Webster's Dictionary 1913

838

Barter (3)

Bar″ter, n. 1. The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods.The spirit of huckstering and barter.Burke.2. The thing given in exchange.Syn....

839

Barterer

Bar″ter‐er (�), n. One who barters.

840

Bartery

Bar″ter‐y (�), n. Barter. Camden.

841

Barth

Barth (�), n. A place of shelter for cattle. Halliwell.

842

Bartholomew tide

Bar‐thol″o‐mew tide′ (�). Time of the festival of St. Bartholomew, August 24th. Shak.

843

Bartizan

Bar″ti‐zan′ (�), n. [Cf. Brettice.] (Arch.) A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.

844

Bartlett

Bart″lett (�), n.(Bot.) A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchrétien. It was brought to America, and di...

845

Barton

Bar″ton (bär″tŭn), n. [AS. beretūn courtyard, grange; bere barley + tūn an inclosure.] 1. The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself. Burton.2. A farmyard. Southey.

846

Bartram

Bar″tram (�), n.(Bot.) See Bertram. Johnson.

847

Barway

Bar″way′ (�), n. A passage into a field or yard, closed by bars made to take out of the posts.

848

Barwise

Bar″wise′ (�), adv.(Her.) Horizontally.

849

Barwood

Bar″wood′ (–wo͝od′), n. 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 turn...

850

Barycentric

Bar′y‐cen″tric (�), a. [Gr. βαρύσ heavy + κέντρον center.] Of or pertaining to the center of gravity. See Barycentric calculus, under Calculus.

851

Baryphony

Ba‐ryph″o‐ny (�), n. [Gr. βαρύσ heavy + φωνή a sound, voice.] (Med.) Difficulty of speech.

852

Barysphere

Bar″y‐sphere (?), n. [Gr. � heavy + sphere.] (Geol.) The heavy interior portion of the earth, within the lithosphere.

853

Baryta

Ba‐ry″ta (�), n. [Gr. βαρύσ heavy. Cf. Baria.] (Chem.) An oxide of barium (or barytum); a heavy earth with a specific gravity above 4.

854

Barytes

Ba‐ry″tes (�), n. [Gr. βαρύσ heavy: cf. Gr. βαρύτησ heaviness, F. baryte.] (Min.) Barium sulphate, generally called heavy spar or barite. See Barite.

855

Barytic

Ba‐ryt″ic (�), a. Of or pertaining to baryta.

856

Baryto-calcite

Ba‐ry″to–cal″cite (�), n. [Baryta + calcite.] (Min.) A mineral of a white or gray color, occurring massive or crystallized. It is a compound of the carbonates of barium and calc...

857

Barytone

{ Bar″y‐tone, Bar″i‐tone } (�), a. [Gr. βαρύτονοσ; βαρύσ heavy + τόνοσ tone.] 1. (Mus.) Grave and deep, as a kind of male voice.2. (Greek Gram.) Not marked with an accent on the...

858

Barytone (2)

{ Bar″y‐tone, Bar″i‐tone }, n. [F. baryton: cf. It. baritono.] 1. (Mus.) (a) A male voice, the compass of which partakes of the common bass and the tenor, but which does not des...

859

Barytum

Ba‐ry″tum (�), n.(Chem.) The metal barium. See Barium.

860

Bas-relief

Bas′–re‐lief″ (�), n. [F. bas-relief; bas low + relief raised work, relever to raise: cf. It. bassorilievo.] Low relief; sculpture, the figures of which project less than half o...

861

Basal

Ba″sal (�), a. Relating to, or forming, the base.Basal cleavage. See under Cleavage. — Basal plane(Crystallog.), one parallel to the lateral or horizontal axis.

862

Basal-nerved

Ba″sal–nerved′ (�), a.(Bot.) Having the nerves radiating from the base; — said of leaves.

863

Basalt

Ba‐salt″ (�), n. [L. basaltes (an African word), a dark and hard species of marble found in Ethiopia: cf. F. basalte.] 1. (Geol.) A rock of igneous origin, consisting of augite ...

864

Basaltic

Ba‐salt″ic (�), a. [Cf. F. basaltique.] Pertaining to basalt; formed of, or containing, basalt; as basaltic lava.