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Rh *biforalis:—with two doors or shutters.
 * biga:— a two-wheeled cart; its load. "Anglice, a wagon," in a deed temp. Jac. I.
 * bigarius:— a carter.
 * bigata:—a cart load.
 * bigera:—a doublet.
 * bigustrum:—a primrose.
 * bilagines:—bye-laws.
 * bilheta:—a bill; a billet.
 * bilettum:—a billet.
 * bilinguis:—(of a jury) part English and part foreign.
 * billa:—a bill.
 * billetum:—a billet; a stake.
 * billia:—a branch; a post.
 * billio:—money of copper, or copper and silver; bullion.
 * billus:—a staff or stick.
 * bilneta:—a passport.
 * bina:—a pair-horse cart.
 * bindum:—a bundle; a bind of eels is 250; a stalk of hops; used also for skins.
 * binnarium:—a fishpond, an error for vivarium (?).
 * bino:—a ploughtail; a cart pole.
 * bipalium:—a spade.
 * birrettum:—a thin close-fitting cap; a coif.
 * bisacuta:—a two-headed axe; a black bill, a twybill.
 * bisanhus:—a besant, a gold coin, first issued by the emperors of Byzantium, worth about a ducat; a bezant in heraldry.
 * bisantius albus:—a silver besant, worth about 2s.
 * bisantius de plata:—The same.
 * biscoctus, bisvotus:—biscuit.
 * bisius. See bisus.
 * bisquetta:—part of a castle.
 * bissa:—a hind.
 * bisus:—lawn; cambric.
 * bisus panis:—brown bread.
 * bivernagium:—second crop.
 * bizachius:—a baselard, a cutlass.
 * bizantium. See bisantius.
 * bladarius:—a cornchandler.
 * bladum:—corn.
 * blanchetta, blanchetum:—a woollen garment worn under armour.
 * blanchetus:—a blanket.
 * blanchiatura:—reduction of base money to its true value.
 * bland:—white money, sterling.
 * blancum:—a silver coin, worth 8d., coined by Henry V. in France.
 * blancum argentum:—money tested at the Exchequer as to its fineness.
 * blancum firme:—blanch farm.
 * blandella:—a cloak; a blanket.
 * blanhornum:—a horn. (A.-S. blauhorn.)
 * blaserius:—an incendiary.
 * blaudius. See blodeus.
 * blaunchetta. See blanchetta.
 * blaundella. See blandella.
 * blendus. See bluedius.
 * blestia:—turf.