(transitive) To clip around or about (the edges of); crop.
(transitive) To wrap around; enclose; encircle; surround.
(transitive, obsolete) To curdle (milk).
(transitive, obsolete) To fold in the arms; embrace; clasp.
(transitive, obsolete) To include; comprise; comprehend; contain.
(transitive, obsolete) To lay hold of; seize upon; grip; catch; overtake.
bedrip
bedrip
noun
(UK dialectal) A band of harvesters.
(UK dialectal) A crowd.
verb
(intransitive) To drip about or all over; drip onto (something).
bepaid
bepile
bepill
bepity
bepity
verb
(archaic) To pity greatly.
bespin
bespin
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To spin around or about, so as to cover; spin all over.
bespit
bespit
verb
(transitive) To spit upon (someone or something); to soil with spittle.
biceps
biceps
noun
(anatomy) Any muscle having two heads.
(informal) The upper arm, especially the collective muscles of the upper arm.
(prosody) A point in a metrical pattern that can be filled either with one long syllable (a longum) or two short syllables (two brevia)
Specifically, the biceps brachii, the flexor of the elbow.
bidpai
bidpai
Proper noun
Name given to a wise philosopher in traditional fables.
biopic
biopic
noun
(film) A motion picture based on the life (or lives) of a real, rather than fictional, person (or people).
biopsy
biopsy
noun
The removal and examination of a sample of tissue, cells, or bodily fluid from a living body for diagnostic purposes.
verb
To take a sample (a biopsy) for pathological examination.
bipack
bipack
noun
(cinematography) The process of loading two reels of film into a camera, so that they both pass through the camera gate together, formerly used for visual effects and as a subtractive colour process.
verb
(cinematography) To load two reels of film in this manner.
bipeds
bipeds
noun
plural of biped
bipods
bipods
noun
plural of bipod
bipont
bipont
Adjective
Relating to books printed at Zweibrücken in Bavaria.
bippus
bishop
bishop
noun
(Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.
(UK, dialectal, archaic) A children's smock or pinafore.
(US, archaic) A bustle.
(chess) The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
(dialectal) A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
(obsolete) Any watchman, inspector, or overlooker.
(obsolete) The holder of the Greek or Roman position of episcopus, supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc.
(religion, nonstandard) A similar official or chief priest in another religion.
A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
A flowering plant of the genus Bifora.
A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.
Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.
verb
(Christianity) To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
(Christianity) To make a bishop.
(Christianity, rare) To provide with bishops.
(UK, colloquial, obsolete) To murder by drowning.
(UK, dialectal) To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
(by extension, jocularly, obsolete) To confirm (in its other senses).
(by extension, of equestrianism) To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.
biskop
bitmap
bitmap
noun
(computing) A series of bits that represents a rasterized graphic image, each pixel being represented as a group of bits.
blimps
blimps
noun
plural of blimp
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blimp
boopic
boopis
bowpin
bunyip
bunyip
noun
(Australia) A mythical Australian monster, said to inhabit swamps and lagoons.
(Australia, slang, obsolete) An imposter or con-man.
ephebi
ibapah
obispo
philbo
philby
phobia
phobia
noun
An irrational, abnormal, or obsessive fear (of something).
phobic
phobic
adj
Experiencing or expressing phobia (strong fear and/or dislike).
Relating to a phobia.
noun
A person who has a phobia.
pibals
pibals
noun
plural of pibal
prebid
prebid
adj
Before a takeover bid.
priebe
probit
probit
noun
(statistics) A unit, derived from a standard distribution, used in measuring the responses to doses
The probit function, the inverse of the cumulative distribution function.
pubian
publia
public
public
adj
(not comparable, object-oriented programming) Accessible to the program in general, not only to the class or any subclasses.
(of a company) Traded publicly via a stock market.
Able to be seen or known by everyone; open to general view, happening without concealment.
Officially representing the community; carried out or funded by the state on behalf of the community.
Open to all members of a community; especially, provided by national or local authorities and supported by money from taxes.
Pertaining to the people as a whole (as opposed to a private group); concerning the whole country, community etc.
noun
(archaic) A public house; an inn.
(public relations) A particular group or demographic to be targeted.
The people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group.