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Independent video game developer
17-Bit is an independent video game developer. The company was founded as Haunted Temple Studios in 2009 by Jake Kazdal, formerly an artist with Sega,
17-Bit
British video game company
venture was created in December 1990 through the merger of British publisher 17-Bit Software and Swedish developer Team 7. At the time, the two companies consisted
Team17
American link management platform
Bitly is a URL shortening service and a link management platform. The company Bitly, Inc. was established in 2008. It is privately held and based in New
Bitly
Computer architecture bit width
computer architecture, 64-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 64 bits wide. Also, 64-bit central processing units (CPU)
64-bit_computing
1940s–1950s British computer
one spare bit, a 10-bit operand (usually a memory address), and one length bit to control whether the instruction used a 17-bit or a 35-bit operand (two
EDSAC
Number of bits used to represent a color
depth, also known as bit depth, is either the number of bits used to indicate the color of a single pixel, or the number of bits used for each color component
Color_depth
Mainframe computer systems made by IBM through the 1950s and early 1960s
8-bit excess-128 exponent and a 27-bit magnitude Double-precision floating-point numbers, introduced on the 7094, have a magnitude sign, a 17-bit excess-65536
IBM_700/7000_series
Vacuum-tube computer system (1954)
12-bit instruction code (with bits 2 and 3 set to 0 to distinguish them from type A instructions), a 2-bit flag field, four unused bits, a 3-bit tag
IBM_704
Computer architecture bit width
computer architecture, 16-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 16 bits (2 octets) wide. Also, 16-bit central processing unit
16-bit_computing
Mainframe computer, 1960s
three-bit opcode (prefix), 15-bit decrement (D), three-bit tag (T), and 15-bit address (Y) A twelve-bit opcode, two-bit flag (F), four unused bits, three-bit
IBM_7090
Video game for the Nintendo 3DS
released in the United States on April 17, 2014 and in Europe on April 24, 2014. It's a sequel to the 2009 released Bit Boy!! for Nintendo's WiiWare service
Bit_Boy!!_Arcade
Interface technology communication architecture
thus has its own (conceptual) symbol encoding consisting of 17-bit symbols. These 17-bit symbols never show up on the wires, because they are first converted
UniPro_protocol_stack
British entrepreneur (born 1970)
part of the December 1990 merger between the British video game publisher 17-Bit Software and the Swedish developer Team 7, forming Team17. She was the company's
Debbie_Bestwick
2015 video game
The Dimensional is a shoot 'em up video game developed and published by 17-Bit. It was released in August 2015 for the PlayStation 4 and October 2015 for
Galak-Z:_The_Dimensional
2013 video game
Skulls of the Shogun is a turn-based tactics video game developed by 17-Bit. The game is inspired by Advance Wars and features turn-based combat between
Skulls_of_the_Shogun
Unit of digital information, usually 8 bits
information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer
Byte
Bit added to a binary string for error detection
A parity bit, or check bit, is a bit added to a string of binary code. Parity bits are a simple form of error detecting code. Parity bits are generally
Parity_bit
Encoding for a sequence of byte values using 36 printable characters
Latin alphabet). Each Base36 digit contains log2(36) ≈ 5.17 bits of information, so six bits is sufficient to represent each digit. Base36 numbers can
Base36
Atari digital I/O chip
generator (8 bits of a 17-bit polynomial counter can be read) Serial I/O port Eight IRQ interrupts By part number: C012294 — Used in all Atari 8-bit computers
POKEY
the 16-bit-wide counterpart of otherwise 8-bit-wide "base" chips with the same three ending digits. Thus e.g. a "7416373" would be the 16-bit-wide equivalent
List of 7400-series integrated circuits
List_of_7400-series_integrated_circuits
Standard formats for transferring time information
encode minutes, and bits 15–17 encode tens of minutes (0–59) Bits 20–23 encode hours, and bits 25–26 encode tens of hours (0–23) Bits 30–33 encode day of
IRIG_timecode
Data protocol for motor vehicles
stuffing bits (5 bits for packets smaller than 6 bytes and 6 bits for packets bigger than 6 bytes). CRC is also size-dependent, set to 17 bits for packets
CAN_FD
64-bit extension of x86 architecture
x86-64 (also known as x86_64, AMD64, Intel 64 and x64) is a 64-bit extension of the x86 instruction set. It was announced in 1999 and first available
X86-64
List of computer processor instructions
Originally, 12-bit instructions included 5 address bits to specify the memory operand, and 9-bit branch destinations. Later revisions added opcode bits, allowing
PIC_instruction_listings
Peer-to-peer file sharing protocol
BitTorrent is a communication protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P), which enables users to distribute data and electronic files over the Internet
BitTorrent
Information transmission rate expressed in bits per second
computing, bit rate (bitrate or as a variable R) is the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time. The bit rate is expressed as bits per
Bit_rate
Vacuum tube computer system, 1959
768 words of 36-bit magnetic-core memory and could execute 42,000 add or subtract instructions per second. It could multiply two 36-bit integers at a rate
IBM_709
Number of bits of information recorded for each digital audio sample
(PCM), bit depth is the number of bits of information in each sample, and it directly corresponds to the resolution of each sample. Examples of bit depth
Audio_bit_depth
Specific software-based key for a computer program
Hash=(Hash\%BitFieldMax)+1} . Where BitFieldMax is the maximal value that may be stored in the bit-field in question, e.g. 1023 for a 10-bit bit-field, and
Product_key
Error-detecting code for detecting data changes
lengths are 9 bits (CRC-8), 17 bits (CRC-16), 33 bits (CRC-32), and 65 bits (CRC-64). A CRC is called an n-bit CRC when its check value is n-bits. For a given
Cyclic_redundancy_check
Series of third-generation computers
first machines in the series are the 16-bit Sigma 2 and the 32-bit Sigma 7; the Sigma 7 was the first 32-bit computer released by SDS. At the time, the
SDS_Sigma_series
Single-board computer designed by the BBC
The Micro Bit (also referred to as BBC Micro Bit or stylized as micro:bit) is an open source hardware ARM-based embedded system designed by the BBC for
Micro_Bit
Family of RISC-based computer architectures
32 bits. M (bits 0–4) is the processor mode bits. T (bit 5) is the Thumb state bit. F (bit 6) is the FIQ disable bit. I (bit 7) is the IRQ disable bit.
Arm_architecture_family
Method of constructing a computer processor
Bit slicing is a technique for constructing a processor from modules of processors of smaller bit width, for the purpose of increasing the word length;
Bit_slicing
Internet routing system
like x.y, where x and y are 16-bit numbers. Numbers of the form 0.y are exactly the old 16-bit AS numbers. The special 16-bit ASN 23456 ("AS_TRANS") was assigned
Autonomous_system_(Internet)
British actor (born 1985)
Maximilian Paul Diarmuid Irons (born 17 October 1985) is an English actor. Following a bit part in the 2004 film Being Julia, he has gone on to major
Max_Irons
Identity document of China
and or-bit",vbokonly+vbinformation,"identity check procedures" id=inputbox("Enter the ID number 15 or 18 before the identity card numbers of 17 or","ID"
Resident_Identity_Card
Information rate that can be transmitted over a given bandwidth
communication system is measured in bit/s/Hz, or, less frequently but unambiguously, in (bit/s)/Hz. It is the net bit rate (useful information rate excluding
Spectral_efficiency
Computer software bug occurring in 2038
Unix epoch (00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970)—and store it in a signed 32-bit integer. When the data type's maximum value is exceeded, the integer will
Year_2038_problem
bytes. The header contains an 8-bit Source Address and a 17-bit Parameter Group Number, as well as a few additional bits. The total bus capacity is approximately
RV-C
Large language model with ternary weights
A 1.58-bit large language model (also known as a ternary LLM) is a type of large language model (LLM) designed to be computationally efficient. It achieves
1.58-bit_large_language_model
1996 song by Gina G
"Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit" is a song recorded by Australian singer and songwriter Gina G, with music composed by Steve Rodway and lyrics written by
Ooh_Aah..._Just_a_Little_Bit
Natural number
can not be represented with 16 bits. Conversely, it is the "first" or smallest positive integer that requires 17 bits. 65536 is the only power of 2 less
65,536
1949 instrumental mambo song by Dámaso Pérez Prado
new song released under the same name on his 1999 debut album, A Little Bit of Mambo. In 2026, Pérez Prado's original recording of the song was selected
Mambo_No._5
Hand tool used for turning screws
interchangeable tips, known as screwdriver bits, analogous to drill bits. This allows a single handle to be used with multiple bits of varying profiles and dimensions
Screwdriver
Technology used in CPUs
The NX bit (no-execute bit) is a processor feature that separates areas of a virtual address space (the memory layout a program uses) into sections for
NX_bit
comparison of BitTorrent clients, which are computer programs designed for peer-to-peer file sharing using the BitTorrent protocol. The BitTorrent protocol
Comparison of BitTorrent clients
Comparison_of_BitTorrent_clients
Soviet home and educational computer
Chișinău, Moldova. Processor: KM1801VM2 1801 series CPU @ 8 MHz, 16 bit data bus, 17 bit address bus Peripheral processor: KM1801VM2 @ 6.25 MHz CPU RAM: 64
UKNC
Microcontroller
RL78 Family is a 16-bit CPU core for embedded microcontrollers of Renesas Electronics introduced in 2010. The RL78 family is an accumulator-based register-bank
RL78
16-bit minicomputer series
The Nova is a series of 16-bit minicomputers released by the American company Data General. The Nova family was very popular in the 1970s and ultimately
Data_General_Nova
Podcast
"LEGO's new "Bits N' Bricks" podcast celebrates 25 years of LEGO video games". HardwareZone Singapore. 2020-12-03. Retrieved 2026-02-17. "Bits N' Bricks"
Bits_N'_Bricks
Sixth and most recent crewed Moon landing
the Moon. When operating, it could only send useful data to Earth in high bit rate, meaning that no other ALSEP experiment could send data then, and limiting
Apollo_17
2009 live album by Amateur Transplants
"First Bit" (5:30) "Second Bit" (5:21) "Third Bit" (4:11) "Fourth Bit" (4:19) "Fifth Bit" (6:00) "Sixth Bit" (5:17) "Seventh Bit" (5:53) "Eighth Bit" (6:05)
In_Theatre
Microprocessor
design implements a 32-bit instruction set, with 32-bit registers and a 16-bit internal data bus. The address bus is 24 bits wide and does not use memory
Motorola_68000
Build automation tool often used for building Linux distributions
BitBake is a task execution engine build automation tool that allows shell and Python tasks to run in parallel yet in order constrained by configured
BitBake
Detachable tool tips used for driving screws
bit is a detachable tip or toolhead used to drive screws, typically with a hand-operated screwdriver, drill, or impact driver. Interchangeable bits allow
Screwdriver_bit
Natural number
highest unsigned (that is, not negative) 32-bit integer, which makes it the highest possible number a 32-bit system can store in memory. Since the prime
4,294,967,295
American musician, actor and comedian
All 145 cast members ranked". Rolling Stone magazine. Retrieved 2019-12-17. Bit players in the "Saturday Night Live '80" replacement crew, which is like
Patrick_Weathers
Audio cassette format developed by Sony
mechanism. Audio sampling is in stereo at 32 kHz with 12 bit nonlinear quantization, corresponding to 17 bit linear quantization. Data written to the tape is
NT_(cassette)
1999 studio album by Lou Bega
A Little Bit of Mambo is the debut studio album by German musician Lou Bega released in 1999, propelled by the success of the single "Mambo No. 5 (A Little
A_Little_Bit_of_Mambo
Base memory unit handled by a computer
data by the instruction set or the hardware of a processor. The number of bits or digits in a word (the word size, word width, or word length) is an important
Word_(computer_architecture)
Computer approximation for real numbers
24-bit binary floating-point number representation with a 7-bit signed exponent, a 17-bit significand (including one implicit bit), and a sign bit. The
Floating-point_arithmetic
Computer architecture bit width
4-bit computing is the use of computer architectures in which integers and other data units are 4 bits wide. 4-bit central processing unit (CPU) and arithmetic
4-bit_computing
American crime drama franchise
Cent. 50 Cent Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions | WIRED, January 17, 2018, archived from the original on January 16, 2022, retrieved January 1
Power_Universe
Video hosting service
BitChute is an alt-tech video hosting service launched by Ray Vahey in January 2017. It describes itself as offering freedom of speech, and is known for
BitChute
64-bit computer number format
FP64 or float64) is a floating-point number format, usually occupying 64 bits in computer memory; it represents a wide range of numeric values by using
Double-precision floating-point format
Double-precision_floating-point_format
Video game series
Bit.Trip, stylized BIT.TRIP, is a series of nine video games developed by Choice Provisions (or under their previous name Gaijin Games) and published by
Bit.Trip
2007 single by Lykke Li
"Little Bit" is a song by Swedish singer Lykke Li from her debut studio album, Youth Novels (2008). Produced by Björn Yttling and co-produced by Lasse
Little_Bit
Standard cutting tool sizes
produced routinely by drill bit manufacturers and stocked by distributors. In the U.S., fractional inch and gauge drill bit sizes are in common use. In
Drill_bit_sizes
processors by generation attempts to present all of Intel's processors from the 4-bit 4004 (1971) to the present high-end offerings. Concise technical data is
List_of_Intel_processors
Microsoft operating system family
for multiprocessing, multi-user systems, a 32-bit kernel without legacy 16-bit considerations, 32-bit memory addressing, portability between different
Windows_NT
System-on-a-chip designed by Apple Inc.
pair of 64-bit ARM-based systems on a chip (SoC) designed by Apple Inc., part of the Apple silicon series. The A19 is used in the iPhone 17 and iPhone
Apple_A19
Horse tack
action of the bit. Some mouthpieces are not allowed in dressage competition. The other parts of the bit are the bit rings on a snaffle bit, and the shanks
Bit_mouthpiece
Character encoding standard
required at least a seven-bit code. The committee considered an eight-bit code, since eight bits (octets) would allow two four-bit patterns to efficiently
ASCII
BitTorrent, FTP and HTTP client
BitComet (originally named SimpleBT client from versions 0.11 to 0.37) is a cross-protocol BitTorrent, HTTP and FTP client written in C++ for Microsoft
BitComet
Mid-1960s 16-bit computer series by Hewlett Packard
The HP 2100 is a series of 16-bit minicomputers that were produced by Hewlett-Packard (HP) from the mid-1960s to early 1990s. Tens of thousands of machines
HP_2100
Earliest electronic computer design
could store 32 words of 17 bits each. Since the delay-line memory was inherently serially organized, the machine logic was also bit-serial as well. Eckert
Vacuum-tube_computer
Computing term meaning changing the state of a bit
Retrieved 2023-10-17. "~ - Arduino Reference". www.arduino.cc. Retrieved 2023-10-17. Bitwise operation Bit error Two's complement Look up bit inversion in
Bit_inversion
2017 video game
Bit City is a 2017 city-building and clicker game developed and published by NimbleBit. In it, the player must generate a steady coin income to build a
Bit_City
2005 single by 50 Cent
"Just a Lil Bit" is the third single from 50 Cent's second album, The Massacre. The song was produced by Scott Storch. Released on May 17, 2005, the single
Just_a_Lil_Bit
Audio exceeding CD capability
High-resolution audio is a term for music files with bit depth greater than 16-bit and sampling frequency higher than 44.1 kHz or 48 kHz used in CD and
High-resolution_audio
Criminal hacking organization
LockBit is a cybercriminal group proposing ransomware as a service (RaaS). Software developed by the group (also called ransomware) enables malicious
LockBit
English television presenter and former model (born 1976)
Celebrity Big Brother (2013–2018), as well as the spin-off show Big Brother's Bit on the Side (2011–2015). She presented the BBC One and ITV1 talent competition
Emma_Willis
Standard for the encryption of electronic data
Rijndael family, each with a block size of 128 bits, but three different key lengths: 128, 192 and 256 bits. AES has been adopted by the US government. It
Advanced_Encryption_Standard
2010 video game
Bit.Trip series of games, serving as the successor to Bit.Trip Beat, Bit.Trip Core and Bit.Trip Void, and as the predecessor to Bit.Trip Fate and Bit
Bit.Trip_Runner
128-bit computer number format
decimal128 is a decimal floating-point number format that occupies 128 bits in memory. Formally introduced in IEEE 754-2008, it is intended for applications
Decimal128 floating-point format
Decimal128_floating-point_format
American computer manufacturer (1957–1998)
ASCII is a 7-bit standard, units-of-8-bits are typically used for machines that support it. An example is the DG Nova 840, which used a 17-bit format, up
Digital_Equipment_Corporation
2010 video game
"Linkin Park 8-Bit Rebellion!". Pocket Gamer. Steel Media Ltd. Archived from the original on February 17, 2023. Retrieved February 17, 2023. Nelson, Jared
8-Bit_Rebellion!
Instructions for the x86 microprocessors
to the ones that are 256-bit extensions of the legacy 128-bit SSE instructions; most are usable on both 128-bit and 256-bit operands. Intel Sandy Bridge
Advanced_Vector_Extensions
Compression scheme
a 36-bit machine word to represent six alphanumeric characters plus two flag bits, thus saving two bits per six characters, because the six bits normally
SQUOZE
palettes used on 16-bit computers, which were primarily manufactured from 1985 to 1995. Due to mixed-bit architectures, the n-bit distinction is not always
List of 16-bit computer color palettes
List_of_16-bit_computer_color_palettes
of 2026, the most recent iPhone models are the iPhone 17, iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max, released on September 19, 2025, and the entry-level
List_of_iPhone_models
Cold War-era air defense command and control computer
sign bit to form addresses, yielding a 17-bit address space. The remainder of the left half word specified the operation. The first three bits after
AN/FSQ-7 Combat Direction Central
AN/FSQ-7_Combat_Direction_Central
Gaming generation from 1993 to 2006
The fifth generation era (also known as the 32-bit era, the 64-bit era, or the 3D era) refers to computer and video games, video game consoles, and handheld
Fifth generation of video game consoles
Fifth_generation_of_video_game_consoles
Decentralized digital cryptocurrency
cryptocurrencies came from cypherpunks Wei Dai (b-money) and Nick Szabo (bit gold) in 1998. In 2004, Hal Finney developed the first currency based on
Bitcoin
Key size for symmetric encryption
computing, 56-bit encryption refers to a key size of fifty-six bits, or seven bytes, for symmetric encryption. While stronger than 40-bit encryption, this
56-bit_encryption
32-bit computer number format
follows: bit 23 = 1 bit 22 = 0.5 bit 21 = 0.25 bit 20 = 0.125 bit 19 = 0.0625 bit 18 = 0.03125 bit 17 = 0.015625 . . bit 6 = 0.00000762939453125 bit 5 = 0
Single-precision floating-point format
Single-precision_floating-point_format
This is a list of commercial video game titles released for Atari 8-bit computers, sorted alphabetically. There are 2183 games on this list. There are
List of Atari 8-bit computer games
List_of_Atari_8-bit_computer_games
Computer file attribute
The archive bit is a file attribute used by CP/M, Microsoft operating systems, OS/2, and AmigaOS. It is used to indicate whether or not the file has been
Archive_bit
DC-free run-length limited line code used by several optical disc formats
Track". 2017. Quote: "Three merging bits separate each sequence, for a total of 17 bits to represent each 8-bit chunk of data." Kees Schouhamer Immink
Eight-to-fourteen_modulation
17 BIT
17 BIT
Surname or Lastname
English
English : metronymic from the medieval female personal name Madde, a form of Maud (see Mould 1) or Magdalen (see Maudlin).James Madison (1751–1836), 4th President of the U.S. (1809–17), was born in VA, the son of a planter. He was descended from John Madison, a ship’s carpenter from Gloucester, England, who had settled in VA in about 1653.
Girl/Female
Indian
Unique
Female
Hebrew
Variant spelling of Hebrew Bithyah, BITYAH means "daughter of God."
Female
Hebrew
Variant spelling of Hebrew Bityah, BITYA means "daughter of God."
Boy/Male
Tamil
Heart bits
Female
English
Anglicized form of Hebrew Bithyah, BITHIAH means "daughter of God." In the bible, this is the name of a daughter of Pharoah.
Female
English
Variant spelling of English Bithiah, BITHIA means "daughter of God."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for an innkeeper, from Middle English, Old French (h)oste ‘host’, ‘guest’.Danish (Høst) : nickname from høst ‘harvest’, ‘autumn’ (see Herbst).French : from Old French ost ‘army’, hence an occupational name for a soldier.Dutch : from the Germanic personal name Austa, meaning ‘east’.German : habitational name from either of two places called Host, near Koblenz and near Bitburg.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Path between trees
Girl/Female
Tamil
Mathisha | மாஂதீஷாÂ
Bitter
Mathisha | மாஂதீஷாÂ
Girl/Female
Tamil
Bitter, A meeting, To find
Girl/Female
Tamil
Bitter
Surname or Lastname
English
English : descriptive nickname for a giant or a large man, from Middle English golias ‘giant’, from the Hebrew personal name Golyat Goliath. In the Bible Goliath was the champion of the Philistines, who stood ‘six cubits and a span’; he was defeated in single combat by the shepherd boy David (I Samuel 17), who killed him with a stone from his sling. There is unlikely to be any connection with the English vocabulary word gully (from Old French goulet ‘neck of a bottle’), which is not attested in this sense before the 17th century.Perhaps an altered spelling of French Goulley, a variant of Goulet.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Maltby in Cleveland, Lincolnshire, and North and South Yorkshire, or Mautby in Norfolk, all named with the Old Norse byname Malti ‘sharp’, ‘bitter’ + Old Norse býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’.
Surname or Lastname
Jewish
Jewish : unexplained.English : habitational name from a place in Gloucestershire named Bitton. The place takes its name from the Boyd river, a Celtic river name of uncertain origin + Old English tūn ‘settlement’, ‘farmstead’.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : occupational name for a maker and seller of spurs, bits, and other small metal attachments to harness and tackle. Compare Lorimer.
Girl/Female
Tamil
Bitter, A meeting, To find
Girl/Female
Tamil
Bunch of flower
Female
Hebrew
(בִּתְיָה) Hebrew name BITHYAH means "daughter of God." In the bible, this is the name of a daughter of Pharoah.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : metronymic from the personal name Sara. In the Bible this is the name of the wife of Abraham. According to the Book of Genesis she was originally called Sarai (said to mean ‘contentious’ in Hebrew), but had her name changed by God to the more auspicious Sarah ‘princess’ in token of a greater blessing (Genesis 17:15, ‘And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be’).Muslim : from an Arabic personal name, SÄra, of Biblical origin, as in 1 above.
17 BIT
17 BIT
Girl/Female
British, English
Dawn
Girl/Female
Egyptian
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Estimator
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Malayalam, Marathi, Mythological, Sindhi
An Ancient King
Boy/Male
Tamil
Prakriti | பà¯à®°à®¾à®•à®°à®¤à®¿Â
Original, Nature, The personification of bralunan or the supreme spirit
Male
Irish
Rare Irish variant form of German Herbert, HARBIN means "bright army."
Boy/Male
Indian
Thought, Imagination, Ecstasy, Mirth, Devotion
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from the personal name Clement.German, Dutch, and Danish : from the personal name Clemens (see Clement).Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name, Mark Twain, was descended from VA stock on his father’s side, from a Robert Clemens, who was born in Warwickshire, England, in 1634.
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
Handsome Comely
Girl/Female
French
Jewel.
17 BIT
17 BIT
17 BIT
17 BIT
17 BIT
n.
One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames.
n.
The process of bituminizing.
n.
A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds.
n.
A small square box, made either of parchment or of black calfskin, containing slips of parchment or vellum on which are written the scriptural passages Exodus xiii. 2-10, and 11-17, Deut. vi. 4-9, 13-22. They are worn by Jews on the head and left arm, on week-day mornings, during the time of prayer.
n.
The eleventh month of the French republican calendar, -- commencing July 19, and ending August 17. See the Note under Vendemiaire.
a.
Producing bitumen.
n.
A bird referred to in the Bible (Lev. xi. 18and Deut. xiv. 17) as unclean, probably the Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus).
a.
Alt. of Hunger-bitten
v.
Four; esp., four herrings; a cast. See Cast, n., 17.
n.
A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits.
v. t.
To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Bituminize
v. t.
To treat or impregnate with bitumen; to cement with bitumen.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Bituminate
imp. & p. p.
of Bituminize
n.
See Charge, n., 17.
a.
Having the qualities of bitumen; compounded with bitumen; containing bitumen.
n.
A symbol denoting seventeen units, as 17, or xvii.
a.
Consisting of, or containing, lime and bitumen.