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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.
Prevented from growing, by having the bark too firm or close.
One who keeps or tends a bar for the sale of liquors.
Made of bark.
A threemasted vessel, having the foremast square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc.] See Illust. in Append.
One who strips trees of their bark.
A tanhouse.
Destitute of bark.
Covered with, or containing, bark.
A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky.
Liquor made from barley; strong ale.
An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley, or other grain, in which some of the party attempt to catch others who run from a goal.
A grain or /corn/ of barley.
The lap or bosom.
A girl or woman who attends the customers of a bar, as in a tavern or beershop.
Formerly, a local judge among miners; now, an officer of the barmote.
Apron.
Unreal; illusory.
One who proffers some illusory advantage or benefit. Also used as an adj.: Barmecidal.
A court held in Derbyshire, in England, for deciding controversies between miners.
Full of barm or froth; in a ferment.
A child. See Bairn.
A member of a religious order, named from St. Barnabas.
An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him.
covered with barnacles.
A member of the radical section of the Democratic party in New York, about the middle of the 19th century, which was hostile to extension of slavery, public debts, corporate privileges, etc., and supported Van Buren against Cass for president in 1848; -- opposed to Hunker.
An opaque adjustable flap on a lamp fixture; used in photography to cut off light from particular areas.
The quantity that a barn will hold.
To travel from place to place, making brief stops.
An itinerant theatrical player who plays in barns when a theatre is lacking; hence, an inferior actor, or one who plays in the country away from the larger cities.
A yard belonging to a barn.
See Baroque.
An aneroid barometer for use with accompanying graphic diagrams and printed directions designed to aid mariners to interpret the indications of the barometer so as to determine the existence of a violent storm at a distance of several hundred miles.
A tracing, usually made by the barograph, showing graphically the variations of atmospheric pressure for a given time.
An instrument for recording automatically the variations of atmospheric pressure.
A form or mode of syllogism of which the first proposition is a universal affirmative, and the other two are particular negatives.
The science of weight or gravity.
An instrument for ascertaining the weight and length of a newborn infant.
An instrument for determining the weight or pressure of the atmosphere, and hence for judging of the probable changes of weather, or for ascertaining the height of any ascent.
Pertaining to the barometer; made or indicated by a barometer; as, barometric changes; barometrical observations.
By means of a barometer, or according to barometric observations.
A form of barometer so constructed as to inscribe of itself upon paper a record of the variations of atmospheric pressure.
The art or process of making barometrical measurements.
The woolly-skinned rhizoma or rootstock of a fern (Dicksonia barometz), which, when specially prepared and inverted, somewhat resembles a lamb; -- called also Scythian lamb.
same as baranduki; the terrestrial Siberian squirrel.
A baron's wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title in her own right; as, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners.
State or rank of a baronet.
The rank or patent of a baronet.
A kind of cutting weapon similar to a cleaver, with a thick back and thin razorlike edge, used by the Moros of the Philippine Islands.
Pertaining to a baron or a barony.
The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron.
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, an artistic style common in the 17th century, characterized by the use of complex and elaborate ornamentation, curved rather than straight lines, and, in music a high degree of embellishment.
Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.
Pertaining to, or determined by, the baroscope.
An instrument for recording both pressure and temperature, as of the atmosphere.
A four-wheeled carriage, with a falling top, a seat on the outside for the driver, and two double seats on the inside arranged so that the sitters on the front seat face those on the back seat.
A kind of light barouche.
A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field.
Same as 3d Bark, n.
A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant.
To live or lodge in barracks.
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