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Bish"op sleeve` (&?;). A wide sleeve, once worn by women.

Bish"op's length` (&?;). A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 by 56.

Bish"op-stool` (&?;), n. A bishop's seat or see.

Bish"op's-weed` (&?;), n. (Bot.) (a) An umbelliferous plant of the genus Ammi. (b) Goutweed (Ægopodium podagraria).

Bish"op's-wort` (&?;), n. (Bot.) Wood betony (Stachys betonica); also, the plant called fennel flower (Nigella Damascena), or devil-in-a-bush.

Bis"ie (&?;), v. t. To busy; to employ. [Obs.]

Bi*sil"i*cate (&?;), n. (Min. Chem.) A salt of metasilicic acid; -- so called because the ratio of the oxygen of the silica to the oxygen of the base is as two to one. The bisilicates include many of the most common and important minerals.

Bisk (&?;), n. [F. bisque.] Soup or broth made by boiling several sorts of flesh together. King.

Bisk, n. [F. bisque.] (Tennis) See Bisque.

{ Bi*smare" (&?;), Bi*smer" } (&?;), n. [AS. bismer.] Shame; abuse. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Bis"mer (&?;), n. 1. A rule steelyard. [Scot.]

2. (Zoöl.) The fifteen-spined (Gasterosteus spinachia).

||Bis*mil"lah (&?;), interj. [Arabic, in the name of God!] An adjuration or exclamation common among the Mohammedans. [Written also Bizmillah.]

Bis"mite (&?;), n. (Min.) Bismuth trioxide, or bismuth ocher.

Bis"muth (&?;), n. [Ger. bismuth, wismuth: cf. F. bismuth.] (Chem.) One of the elements; a metal of a reddish white color, crystallizing in rhombohedrons. It is somewhat harder than lead, and rather brittle; masses show broad cleavage surfaces when broken across. It melts at 507° Fahr., being easily fused in the flame of a candle. It is found in a native state, and as a constituent of some minerals. Specific gravity 9.8. Atomic weight 207.5. Symbol Bi.

Chemically, bismuth (with arsenic and antimony is intermediate between the metals and nonmetals; it is used in thermo-electric piles, and as an alloy with lead and tin in the fusible alloy or metal. Bismuth is the most diamagnetic substance known.

Bismuth glance, bismuth sulphide; bismuthinite. -- Bismuth ocher, a native bismuth oxide; bismite.

Bis"muth*al (&?;), a. Containing bismuth.

Bis"muth*ic (&?;), a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to bismuth; containing bismuth, when this element has its higher valence; as, bismuthic oxide.

Bis`muth*if"er*ous (&?;), a. [Bismuth + -ferous.] Containing bismuth.

{ Bis"muth*ine (&?;), Bis"muth*in*ite (&?;), } n. Native bismuth sulphide; -- sometimes called bismuthite.

Bis"muth*ous (&?;), a. Of, or containing, bismuth, when this element has its lower valence.

Bis"muth*yl` (&?;), n. (Min.) Hydrous carbonate of bismuth, an earthy mineral of a dull white or yellowish color. [Written also bismuthite.]

Bi"son (b"sn; 277), n. [L. bison, Gr. bi`swn, a wild ox; akin to OHG. wisunt, wisant, G. wisent, AS. wesend, Icel. vsundr: cf. F. bison.] (Zoöl.) (a) The aurochs or European bison. (b) The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers.

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Bi*spi"nose (b*sp"ns), a. [Pref. bi- + spinose.] (Zoöl.) Having two spines.

||Bisque (&?;), n. [A corruption of biscuit.] Unglazed white porcelain.

Bisque, n. [F.] A point taken by the receiver of odds in the game of tennis; also, an extra innings allowed to a weaker player in croquet.