Index of English words, starting with "bi"

(1) - Biliverdin (n.) A green pigment present in the bile, formed from bilirubin by oxidation.

(1) - Bilk (n.) A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person.
(2) - Bilk (n.) Nonsense; vain words.
(3) - Bilk (n.) A cheat; a trick; a hoax.
(4) - Bilk (n.) A thwarting an adversary in cribbage by spoiling his score; a balk.
(5) - Bilk (v. t.) To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor.

(1) - Bill (v. t.) To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.
(2) - Bill (v. i.) To strike; to peck.
(3) - Bill (v. i.) To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness.
(4) - Bill (n.) The bell, or boom, of the bittern
(5) - Bill (n.) A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill.
(6) - Bill (n.) A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff.
(7) - Bill (n.) One who wields a bill; a billman.
(8) - Bill (n.) A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.
(9) - Bill (n.) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.
(10) - Bill (v. t.) To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods.
(11) - Bill (n.) A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.
(12) - Bill (n.) A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document.
(13) - Bill (n.) A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
(14) - Bill (n.) A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill.
(15) - Bill (n.) An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill.
(16) - Bill (n.) Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc.
(17) - Bill (v. t.) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
(18) - Bill (n.) A pickax, or mattock.