billfold, n. wallet, folding purse, purse, pocket-book; card case, credit card container; money clip; money belt.
billowy, adj. surging, swelling, heaving, waving, undulating; rolling, rising, tossing; rippling, undulant, swirling; rising and falling, ebbing and flowing,
bimonthly, adj., adv. bimestrial, Obs. bimensal, every two months; semimonthly, fortnightly, twice a month.
bin, n. box, can, coffer, canister, case, casket, Brit. caddy; hutch, chest, cupboard; hamper, basket, crate, pannier; receptacle, container, hold; enclosure, stall, pen, crib.
bind, v. 1. fasten, secure, tie, tie up, bundle, colligate, truss, wrap; join, unite, connect, encircle, gird, attach; lace, entwine, plait, interlace, weave, interlock; buckle, hook.
2. bandage, tape, dress, wrap, swathe.
3. strap, chain, moor, hitch, lash, tether, hobble, hopple, fetter, trammel, pinion, shackle, gyre; manacle, handcuff; leash, bridle, muzzle; chafe, choke, hamper.
4. hold, hold fast, grip, stick, stick together, adhere, glue, cement, paste, conglutinate, lute; cohere, consolidate, set, harden, solidify, congeal, gel, agglutinate, gum; clog, compact, fuse, coalesce; thicken, cake, clot, coagulate, curdle.
5. require, prescribe, assign; astrict, engage, oblige, obligate; restrict, constrict, constrain, force, compel, impel, press, enforce; inhibit, encumber, cumber, burden, yoke.
6. edge, border, hem, trim, purfle, purl.
-n. 7. Informal, quandary, dilemma, predicament, Inf. double bind, Inf catch-22, Inf. Hobson's choice, impasse, stand-off.
biography, n. life story, life, life history, Inf. bio; memoir, memoirs, recollections, adventures, fortunes; account, history, record; autobiography, filmography, psychobiography,
bird, n. 1. flier, fledgling, cageling, fowl, bird of prey; songbird, warbler, songster.
2. Slang, eccentric, Inf. character, SI. freak, SI. nut, SI. weirdo, SI. whacko.
3. birds of a feather friends, cohorts, cronies, brothers, colleagues; gang, group.
4. for the birds Slang, ridiculous, absurd, preposterous, unbelievable, laughable; contemptuous, unworthy, reprehensible.
5. the bird Slang, disapproval, hissing, booing, scoffing, ridicule, Inf. Bronx cheer, Inf. raspberry.
birth, n. 1. childbirth, bearing, delivery, parturition, confinement. See - bearing (def. 2).
2. background, parentage, line, lineage, descent, nativity, origin, race, extraction, derivation; ancestry, family, house, affiliation, blood, blood line, strain, stock; pedigree, genealogy, stirps; heritage, birthright, patrimony, legacy.
3. origin, beginnings, start, source, fountainhead. See - beginning (defs. 2, 3).
4. give birth to a. bear a child, bring forth, deliver. See - bear1 (def. 1). b. initiate, originate, discover, invent, spawn. See - begin (def. 3).
birthday, n. day of birth, natal day, anniversary; birthday party, celebration, commemoration,
birthmark, n. blemish, patch, discoloration, disfigurement, mole, nevus.