benzol 2 blabber 1 (blab er), K. [< blabber*, (;.] A tat- 
A variety of arnotto, having from six to ten 1 
Mow you may see how easie it is to speak right, and not 
to blabber like boors in any speech. 
Wodroephe, Fr. and Eng. Gram. (1623), p. 126. 
2. To tell tales; blab; talk idly. 3. To fib; 
falter. Skinner. 4. To whistle to a horse. 
Skinner. 
times the coloring power of common arnotto, 
from quicker extraction. 
biza, n. See bisa. 
bizardt (biz'ard), n. Same as bizarre. 
bizarre (bi-zar'), a. and n. [F. (formerly also 
bigearre, bijarre), strange, capricious, formerly 
tier; a telltale. 
'Tis fairies' treasure, 
Which but reveal'd, brings on the blabber's ruin. 
Mastringer and Field, Fatal Dowry, iv. 1. 
blabber 2 (blab'er), a. [< ME. blaber, blabyr. 
Cf. Wa&2, Ueb, blob, blobber, blubber, etc.] 
Swollen; protruding: as, 6Za66er-lipped ; blab- 
ber cheeks. 
iotesqul' 
Roger Xorth, Life of Lord Guilford i in 
Matter and Motions are bizarr things, humoursome and 
capricious to excess. Gentleman, Instructed, p. 559. 
These paintings . . . depended from the walls not only 
in their main surfaces, but in very many nooks which the 
Kimm architecture of the chateau rendered necessary. 
TT . . , r " e ' Tales > J - 36a - 
II. , A variety of carnation m which the 
white ground-color is striped with two colors, 
blabbing (blab'ing), pa. [Ppr. of blab\ .] 
Havln g the character of a blab; talking indis- 
' tl'J.f.M'' aS ',"lS Ual)bin O eastern 
scout," Mtltoll, Conius, 1. 138. 
black (blak), . and n. [< ME. blak, blek, blekc, 
< AS. blax (in def. inflection blaca, blace, some- 
times with long vowel blaca, blace, and thus 
confused with lilac, blcec, ME. blake, etc., shin- 
ing, white (see Weafci), = OHG. (in comp.) blah, 
= (with appar. diff. orig 
Bizarre q 
A S. blue = MLG. black, LG. Oak = MHG. black 
black 
= Icel. blck = Sw. Mack = Dan bla'k, ink: see 
blcck) ; prob. from a verb repr. secondarily by 
D. blaken, burn, scorch, freq. blakcrcn, scorch, 
MLG. (> G.) blaken, burn with much smoke, LG. 
vcrblckketi, scorch as the sun scorches grain ; 
perhaps akin to \j.flagrare, Gr. <j>'/.i -j civ, burn : see 
flagrant, flame, phlegm. Hence blatch, bleck, 
bletch, bleach^; but not connected, unless re- 
motely, with bleak 1 , bleach 1 , q. v.] I. a. 1. 
Possessing in the highest degree the property 
of absorbing light; reflecting and transmitting 
little or no light ; of the color of soot or coal ; 
of the darkest possible hue; sable; optically, 
wholly destitute of color, or absolutely dark, 
whether from the absence or from the total ab- 
sorption of light : opposed to white. 
I spy a black, suspicious, threat'ning cloud. 
Shak., S Hen. VI., v. 3. 
On either hand, as far as eye could see, 
A great black swamp and of an evil smell. 
Tennyson, Holy Grail. 
A black body is one which absorbs every ray which falls 
on it. It can, therefore, neither reflect nor transmit. A 
mass of coke suggests the conception of such a body. 
Ta.it, Light, 307. 
Hence 2. Characterized by the absence of 
light; involved or enveloped in darkness. 
In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark 
night. Prov. vii. 9. 
And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again. 
Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 1020. 
3. Dismal; gloomy; sullen and forbidding : as, 
a black prospect. 4. Destitute of moral light 
or goodness; evil; wicked; atrocious: as, black 
deeds. 
"Thou art," quoth she, " a'sca, a sovereign king, 
And, lo, there falls into thy boundless flood 
Black lust, dishonour, shame, misgoverning." 
Shak., Lucrece, 1. 664. 
During stages in which maintenance of authority is 
most imperative, direct disloyalty is considered the black- 
tut of crimes. //. Spencer, Prlii. of Sociol., 532. 
5. Calamitous; disastrous; bringing ruin or 
desolation: as, black tidings; black Friday. 
Black tidings these, . . . blacker never came to New 
England. Hawthorne, Twice-Told Tales, II. 
6. Deadly; malignant; baneful: as, a black 
augury. 
Taking thy part, hath rush'd aside the law, 
And turned that black word death to banishment. 
Shak., R. and J., iii. 3. 
7. Clouded with anger: frowning; threaten- 
ing; boding ill: as, black looks. 
She hath abated me of half my train ; 
Look'd black upon me ; struck me with her tongue. 
Shak., Lear, ii. 4. 
8. Wearing black or dark clothing, armor, etc. : 
as, Edward the Slack Prince; black friars. 
9. Stained with dirt; soiled; dirty: as, black 
hands. [Colloq.]-Black Act, Black acts. See art. 
Black amber. Same as jet. Black and blue, having 
the dark livid color of a bruise in the flesh, which is ac- 
companied with a mixture of blue. See blue and blae. 
Mistress Ford ... is beaten black and blue, that you 
cannot see a white spot about her. 
Shak., M. W. of W., iv. 5. 
Black and tan, having black hair upon the back, and 
tan or yellowish-brown upon the face, flanks, and legs, as 
some dogs : said specifically of a kind of terrier dog, and 
sometimes used elliptically as a substantive. 
Consider the St. Bernards and the mastiffs, the pugs 
and the bull-dogs, the black-aml-taiis and the King Char- 
lies. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXVIII. 599. 
Black antimony, art, assembly, bead-tree, bear- 
berry, etc. See under the nouns. Black belt, that region 
of the southern United States, comprising portions of 
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Loui- 
siana, in which the ratio of the colored population to the 
white is (,-reatest. Black bile. See atrabile. Black 
bindweed, book, canker, chalk, death, etc. See the 
nouns. Black drink, a decoction of the leaves of Ilex 
cassine., used by the Indians of the southern I'nited States 
as a medicine and as a drink of ceremony. Black eartn. 
See earth. Black Flags, bands of irregular soldiers in- 
festing the upper valley of the Red River in Tomniln. 
They were originally survivors of the Taiping rebellion in 
China ; increased by the accession of various adventurers, 
they fought against the French in their ware with Annam 
about 1873-85. Black Friday, frost, etc. See the nouns. 
Black glass, a glass made in Venice of sand, sulphur, and 
Eld of manganese. It is of a deep-black color. Black 
en. See hagden. Black Hand, an anarchistic 
y in Spain composed of members of the laboring 
classes. JIany of its members in southern Spain were 
arrested and imprisoned in 1883. Black Harry, Black 
Will, local names in the United States of the sea-bass, 
Centropristes . fa mw. Black herring. See herring. 
Black in the flesh, and waxed andlrfack In the grain, 
terms applied to skins curried on the inner and outer sides 
respectively. The former is applied to the 1 uppers of 
men's shoes, and the latter of women's. Black japan. 
See japan. Black Maria, a closely covered vehicle, usu- 
ally painted black, used in conveying prisoners to and 
from jail. Black martin, Monday, naphtha, ocher, 
etc. See the nouns. Black rent, exactions formerly 
levied by native chieftains in Ireland, particularly upon 
districts where English were settled. 
