1. A plant of the genus berberis, common in hedges; called in England, pipperidge bush. The berries are used in housewifery, and are deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, especially the bark of the root. This plant is pernicious to wheat, the ears of which will not fill, if within the effluvia of the plant; and the influence of this has been known to extend three or four hundred yards. NWAD BARBERRY.2
2. The Bucco, a genus of birds found in the warm climates of both continents. NWAD BARBET.2
3. A dog, so called from his long hair. NWAD BARBET.3
1. A poet and a singer among the ancient Celts; one whose occupation was to compose and sing verses, in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men. The bards used an instrument of music like a lyre or guitar, and not only praised the brave, but reproached the cowardly. NWAD BARD.2
2. In modern usage, a poet. NWAD BARD.3
1. Naked, without covering; as, the arm is bare; the trees are bare. NWAD BARE.2
2. With the head uncovered, from respect. NWAD BARE.3
3. Plain; simple; unadorned; without the polish of refined manners. NWAD BARE.4
4. Laid open to view; detected; no longer concealed. NWAD BARE.5
5. Poor; destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished. NWAD BARE.6
I have made Esau bare. Jeremiah 49:10. NWAD BARE.7
6. Alone; unaccompanied. NWAD BARE.8
7. Thread-bare; much worn. NWAD BARE.9
8. Wanting clothes; or ill supplied with garments. NWAD BARE.10
Under bare poles, at sea, signifies having no sail set. NWAD BARE.11
It is often followed by of; as, the country is bare of money. NWAD BARE.12
To strip off the covering; to make naked; as, to bare the breast. NWAD BARE.14
1. With the face uncovered; not masked. NWAD BAREFACED.2
2. Undisguised; unreserved; without concealment; hence shameless; impudent; audacious; as a barefaced falsehood. NWAD BAREFACED.3
With the feet bare; without shoes and stockings. 2 Samuel 15:30; Isaiah 20:2-4. NWAD BAREFOOT.2
2. Stipulation: interested dealing. NWAD BARGAIN.2
3. Purchase or the thing purchased. NWAD BARGAIN.3
4. In popular language, final event; upshot. NWAD BARGAIN.4
We must make the best of a bad bargain. NWAD BARGAIN.5
To sell bargains, is a vulgar phrase. NWAD BARGAIN.6
To strike a bargain, is to ratify an agreement, originally by striking, or shaking hands. The Latin ferire foedus, may represent a like ceremony, unless it refers to the practice of killing a victim, at the solemn ratification of oaths. NWAD BARGAIN.7
Bargain and sale, in law, a species of conveyance, by which the bargainer contracts to convey the lands to the bargainee, and becomes by such contract a trustee for and seised to the use of the bargainee. The statute then completes the purchase; that is, the bargain vests the use, and the statute vests the possession. NWAD BARGAIN.8
1. A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, furnished with elegant apartments, canopies and cushions, equipped with a band of rowers, and decorated with flags and streamers; used by officers and magistrates. NWAD BARGE.2
2. A flat-bottomed vessel of burthen, for loading and unloading ships. NWAD BARGE.3
2. The alkali procured from this plant. NWAD BARILLA.2
1. The rind or exterior covering of a tree, corresponding to the skin of an animal. This is composed of the cuticle or epidermis, the outer bark or cortex, and the inner bark or liber. The rough broken matter on bark is, by the common people of New England, called ross. NWAD BARK.2
2. By way of distinction. Peruvian Bark. NWAD BARK.3
Water-barks, in Holland, are small vessels, for conveying fresh water from place to place, the hold of which is filled with water. NWAD BARK.6
1. To make the noise of dogs, when they threaten or pursue. NWAD BARK.8
2. To clamor at; to pursue with unreasonable clamor or reproach. It is followed by at. NWAD BARK.9
To bark at sleeping fame. NWAD BARK.10
French barley and pearl barley are used for making decoctions. These are made by separating the grain from its coat. The pearl barley is reduced to the size of a small shot. NWAD BARLEY-WATER.2
Yeast; the scum rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in bread to make it swell, causing it to be softer, lighter, and more delicate. It may be used in liquors to make them ferment or work. NWAD BARM.2
1. A shell which is often found on the bottoms of ships, rocks and timber, below the surface of the sea. NWAD BARNACLE.2
2. A species of goose, found in the northern seas, but visiting more southern climates in winter. The forehead and cheeks are white, but the upper part of the body and neck is black. Formerly, a strange notion prevailed, that these birds grew out of wood, or rather out of the barnacles attached to wood in the sea. Hence the name. It is written also Bernacle. NWAD BARNACLE.3
3. In the plural, an instrument consisting of two branches jointed at one end with a hinge, to put upon a horse’s nose, to confine him, for shoeing, bleeding, or dressing. NWAD BARNACLE.4
This mineral is called also Witherite, from Dr. Withering, the discoverer. NWAD BAROLITE.2
An instrument for measuring the weight or pressure of the atmosphere, consisting of a glass tube, hermetically sealed at one end, filled with quicksilver, well defecated and purged of air, and inverted in a basin of quicksilver. A column of quicksilver is then supported in the tube, of equal weight with the incumbent atmosphere. This instrument was invented by Torricelli, of Florence, in 1643. Its uses are to indicate changes of weather, and to determine the altitude of mountains, by the falling and rising of the mercury. For this purpose, the tube is fixed to a graduated scale, so that the smallest variation in the column is visible. NWAD BAROMETER.2
1. In Great Britain, a title or degree of nobility; a lord; a peer; one who holds the rank of nobility next below that of a viscount, and above that of a knight or baronet. Originally, the barons, being the feudatories of princes, were the proprietors of land held by honorable service. Hence, in ancient records, the word barons comprehends all the nobility. All such in England had, in early times, a right to sit in parliament. As a baron was the proprietor of a manor, and each manor had its court-baron; hence the barons claimed, and to this day enjoy, the right of judging in the last resort; a right pertaining to the house of lords, or peers, as the representatives of the ancient barons, land-holders, manor-holders. NWAD BARON.2
Anciently, barons were greater, or such as held their lands of the king in capite; or lesser, such as held their lands of the greater barons by military service in capite. NWAD BARON.3
The title of baron is no longer attached to the possession of a manor, but given by the king’s letters patent, or writ of summons to parliament; that is, the dignity is personal, and not territorial. NWAD BARON.4
The radical word, vir, fir, a man, is Celtic, as well as Teutonic; but the word baron was not known in the British isles, till introduced from the continent under the Norman princes. NWAD BARON.5
2. Baron is a title of certain officers, as barons of the exchequer, who are the four judges who try cases between the king and his subjects, relating to the revenue. Barons of the Cinque Ports are members of the House of Commons, elected by the seven Cinque Ports, two for each port. These ports are Dover, Sandwich, Rommey, Hastings, Hythe, Winchelsea, and Rye. NWAD BARON.6
3. In law, a husband; as baron and feme, husband and wife. NWAD BARON.7
2. The dignity of a baron. NWAD BARONAGE.2
3. The land which gives title to a baron. NWAD BARONAGE.3
A mineral; sulphate of baryte; heavy spar. NWAD BAROSELENITE.2
1. One who frequently excites suits at law; a common mover and maintainer of suits and controversies; an encourager of litigation. NWAD BARRATOR.2
2. The master of a ship, who commits any fraud, in the management of the ship, or in relation to his duties as master, by which the owner or insurers are injured. NWAD BARRATOR.3
2. In commerce, any species of cheating or fraud, in a shipmaster, by which the owners or insurers are injured; as by running away with the ship, sinking or deserting her, by wilful deviation, or by embezzling the cargo. NWAD BARRATRY.2
1. A vessel or cask, of more length than breadth, round and bulging in the middle, made of staves and heading, and bound with hoops. NWAD BARREL.2
2. The quantity which a barrel contains. Of wine measure, the English barrel contains 31 1/2 gallons, of beer measure, 36 gallons; of ale, 32 gallons; and of beer-vinegar, 34 gallons. NWAD BARREL.3
Of weight, a barrel of Essex butter is 106 pounds; of Suffolk butter, 256, a barrel of herring should contain 32 gallons wine measure, and hold 1000 herrings; a barrel of salmon should contain 42 gallons; a barrel of soap should weigh 256 lbs. NWAD BARREL.4
In America, the contents of a barrel are regulated by statutes. NWAD BARREL.5
In Connecticut, the barrel for liquors must contain 31 1/2 gallons, each gallon to contain 231 cubic inches. In New York, a barrel of flour by statute must contain either 196 lb. or 228 lb. net weight. The barrel of beef and pork in New York and Connecticut, is 200 lbs. In general, the contents of barrels, as defined by statute, in this country, must be from 28 to 31 1/2 gallons. NWAD BARREL.6
3. Any thing hollow and long, as the barrel of a gun; a tube. NWAD BARREL.7
4. A cylinder; as the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled, and round which is wound the chain. NWAD BARREL.8
5. A cavity behind the tympanum of the ear is called the barrel of the ear. It is four or five lines deep, and five or six wide, and covered with a fine membrane. It is more usually called the cavity of the tympanum. NWAD BARREL.9
1. Put or packed in a barrel. NWAD BARRELED.2
2. In composition, having a barrel or tube; as a double-barreled gun. NWAD BARRELED.3
1. Not producing young, or offspring; applied to animals. NWAD BARREN.2
2. Not producing plants; unfruitful; steril; not fertile; or producing little; unproductive; applied to the earth. NWAD BARREN.3
3. Not producing the usual fruit; applied to tree, etc. NWAD BARREN.4
4. Not copious; scanty; as a scheme barren of hints. NWAD BARREN.5
5. Not containing useful or entertaining ideas; as a barren treatise. NWAD BARREN.6
6. Unmeaning; uninventive; dull; as barren spectators. NWAD BARREN.7
7. Unproductive; not inventive; as a barren mind. NWAD BARREN.8
1. In the States west of the Allegheny, a word used to denote a tract of land, rising a few feet above the level of a plain, and producing trees and grass. The soil of these barrens is not barren, as the name imports, but often very fertile. It is usually alluvial, to a depth sometimes of several feet. NWAD BARREN.10
2. Any unproductive tract of land; as the pine barrens of South Carolina. NWAD BARREN.11
2. Unfruitfulness; sterility, infertility. The quality of not producing at all, or in small quantities; as the barrenness of soil. NWAD BARRENNESS.2
3. Want of invention; want of the power of producing any thing new; applied to the mind. NWAD BARRENNESS.3
4. Want of matter; scantiness; as the barrenness of a cause. NWAD BARRENNESS.4
5. Defect of emotion, sensibility or fervency; as the barrenness of devotion. NWAD BARRENNESS.5
1. A fortification made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or any thing that will obstruct the progress of an enemy, or serve for defense or security, against his shot. NWAD BARRICADE.2
2. Any bar or obstruction; that which defends. NWAD BARRICADE.3
3. In naval architecture, a strong wooden rail, supported by stanchions, extending across the foremost part of the quarter deck, in ships of war, and filled with rope, mats, pieces of old cable, and full hammocks, to prevent the effect of small shot in time of action. NWAD BARRICADE.4
2. To fortify with any slight work that prevents the approach of an enemy. NWAD BARRICADE.6
1. In fortification, a kind of fence made in a passage or retrenchment, composed of great stakes, with transums or overthwart rafters, to stop an enemy. NWAD BARRIER.2
2. A wall for defense. NWAD BARRIER.3
3. A fortress or fortified town on the frontier of a country. NWAD BARRIER.4
4. Any obstruction; any thing which confines, or which hinders approach, or attack; as constitutional barriers. NWAD BARRIER.5
5. A bar to mark the limits of a place; any limit, or boundary; a line of separation. NWAD BARRIER.6
1. A light small carriage. A hand-barrow is a frame covered in the middle with boards, and borne by and between two men. NWAD BARROW.2
A wheel-barrow, is a frame with a box, supported by one wheel, and rolled by a single man. NWAD BARROW.3
2. A wicker case, in salt works, where the salt is put to drain. NWAD BARROW.4
1. In England, a hog; and according to Ash, obsolete. Barrow-grease is hog’s lard. NWAD BARROW.6
2. In America, a male hog castrated; a word in common use. NWAD BARROW.7