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.

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.

The state of being bare.

A Berserker, or Norse warrior who fought without armor, or shirt of mail. Hence, adverbially: Without shirt of mail or armor.

An instrument for determining the delicacy of the sense of pressure.

Same as Calico bass.

Full of obstructions.

To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another.

The party to a contract who receives, or agrees to receive, the property sold.

One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor.

One who makes a bargain, or contracts with another; esp., one who sells, or contracts to sell, property to another.

A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.

A vergeboard.

A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable.

A bargeman.

a needlepoint stitch that produces zigzag lines.

The man who manages a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.

The proprietor or manager of a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.

The manager of a barge.

A goblin, in the shape of a large dog, portending misfortune.

Baryta.

Of or pertaining to weight, esp. to the weight or pressure of the atmosphere as measured by the barometer.

A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes.

A little cask, or something resembling one.

Native sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular), also in granular form, and in compact massive forms resembling marble. It has a high specific gravity, and hence is often called heavy spar. It is a common mineral in metallic veins.

See Barytone.