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Bild [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. preterit tense bilded, bilt; participle passive id.

2. To construct; to erect; to set up and finish; as, to bild a house or ship; to bild a wall. [This is the true orthography; the common spelling is incorrect. See Build .]

Bildad Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

the Shuhite, one of Job’s friends, thought by some to have descended from Shuah, the son of Abraham, by Keturah, Job ii, 11; viii, xviii, xxv.

Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary
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Bilderdijk Encyclopedia Britannica

BILDERDIJK, Willem, a modern Dutch poet, by some considered to be the most eminent that his country has ‘ produced, was born at Amsterdam in 1756. In 1776, after completing a wide course of study at Leyden University, he gained the prize from the Leyden Society of Art for his poem on the Influence of Poetry on States and Governments. In the following year he gained another prize for his poem Love of Fatherland, and in 1779 he translated the Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles. In 1786 he left Holland on account of the disturbed state of public affairs, and after residing some time in Germany crossed to England, where he remained till 1806. Returning then to his native country he was received with great favour by the new king Louis Napoleon, who made him president of the recently founded Institute of Holland. He died on the 18th December 1831. His finest poetical works are the Buitenleven, or Rural Life, a free imitation of Delille; De Mensch, similarly taken from Pope; Die Ziekte der Geleerden, the Maladies of the Learned; Die Ondergang der eerste Wereld, the Destruction of the First World. Some of his dramatic and epic poems are also highly esteemed. His second wife, besides some original work, translated the Roderick of Southey, who was very intimate with Bilderdijk, and resided for some time with him.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 3, p. 672
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Bildstein [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Agalmatolite, or figure-stone. A massive mineral, with sometimes a slaty structure; of a color gray, brown, flesh red, sometimes spotted, or with blue veins. It fuses into a transparent glass. Brongniart calls it steatite pagodite, from its coming from China in grotesque figures.

2. This mineral resembles steatite in its physical characters, but differs from it essentially in its composition. It is soft, easily cut with a knife, and reducible to a fine unctuous powder.

Bildstein [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Same as Agalmatolite.