Definition of "bilin" [bi•lin]

• Any of various biological pigments formed in many organisms as a metabolic product of certain porphyrins. (noun)

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• "I'll wash the hull kit an 'bilin' of 'em up after supper."
• "While Uncle Eb was giving his views on food, he was hurriedly "bilin '" coffee, frying unlimited flapjacks, and breaking up some crystal cakes of maple sugar, which he melted into a sirup, and poured over them."
• ""They 'uz all birds o' paradise! the whole kit an 'bilin'! by reason 'at this _wah_ a paradise them days, this-yeh whole' Azoo Delta, which you, suh" -- the speaker turned to Gilmore with reviving spleen."