Helen Fenton

Bisque: Definition and part of speech

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Bisque

  1. n. A white soup made of crayfish.
  2. n. Unglazed white porcelain.
  3. n. A point taken by the receiver of odds in the game of tennis; also, an extra innings allowed to a weaker player in croquet.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bissextile: Definition and part of speech

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Bissextile

  1. a. Pertaining to leap year.
  2. n. Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5 h. 48 m. 46 s.) above 365 days. But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year, which is 11 m. 14 s. more than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Biserrate: Definition and part of speech

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Biserrate

  1. a. Serrate on both sides, as some antennae.
  2. a. Doubly serrate, or having the serratures serrate, as in some leaves.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bisexual: Definition and part of speech

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Bisexual

  1. a. Of both sexes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.