See Also: bivium(medicine)
bivium(dictionary)

hoosegow (iou) and bivium (iou)


hoosegow (iou)



hoosegow noun. US slang. E20.
[S. Amer. or Mexican Spanish juzgao = juzgado tribunal from Latin judicatum pa. pple of judicare JUDGE verb.]
A prison.
W. Wharton I found a corpse..I thought..I might spend the night in the hoosegow.

bivium (iou)



bivium noun. L19.
[Latin = place where two ways meet, formed as BI- + via way: see -IUM.]
Zoology. The two posterior ambulacra of an echinoderm (dorsal in a holothurian). Cf. TRIVIUM 2.