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Bil"liard (&?;), a. Of or pertaining to the game of billiards. "Smooth as is a billiard ball." B. Jonson.

Bil"liards (&?;), n. [F. billiard billiards, OF. billart staff, cue form playing, fr. bille log. See Billet a stick.] A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.

Bill"ing (&?;), a. & n. Caressing; kissing.

Bil"lings*gate` (&?;), n. 1. A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language.

2. Coarsely abusive, foul, or profane language; vituperation; ribaldry.

Bil"lion (&?;), n. [F. billion, arbitrarily formed fr. L. bis twice, in imitation of million a million. See Million.] According to the French and American method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See Numeration.

Bill"man (&?;), n.; pl. Billmen (&?;). One who uses, or is armed with, a bill or hooked ax. "A billman of the guard." Savile.

||Bil`lon" (&?;), n. [F. Cf. Billet a stick.] An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage.

Bil"lot (&?;), n. [F. billot, dim. of bille. See Billet a stick.] Bullion in the bar or mass.

Bil"low (&?;), n. [Cf. Icel. bylgja billow, Dan. bölge, Sw. bölja; akin to MHG. bulge billow, bag, and to E. bulge. See Bulge.] 1. A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind.

Whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll. Cowper.

2. A great wave or flood of anything. Milton.

Bil"low, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Billowed (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Billowing.] To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate. "The billowing snow." Prior.

Bil"low*y (&?;), a. Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.

And whitening down the many-tinctured stream, Descends the billowy foam. Thomson.

{ Bill"post`er (&?;), Bill"stick"er (&?;), } n. One whose occupation is to post handbills or posters in public places.

Bil"ly (&?;), n. 1. A club; esp., a policeman's club.

2. (Wool Manuf.) A slubbing or roving machine.

Bil"ly*boy` (&?;), n. A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel. [Eng.]

Bil"ly goat` (&?;). A male goat. [Colloq.]

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Bi*lo"bate (b*l"bt or b"l*bt), a. [Pref. bi- + lobate.] Divided into two lobes or segments.

Bi"lobed (b"lbd), a. [Pref. bi- + lobe.] Bilobate.

Bi`lo*ca"tion (&?;), n. [Pref. bi- + location.] Double location; the state or power of being in two places at the same instant; -- a miraculous power attributed to some of the saints. Tylor.

Bi*loc"u*lar (&?;), a. [Pref. bi- + locular: cf. F. biloculaire.] Divided into two cells or compartments; as, a bilocular pericarp. Gray.

Bil"sted (&?;), n. (Bot.) See Sweet gum.

||Bil"tong (&?;), n. [S. African.] Lean meat cut into strips and sun-dried. H. R. Haggard.

Bi*mac"u*late (&?;), a. [Pref. bi- + maculate, a.] Having, or marked with, two spots.