A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle.
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Furnished with, or bearing, banners.
A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.
an order that bans something.
same as banister.
The act of expulsion.
A kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; -- used in Scotland and the northern counties of England.
A battle in which the Scots under Robert the Bruce defeated the English and assured the independence of Scotland.
Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in a church, or other place prescribed by law, in order that any person may object, if he knows of just cause why the marriage should not take place.
To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast.
Eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment).
A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.
One who banquets; one who feasts or makes feasts.
A supernatural being supposed to warn a family of the approaching death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice, as under the windows of the house.
A small fish, the three-spined stickleback.
A variety of small barnyard fowl, with feathered legs, probably brought from Bantam, a district of Java.
The wild ox of Java (Bibos Banteng).
The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good-humored raillery; pleasantry.
One who banters or rallies.
A method of reducing corpulence by avoiding food containing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; -- so called from William Banting of London.
A young or small child; an infant.
Of or pertaining to the Bantu language group Bantu (definition 2); as, Bantu languages.
An East Indian insectivorous mammal of the genus Tupaia.
A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.
Lit., May you live ten thousand years; -- used in salutation of the emperor and as a battle cry.
A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia.
An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites.
same as baptize.
A genus of North American plants with showy pealike flowers and an inflated pod.
The act of baptizing; the application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is performed by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring.
Pertaining to baptism; as, baptismal vows.
In a baptismal manner.
Of or for baptism; baptismal.
Baptistic.
In early times, a separate building, usually polygonal, used for baptismal services. Small churches were often changed into baptisteries when larger churches were built near. A part of a church containing a font and used for baptismal services.
Capable of being baptized; fit to be baptized.
Baptism.
To administer the sacrament of baptism to.
The act of baptizing.
One who baptizes.
To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.
An international, interdenominational organization of Bible classes of young men; -- so named in allusion to the Hebrew word Berachah (Meaning blessing) occurring in 2 Chron. xx. 26 and 1 Chron. xii.
The pressure of one dyne per square centimeter; -- used as a unit of pressure.
the inability to estimate the weight of an object.
The terrestrial Siberian squirrel (Eutamius sibiricus).
A soft fabric with a kind of basket weave and a diapered pattern.
Armor for a horse. Same as 2d Bard, n., 1.
See Barbican.
A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong, having a ditch and drawbridge of its own.
See Barbicanage.
Money paid for the support of a barbican.
Of or pertaining to Barbados. A native of Barbados.
A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc.
The first word in certain mnemonic lines which represent the various forms of the syllogism. It indicates a syllogism whose three propositions are universal affirmatives.
a genus of biennial or perennial herbs of north temperate regions: winter cress.
Barbaric in form or style; as, barbaresque architecture.
Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations.
Of, or from, barbarian nations; foreign; -- often with reference to barbarous nations of east.
the act or process of barbarizing; an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized.
An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness.
The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization.
the act or process of barbarizing; an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized.
To make barbarous.
Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.
In a barbarous manner.
The quality or state of being barbarous; barbarity; barbarism.
The countries on the north coast of Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic. A Barbary horse; a barb. a kind of pigeon.
a West Indian shrub or small tree (Jacquinia keyensis) having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood.
A European bat (Barbastellus communis), with hairy lips.
Bearded; beset with long and weak hairs.
Having barbed points.
To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron.
Cooked on a barbecue.
Roasting a large piece of meat on a grill or a revolving spit out of doors over an open fire.
Furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire.
A bar to which heavy discs are attached at each end; -- it is used for weightlifting exercises.
Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point.
Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs.
A storm accompanied by driving ice spicules formed from sea water, esp. one occurring on the Gulf of St. Lawrence; -- so named from the cutting ice spicules.
A fop.
A shrub of the genus Berberis, common along roadsides and in neglected fields. Berberis vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red berries are made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root.
a pole with red and white spiral stripes; -- usually found outside a barbershop.
a shop where a barber works, especially one where men can get their hair cut.
A variety of small dog, having long curly hair. A bird of the family Bucconid/, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa. A larva that feeds on aphids.
A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet.
One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers.
A variety of paralysis, peculiar to India and the Malabar coast; -- considered by many to be the same as beriberi in a chronic form.
Having a beard; bearded; hairy.
An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.
See Barbel.
A paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in relief.
Barbarian.
A popular song or melody sung by Venetian gondoliers. A piece of music composed in imitation of such a song.
A vessel for freight; -- used in the Mediterranean.
The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse.
Of or pertaining to bards, or their poetry.
An Italian marble of which the principal varieties occur in the neighborhood of Carrara and in Corsica. It commonly shows a dark gray or bluish ground traversed by veins.
Pertaining to, or written by, a bard or bards.
The system of bards; the learning and maxims of bards.
An inferior bard.
The state of being a bard.
Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.
the absolute minimum necessary.
completely naked.
having only the absolute minimum necessary; having only the essential components.
wearing no covering for the breasts or featuring such nudity.
Having the legs bare.
On the bare back of a horse, without using a saddle; as, to ride bareback.
Having the back uncovered; as, a barebacked horse.
A very lean person; one whose bones show through the skin.
With the face uncovered; not masked.
Openly; shamelessly.
The quality of being barefaced; shamelessness; assurance; audaciousness.
With the feet bare; without shoes or stockings.
Having the feet bare.
A gauzelike fabric for ladies' dresses, veils, etc. of worsted, silk and worsted, or cotton and worsted.
Having bare hands.
Having the head uncovered; as, a bareheaded girl.
Without covering; nakedly.
Having the neck bare.
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