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Show BI BI Bi'rpING-PIECE, # /i [from dird and piece.] A fowling-piece 5 a gun to fhoo birds with I'll creep up into the chimney. --There the always ufe to difcharge their birdipg-picces5 cree Shakefpeare into the kill hole Bi'rprime # / [ffo A glutinous fubftance bird and lime. is {prea whic upon twigs, by which the birds tha light upon them are entangled Birdlime is made of the bark of holly: the pound it into a tough pafte, that no fibres of th wood be left; then it is wafhed in a funnin ftream, till no motes appeary and put up to ferment and fcummed, and then laid up for ufe; at whic time they incorporate with it a third part of nu oil, over the fire. But the bark of our lantone, o wayfaring fhaub, will make very good birdlime Chambers Holly is of fo vifcous a juice, as they make birdJime of the bark of it. « Bacon's Natural Hiflory With ftores of gather'd glue contriv To ftop thie vents and crannies of their hive Not birdlime, or Idean pitch;-produc A more tenacious mafs of clammy-juice. Dryden I'm enfnar'd Heav'n's birdlime wraps me round, and glues m Dryden. wings The woodpecker, and other birds of this kind becaufe they prey upon flies which they catch wit their tongue, have a couple of bags filled with vifcous humour, as if it were a natural birdlime or liquid glue Grew. Bi'roMAN. 7 /[, [from bird and man. birdcatcher; a fowler As a fowler was bending his*net, a blackbir afked him what he was doing : why, fays he, Ta laying the foundations of a city; and fo the birdman drew out of fight ‘L' Eftrange Bi'rRDS-CHERRY. #. /. [padus Theophra/ti.] A plant Br'rpsevE 2. [adonis Lat. Th name of a plant Br'rpsrooT. #. [ [ornithopodium, Lat. The name of a plant Bi'rDSNEST. #. /- An herb Dia Bi'rRDSTARES. 7. Jo [aracus. A plant BI'RDSTONGUE. # /o An herb Di& B1I'RGANDER. 7. [ [chenalopex.] A fow of the goofe kind Di& BirT. 7. /. A fifh, the fame with th turbot; which fee BIRTH. 7. /. [beopn, Sax. 1. The a& of coming into life Shakefpeare's King Fobn In Spain, our fpringslike old men's children be Decay'd and wither'd from their infancy No kindly thowers fall on our barren ecarth To hatch the feafons in a timely birth Dryden 2. Extra&ion ; lineage Denbams 3. Rank which is inherited by defcent He doth obje&, I am too great of birth Be juft in all you fay, and all you do ‘Whatever be your birzh, you're fure to b A peer of the firft magnitude to me Your nobleft father prov'd I lov'd her frft, T cannot quit the claim But will prefervé the birthright of my paffion Ben Fonfon Who of themfclve Otway Ablor to join 3 and, by imprudence mix'd While no bafenefs in #his breatt I find I have not loft the birthright of my mind. Dryden To fay that liberty and property are the birth Produce prodigious births of body or mind. Ailr She, for this many thoufand years Seems to have pradtis'd with much car right of the Englifh nation, but that, if a princ invades them by illegal methods, we muft upon To frame the race of woman fair Yet never could a perfe& birt no pretence refift, is to confound governments Produce before, to grace the earth Addifor Waller BirTHSTRA'NGLED. adj. [from b&irt and ffrangle.] Strangled or fuffocate in being born His eldeft birt Flies, mark'd by heav'n, a fugitive o'er earth. Prior The vallies {mile, and with their flow'ry face And wealthy births, confefs the flood's embrace Blackmore Others hatch their eggs, and tend the birth, til it is able to fhift for itfelf 6. The Ditch-deliver'd by a-drab delivery. Ariflolochia, Lat. of a plant BI'SCOTIN. n. [. [French. That fair Syrian fhepherdef Who, after years of barrennefs The highly favour'd Jofeph bor To him that ferv'd for her before tion mad And at her next birth, much like thee Through pangs fled to felicity the dirth of tha The bifcuit a)fo in the (hips, efpecially in th Spanifh gallies, was grown hoary, and unwhole Many have been cured of dropfies by abftinence from drinks, eating dry b&ifcuit, whic creates no thirft, and ftrong fri€tions four or fiv 2. A compofition of fine flour, almonds and fugar, made by the confeftioners. 7o Bist'cT. v. a. [from binus and feco to cut, Lat.] To divide into two parts This is my birthday 5 as this very da ‘Was Caflius born Shakefpeare They tell me 'tis my birthday, and I'll keep i The rational horifon bife?eth the globe into tw equal parts Browan's Vulgar Errours With double pomp of fadnefs *Tis what the day deferves, which gave me breath Bisg'crion. 7 /. {from the verb.] geometrical term, fignifying the divifion of any quantity into two equal parts Dryder Your country dames Whofe cloaths returning birthday claims. = Prior BI'SHOP 2./ [This is erroneouily, It is derived from birth and dom (fe Dowm) as kingdom, dukedom.] Privileg of birth A bifbop is an overfeer, or f{uperintendant, o religious matters in the Chriftian church Let us rathe Hold faft the mortal fword ; and, like good men Beftride our downfaln birthdom Shakefpeare Ayliffe's Parergost You fhall find him wek accompany' With reverend fathers, and well learned bifbops Skakefpeare Their zealous fuperftition thinks, or pretends an night. they cannotdo God a greater fervice, than to de 1. The night on which any one is born ftroy the primitive, apoftolical, and anciently univerfal government of the church by /gfbops . Charles In cafe a- bifbop fhould commit treafon and fe Th' angelick fong in Bethlehem field On thy birthnight, that fung the Saviour born Paradife Regained 2. The night annually kept in memory o any one's birth lony, and ferfeit his eftate, with his life, the land of his bifhoprick remain fill in the church. Souté On the word i/bop, in French evéque, I woul obferve, that there is no natural connexion betwee Pope the facred office and the letters or found; fo evéque, and bifbop, fignify the fame office, thoug there is not one letter alike in'them. Pazts's Log Bi'RTHPLACE. #. /. [from &irth an Place where any one is born place. My birthplace hate I, and my love s upo Shak Dryden 4. The condition or circumftances in whic any man is born High in his chariot then Halefus came A foe by birth to Troy's unhappy name. Dyyden 5. Thing born ; prodution : ufed of vegetables, as well as animals The people fear me ; for they do obferv Unfather'd heirsy and loathly birgbs of nature Shakepearee Thi bee plac Bi'suop Shakefpeare enemy's town degree of ftupidity beyond even whatwe hav charged with, upon the fcore of our birthSavift and climate Bi'RTHRIGHT. n. /. [from birth an right.] 'The rights and privileges t whic a man is born ; the right of th firft-born Thy bleod and virtu Contend for empire in thee, and thy goodnef Shares with thy birtbright Shakefpeare Thou haft been foun By merit, more thaa birthright, Sen of &ods Mk »./. [From epifcopus, Lat. th Saxons formed bij-cop, which was afterwards foftened into 4i/£gp.] One of th head order of the clergy think, printed in Shakefpeare, birthdoon Arbuthnot on Dicr times a-day was born, annually obferved birt Knilles's Hiftory fome 2. The day of the year in which any on [fro 1. A kind of hard dry bread, made to b carried to fea : it is baked for long voyages four times Orient light Exhaling firft from darknefs, they beheld Birthday of heaven and earth Milton #z. / of flour, {fugar, marmalade cuit, baked, Fr. mefs. Alfo a convenient place to moo a fhip in, is called a birth Harris Br'rTHDAY. % /. [from birth and day. 1. The day on which any one is born Br'rTHDOM A confec Bi'scurr. #. /. [from bis, twice, Lat. an dif tance between fhips lying at an anchor or under fail, a birth. Alfo the prope place on board for the mefs to put thei ¢Fc. is calle The nam eggs, Milton 7. The feamen call a due or prepe chefts Shakefpeare's Macketh Br'rTuwoRrRT. 2 f. [from bifth and awers I fuppofe from a quality of haftenin Addifon of bringing forth Finger of birthfirangled babe A youth more glitt'ring than a birtbnight beau Moft virtuous virgin, born of heavenly birth. Spenf All truth T {hall relate : nor firft can Mylelf to be of Grecian birth deny BI That poets are far raree births than kings Br'RTHNIGHT But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy Nature and fortune join'd to make thee great ----SSSS 7. / ture of wine A cant word for a mixoranges, and.{fugar Fine oranges ‘Well roafted, with fugar and wine in a cup They'll make a fweet 6i/op, when gentlefolks fups Swift 7o Br'suor. @. a. [from the noun.] T confirm ; to admit folemnly into th church They are prophane, impetfe, oh! too Bad "Dannc Except confirm'd and bifhoped by the Br'snorRrICK. 2. /. [bircopnce, Saxon. a bithep ; the diftrictSove The diocefe of 5 |