Bergamot: A fruit which was originally produced by ingrafting a branch of a citron or lemon-tree upon the stock of a peculiar kind of pear, called the bergamot pear.
Biased: Cut diagonally from one corner to another of a square or rectangular piece of cloth.
Bias pieces: Triangular pieces cut as above mentioned.
Bituminous: Containing bitumen, which is an inflammable mineral substance, resembling tar or pitch in its properties and uses. Among different bituminous substances, the names naphtha and petrolium have been given to those which are fluid, maltha, to that which has the consistence of pitch, and asphaltum to that which is solid.
Blight: A disease in plants by which they are blasted, or prevented from producing fruit.
Blonde lace: Lace made of silk.
Blood heat: The temperature which the blood is always found to maintain, or ninety-eight degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer.
Blue vitriol: Sulphate of copper.
Blunts: Needles of a short and thick shape, distinguished from Sharps, which are long and slender.
Booking: A kind of thin carpeting or coarse baize.