Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: BI-NOC'U-LAR – BI-PO'LAR
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BI-NOC'U-LAR, a. [See Binocle.]
Having two eyes; also, having two apertures or tubes, so joined that one may use both eyes at once in viewing a distant object; as, a binocular telescope. – Encyc.
BIN-OC'U-LATE, a. [L. bis and oculus.]
Having two eyes.
BI-NO'MI-AL, a. [L. bis, twice, and nomen, name.]
In algebra, a root consisting of two members connected by the sign plus or minus; as, a + b, or 7 - 3. – Encyc.
BI-NOM'IN-OUS, a. [L. bis, twice, and nomen, name.]
Having two names. – Johnson.
BI-NOT'ON-OUS, a. [bis and note.]
Consisting of two notes; as, a binotonous cry. – Montague.
BI-OG'RA-PHER, n. [See Biography.]
One who writes an account or history of the life and actions of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch.
BI-O-GRAPH'IC, or BI-O-GRAPH'IC-AL, a.
Pertaining to biography, or the history of the life of a person; containing biography.
BI-O-GRAPH'IC-AL-LY, adv.
In the manner of a biography.
BI-OG'RA-PHY, n. [Gr. βιος, life, and γραφω, to write.]
The history of the life and character of a particular person.
BI-OL'O-GY, n. [Gr. βιος and λογος.]
The science of life; a term introduced by Treviranus of Bremen, in place of physiology. – Lawrence.
BI-O-TI'NA, n. [from Biot, a French naturalist.]
A newly discovered Vesuvian mineral, whose primitive form is that of an obtuse rhomboid. – Journ. of Science.
BIP'A-ROUS, a. [L. bis, twice, and pario, to bear.]
Bringing forth two at a birth.
BI-PART'I-BLE, or BI-PART'ILE, a. [L. bis, twice, and partio, to divide.]
That may be divided into two parts. – Martyn.
BI-PAR'TIENT, a. [L. bis, twice, and partio, partiens, to divide.]
Dividing into two parts. – Ash.
BIP'AR-TITE, a. [L. bis, twice, and partitus, divided.]
- Having two correspondent parts, as a legal contract or writing, one for each party.
- In botany, divided into two parts to the base, as a leaf. – Martyn.
BI-PAR-TI'TION, n.
The act of dividing into two parts, or of making two correspondent parts. – Johnson.
BI-PEC'TIN-ATE, a. [L. bis and pecten, a comb.]
In botany, having two margins toothed like a comb.
BI'PED, n. [L. bipes, of bis, twice, and pes, pedis, a foot.]
An animal having two feet, as man.
BIP'E-DAL, a.
Having two feet, or the length of two feet.
BI-PEL'TATE, a. [L. bis and pelta, a buckler.]
Having a defense like a double shield.
BI-PEN'NATE, or BI-PEN'NA-TED, a. [L. bis, and penna, a wing or feather.]
- Having two wings.
- In botany, having pinnate leaves on each side of the petiole, as a leaf or frond. – Martyn.
BI-PET'A-LOUS, a. [L. bis, and Gr. πεταλον.]
Having two flower leaves or petals.
BI-PIN'NATE, a. [the more usual spelling of Bipennate.]
BI-PIN'NA-TI-FID, or BI-PEN'NA-TI-FID, a. [L. bis, twice, pinna, a wing, or feather, and findo, to divide.]
Doubly pinnatifid; having the primary segments of the leaves pinnatifid.
BI-PO'LAR, a.
Doubly polar. – Coleridge.