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Show BI B I l BYLINGSGATE. x. /. [A cant word, borrowed from Biling/gate in London, BI When dottors firft have fign'd the bloody bill Biri'NGuouUs. adj. [bilinguis, Lat.] Having, or fpeaking, two tongues Bir'ciovus. adj. [from &ilis, Lat.] Con" fifting of bile; partaking of bile writing law They remembere tha expreffet the grief an eithe This bill is fometime Th th offered to juftice bill may have upon the kingdom Their &ills were thwarted croffways at the end lard BILL. ». f [bille, Sax. zpibille, a tw edged axe. 1. Akind of hatchet with a hooked point ufed in country work, as a bedging bill o 2. A kind of weapo anciently carrie Againft thy feat both young and old rebel Shak BILL. #. /. [billet, Fr. 1. A written paper of any kind He does receiv Particular addition from the 4i/ That writes them all alike Shakefpeare 2, An account of money Ordinary expenc ough to be limite by man's eftaie, and ordered to the beft, that the 4i// may be lefs than the eftimation abroad. - Bacon 3. Alaw prefented to the parliament, no yet made an act N new law can be made nor ol laws abro gated or alteyed, but by parliament; wher are prepared, and prefented to the two houfes &ill Bacon How now for mitigation of this 4il/ Urg'd by the commons ? doth his majeft Incline to it, or no Shakefpeare 4. An alt of parliament There will be no way left for me to tell you @ a [fro Bin. #n. /. [bmne "kings prevent 5. A phyfician's prefcription Aiterbury As when, from rooting in a bin All powder'd o'er from tail to chin A lively maggot fallies out You know him by his hazel fnou And twallow'd it inftead o' th pill. ~ Hudibras The medicine was prepased according to the i/ Vou. L Eftrange Sao'fr Br'~ary. adj. [from binus, Lat. Two dual; double Bi'~Nary drithmetick. A method of computation propofed by Mr. Leibnitz, i n, /. [biHet, French. 1. A {mall paper; a note which wa only written Remember Cegfary he was exceedingl commo Clarendon i1n lheu of the ten figures in th arithmetick, an fion from ten to ten 2. A ticket dire@ing foldiers at what houf tolodge th progr'ef he has only tw figures, and ufes the fimple progreffio Pope from two to two. This method appear to be the fame with that ufed by th Chinefe four thoufand years ago 4. [Bilot, Fr.] A {mall log of wood for th Zo BIND. w. g. _chimney Like him that took the do&or's 4il/ A place wher The moft convenient way of picking hops, i into a long {quare frame of wood, called a bin Mortimer letter lov bille fof o Billet- 3 oux that I remember you, and that I love you, bu >Twas then, Belinda! if report fay true that one, which needs no open warrant, or fecre canveyance; which no ills can preclude, nor n Sax. bread, or corn, or wine, is repofited about under the name of a fovereign antidote L'Efirange Thy eyes firt open'd on a billet-doux Swelling And whitening down the mofiy-tin&ur'd ftream Defcends the billozuy foam TFomfon &:ll, a writing. confounded Bi'vrowy. adj. [from billow. turgid ; wavy and billing this little dillet, in whic T The billowing fnow, and violence of the thow'r That from the hills difperfe their dreadful ftore And o'er the vales colleéted rain pour Prior His mafterpiece was a compofition that he.bil/e When he foun fwell, or roll, as a wave To publifh by an advertifement : a can word Bi'vvet Locke 70 Bi'Lrow. @. n. [from the noun. To Like Philip and Mary on a fhilling Hudibras They bill; they tread ; Alcyone comprefs' Seven days fits brooding on her floating neft Dryden He that bears th® artillery of Jove The ftrong pounc'd eagle, and the bil/ing dove Dryden Zo Bivr . Shake[peare down that firft ftirred them Wotton Chafing Nereus with his trident throw The billows from the bottom Denbant fond and fond Hubberd's Tale. His tumbling billozvs rolls with gentle rore. Spenfer Billows fink by degrees, even when the wind i carefs, as doves by joining bills ; to b Still amorous From whence the river Dee, as filver cleen Doves, they fay, will bil/, after their pecking and their murmuring Ben Fonfon's Catalinc by the foot ; a battle axe Yea diftaff women manage rutty &i//s bill, a beak. Balyards much unfit hollow fentences are bills of exchange {fro ‘Thu BI'LLOW. n. /. [bilge, Germ. bolg, Dan probably of the fame original with biliz Sax. a bladder. A wave {woln, an Standing troops are fervants armed, who ufe th «w. 7 therefore they proEngland both th which is corrupte or fticks with whic paffion whom money due, or taken up upon eredit, in a foreign country, fhall be paid Locke Birv ha Smooth as is the billiard ball Ben Fonfor Some are forced to bound or fly upwards, almof like ivory balls meeting on a billiard table. Bayle When the ball obeys the ftroke of a billiar ftick, it is not any aétion of the ball, but bar upon the credit of which we lay our cares down lance and-fword, as other fervants do the fickle or § the 4i//, at the command of thofe who entertai them. Templ languag Let it alone ; let's to billiards Even nofe and cheek withal the value paid to him in another place to the beak of a bird of prey tha A game at which a ball is forced againf another on a table its refemblance in for called fro whic and receive provifions Taylor All that a bill of exchange can do, is to direct to/ { o And fhuttlecocks miffecming manly wit remitter, in confideration o - The comfortabl Fr a ball is driven along a table Spenfer 10. A bill of exchange. A note orderin the payment of a fum of money in on place, to fome perfon afligned by th drawe werc f Clayendon no etymology ; an bably derived fro play and the name from balyards, yard It may feem fomewhat difficult to make out th bills of fare for fome of the forementioned fuppers Arbuthnst Nor with his horny bil/ provoke the day. Dryden counties throughout the kingdo BY'LLIARDS. . [ without a fingular. [ bil 9. A bill of fare. An account of the feafo of provifions, or of the difhes at a feaft In his &il An olive leaf he brings, pacifick fign Milton No crowing cock does there his wings difplay Raleigh them Moft who took in the weekly bills of mortality made little other ufe of them, than to look at th And multiply'd with theirs the weekly 4i//. Dryd him of charging the king refufed to fuffer the foldiers to be &illered upc 8. A bill of mortality. An account of th numbers that have died in any diftrict Th Shakefpeare incenfed, and their affeions poifoned, that the Saift foot, how the burials encreafed or decreafed Graunt So liv'd our fires, ere do€tors learn'd to kill dom, by billeting foldiers Ceavell The fourth thing very maturely to be confulte by the jury, is, what influence their finding th and with thefe they would cut an apple in two a Carew one fnap It may be tried, whether birds may not be mad to have greater or longer bills, or greater or longe talons Bacon 2. To quarter foldiers tition of procefs againt the defendant for redrefs Bilkd fationers for yeomen ftood prepar'd Dryden ‘What comedy, what farce can more delight ‘Than grinning hunger, and the pleafing figh Dryden Of your 4ilk'd hopes Dryden plained of, the damages thereby fuffered, and pe . ing payment BILL. #. /. [bile, Sax. See Barr. beak of a fowl Away, I fay errants in the general affizes; but moft to th It containeth the faét comlord chancellor 9o BILK. w.a. [derived by Mr. Lye fro . the Gothick &i/aican.] To cheat; t .defraud, by running in debt and avoid Retire thee 5 go where thou art §ilkered wrong that the complainant hath fuffered by the party complained of5 or elfe fome fault that th party complained of hath committed againft fom Why bilious juice a golden light puts on, And floods of chyle in filyer currents run. Garth ‘When the tafte of the mouth is bitter, itis a fig Arbuthnot of a redundance of a biljous alkali Dryden 1. An obligation, but without condition, o 2. A declaration i forfeiture for non-payment Pope And fhameful diling[gate her robes adorn To BI'LLET. 2. . [from the noun. 1. To dirett a foldier by a ticket, or note where he is to lodge Let them, but under your fuperiours, kill lace where there is always a crowd of 6. An advertifement low people, and frequent brawls and fou And in defpair, their empty pit to fill language.] Ribaldry ; foul language Set up fome foreign monfter in a bill There ftript, fair rhetorick languifh'd on the 7. [In law. ground i Chambers pret. I bound ; partigip pafl. bound, or ?Fozmdm. [binban, Sax. Let us then calculate, when the bulk ofa fago 1. To confine with bonds ; to enchain or billet is dilated and rarified to the degree of fire how vaft a place it muft-take up. Digby on Badis Priors Their billet at the fire was found Wilt thou play with hi as with a bird? o wilt thou éind him {?t:r éhy maidens Job 22 'li |