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.

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.

A male voice, the compass of which partakes of the common bass and the tenor, but which does not descend as low as the one, nor rise as high as the other. A person having a voice of such range. The viola di gamba, now entirely disused.

One of the elements, belonging to the alkaline earth group; a metal having a silver-white color, and melting at a very high temperature. It is difficult to obtain the pure metal, from the facility with which it becomes oxidized in the air. Atomic weight, 137. Symbol, Ba. Its oxide called baryta.

The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog; a similar sound made by some other animals.

Same as Barkentine.