(finance) In a money market, the part of a monetary value before the decimal point.

(transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To bear; to endure; to tolerate. / (transitive, archaic) To face with resistance; to encounter; to withstand.

(anatomy) Any muscle having two heads. / Specifically, the biceps brachii, the flexor of the elbow. / (informal) The upper arm, especially the collective muscles of the upper arm.

(biology) A division into two branches. / (by extension) Any place where one thing divides into two. / The act of bifurcating; branching or dividing in two.

A nickname for New York City.

One who loves books. / One who collects books, not necessarily due to any interest in reading them.

A section of a written work containing citations, not quotations, to all the books referred to in the work. / A list of books or documents relevant to a particular subject or author.

(derogatory) A fundamentalist Christian preacher, or other fervent Christian, who is seen to take every opportunity to talk about Christianity and attempt to convert those around them.

(optics, anatomy) Having both sides concave

(astronomy) The cosmic event that marks the beginning of time and the rapid expansion of space for the visible universe. The evolution of the universe since that beginning point is described by the Big Bang Theory.