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.
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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.
A home-made woolen blanket without nap.
A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily.
Any of several voracious pikelike marine fishes allied to the gray mullets, constituting the genus Sphyr/na and family Sphyr/nid/. The great barracuda (Sphyr/na barracuda) of the West Indies, Florida, etc., is often six feet or more long, and as dangerous as a shark. In Cuba its flesh is reputed to be poisonous. Sphyr/na Argentea of the Pacific coast and Sphyr/na sphyr/na of Europe are smaller species, and are used as food.
An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or watercourse to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile.
A remarkable Australian fresh-water ganoid fish of the genus Ceratodus. An Australian river fish (Osteoglossum Leichhardtii).
A ravine caused by heavy rains or a watercourse.
A resin, called also galipot.
One guilty of barratry.
Tainted with, or constituting, barratry.
The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels.
To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
any of several large cacti native to the southwestern U. S. and Mexico, having a short cylindrical form with deep vertical ribs and bearing sharp spines. They are classed in the genera Ferocactus and Echinocactus.
A blackish fish (Hyperglyphe perciformis) of New England waters.
The quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold.
A cheap drinking and dancing establishment.
Having a barrel; -- used in composition; as, a double-barreled gun.
A tract of barren land.
Unfruitfully; unproductively.
The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness.
An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family (Epimedium alpinum), having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific.
A kind of cap formerly worn by soldiers; -- called also barret cap. Also, the flat cap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics.
a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (such as those arising from temperature fluctuations); a thermal cymoscope.
To fortify or close with a barricade or with barricades; to stop up, as a passage; to obstruct; as, the workmen barricaded the streets of Paris.
One who constructs barricades.
See Barricade.
A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy.
A large, dark-colored, South American monkey, of the genus Lagothrix, having a long prehensile tail.
the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto.
The act of closing the doors of a schoolroom against a schoolmaster; -- a boyish mode of rebellion in schools.
In Spain and countries colonized by Spain, a village, ward, or district outside a town or city to whose jurisdiction it belongs; in Spanish-speaking areas of cities in the United States, it is a neighborhood, ward, or quarter inside a town.
Counselor at law; a counsel admitted to plead at the bar, and undertake the public trial of causes, as distinguished from an attorney or solicitor. See Attorney.
A room containing a bar or counter at which liquors are sold.
A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead; a tumulus.
A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1593.
A diminutive of the bar, having one fourth its width.
Traversed by barrulets or small bars; -- said of the field.
Divided into bars; -- said of the field.
The common perch. See 1st Bass.
an abbreviation of baronet.
A barkeeper.
The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods.
One who barters.
Barter.
A place of shelter for cattle.
A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.
A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchr/tien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.
The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself.
See Bertram.
A passage into a field or yard, closed by bars made to take out of the posts.
Horizontally.
A red wood of a leguminous tree (Baphia nitida), from Angola and the Gabon in Africa. It is used as a dyewood, and also for ramrods, violin bows and turner's work.
the point representing the mean position of the matter in a body.
Of or pertaining to the center of gravity. See Barycentric calculus, under Calculus.
any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions; a hadron with a baryon number of +1.
Difficulty of speech.
The heavy interior portion of the earth, within the lithosphere.
An oxide of barium (or barytum); a heavy earth with a specific gravity above 4.
Barium sulphate, generally called heavy spar or barite. See Barite.
Of or pertaining to baryta.
A mineral of a white or gray color, occurring massive or crystallized. It is a compound of the carbonates of barium and calcium.
The metal barium. See Barium.
Low relief; sculpture, the figures of which project less than half of their true proportions; -- called also bass-relief and basso-rilievo. See Alto-rilievo.
Relating to, or forming, the base.
Having the nerves radiating from the base; -- said of leaves.
A rock of igneous origin, consisting of augite and triclinic feldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also bottle-green particles of olivine frequently disseminated.
Pertaining to basalt; formed of, or containing, basalt; as basaltic lava.
In the form of basalt; columnar.
Formed like basalt; basaltiform.
Same as Basil, a sheepskin.
Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal.
A bluestocking; a literary woman.
A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a visor.
In mechanics, an apparatus on the principle of the seesaw, in which one end rises as the other falls.
To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower.
a unit of double-stranded DNA or RNA consisting of two complementary bases on opposing strands of the double-stranded polynucleotide, bound together by hydrogen bonds and other non-covalent chemical forces. The bases comprising the base pairs are adenine, thymine, cytidine, and guanine. In normal DNA, the base adenine on one strand of DNA pairs with thymine on the opposite strand, and cytosine on one strand pairs with guanine on the opposite strand. The term base pair usually includes the sugar (ribose or deoxyribose) and the phosphate bound to each base to form a nucleotide unit. One base pair is sometimes used as a unit of length or size for DNA, and in this usage is abbreviated bp; as, a 100-bp fragment of DNA. A length of 1000 base pairs is a kilobase pair or kbp.
the initial price of something (goods or services) without the additional charges that may be added, such as handling or shipping charges, sales tax, optional equipment charges, etc.
A furnace or stove in which the fuel is contained in a hopper or chamber, and is fed to the fire as the lower stratum is consumed.
The secondary, inferior, or rear courtyard of a large house; the outer court of a castle.
causing formation of an alkali.
A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds (four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striking the ball.
A board, or other woodwork, carried round the walls of a room and touching the floor, to form a base and protect the plastering; -- also called washboard (in England), mopboard, and scrubboard.
Born out of wedlock.
Having a base, or having as a base; supported; as, broad-based.
A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century.
Without a base; having no foundation or support.
an imaginary line or standard by which things are measured or compared; as, they established a baseline for the budget.
In a base manner; with despicable meanness; dishonorably; shamefully.
The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. (See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively.
The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness.
See Bascinet.
a forceful blow, especially one that does damage to its target.
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