BAROSCOPIC
BAROS'COP'IC, adjective Pertaining to or determined by the baroscope.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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BAROSELENITE
BAROSEL'ENITE, noun [Gr.weight, or heavy, and selenite.]A mineral; sulphate of baryte; heavy spar.
BARQUE
BARQUE, noun A small ship; but appropriately, a ship which carries three masts without a mizen top sail. The English mariners, in the coal trade, apply this name to a broadstern...
BARRA
BAR'RA, noun In Portugal and Spain, a long measure for cloths. In Valencia, 13 barras make 12 6/7 yards English; in Castile, 7 are equal to 6 4/7 yards; in Arragon, 3 make 2 4/7...
BARRACADA
BARRACA'DA, noun A fish, about fifteen inches in length, of a dusky color on the back, and a white belly, with small black spots.
BARRACAN
BAR'RACAN, noun A thick, strong stuff, something like camelot; used for clokes, surtouts, and other outer garments.
BARRACK
BAR'RACK, noun A hut or house for soldiers, especially in garrison. In Spain, a hut or cabin for fishermen.
BARRACK-MASTER
BAR'RACK-MASTER, noun The officer who superintends the barracks of soldiers.
BARRACUDA
BARRACU'DA, noun A species of fish of the pike kind, found in the seas about the Bahamas and W.Indies, of ten feet in length. The color is deep brown, and the fish is very vorac...
BARRATOR
BAR'RATOR, noun [Latin ferto; Eng.barter. See Barter.]1. One who frequently excites suits at law; a common mover and maintainer of suits and controversies; an encourager of liti...
BARRATROUS
BARRATROUS, adjective Tainted with barratry.
BARRATROUSLY
BARRATROUSLY, adverb In a barratrous manner.
BARRATRY
BAR'RATRY, noun The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels.2. In commerce, any species of cheating or fraud, in a shipmaster, by which the owners or insurers...
BARRE
BAR'RE, noun Weights used in the E.Indies. The great bahar, for weighing pepper, cloves, nutmegs, etc., is 524 lb.9 oz. avoirdupoise. The little bahar, for weighing quicksilver,...
BARRED
B'ARRED, participle passive Fastened with a bar; hindered; restrained; excluded; forbid; striped; checkered.
BARREL
BAR'REL, noun1. A vessel or cask, of more length than breadth, round and bulging in the middle, made of staves and heading, and bound with hoops.2. The quantity which a barrel c...
BARREL-BELLIED
BAR'REL-BELLIED, adjective [See Belly.] Having a large belly.
BARRELED
BAR'RELED, participle passive1. Put or packed in a barrel.2. In composition, having a barrel or tube; as a double-barreled gun.
BARRELLING
BAR'RELLING, participle present tense Putting or packing in a barrel.
BARREN
BAR'REN, adjective [from the same root as bare.]1. Not producing young, or offspring; applied to animals.2. Not producing plants; unfruitful; steril; not fertile; or producing l...
BARRENLY
BAR'RENLY, adverb Unfruitfully.
BARRENNESS
BAR'RENNESS, adverb The quality of not producing its kind; want of the power of conception; applied to animals.2. Unfruitfulness; sterility, infertility. The quality of not prod...
BARRENWORT
BAR'RENWORT, noun [See Wort.] A plant, constituting the genus Epimedium, of which the alpinum is the only species; a low herbaceous plant, with a creeping root, having many stal...
BARRFUL
B'ARRFUL, adjective Full of obstructions.
BARRICADE
BARRICA'DE, noun1. 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,...
BARRICADO
BARRICA'DO. The same as barricade.
BARRIER
BAR'RIER. [See bar]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.2. A w...