Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Baptistery

{ Bap″tis‐ter‐y (�), Bap″tis‐try } (�), n.; pl.Baptisteries (�), -tries (�). [L. baptisterium, Gr. �: cf. F. baptistère.] (Arch.) (a) In early times, a separate building, usuall...

596

Baptistic

Bap‐tis″tic (�), a. [Gr. �] Of or for baptism; baptismal.

597

Baptistical

Bap‐tis″tic‐al (�), a. Baptistic.

598

Baptizable

Bap‐tiz″a‐ble (�), a. Capable of being baptized; fit to be baptized. Baxter.

599

Baptization

Bap′ti‐za″tion (�), n. Baptism.Their baptizations were null.Jer. Taylor.

600

Baptize

Bap‐tize″ (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Baptized (�); p. pr. & vb. n.Baptizing.] [F. baptiser, L. baptizare, fr.Gr. �. See Baptism.] 1. To administer the sacrament of baptism to.2. To...

601

Baptizement

Bap‐tize″ment (�), n. The act of baptizing.

602

Baptizer

Bap‐tiz″er (�), n. One who baptizes.

603

Bar

Bar (bär), n. [OE. barre, F. barre, fr. LL. barra, W. bar the branch of a tree, bar, baren branch, Gael. & Ir. barra bar. √91.] 1. A piece of wood, metal, or other material, lon...

604

Bar (2)

Bar (bär), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Barred (bärd); p. pr. & vb. n.Barring.] [F. barrer. See Bar, n.] 1. To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.2. To restrict or confine, as i...

605

Bar iron

Bar″ i′ron (�). See under Iron.

606

Baraca

Ba‐ra″ca (?), n. An international, interdenominational organization of Bible classes of young men; — so named in allusion to the Hebrew word Berachah (Meaning blessing) occurrin...

607

Barad

Bar″ad (?), n.(Physics) The pressure of one dyne per square centimeter; — used as a unit of pressure.

608

Baræsthesiometer

{ Bar′æs‐the′si‐om″e‐ter, Bar′es‐the′si‐om″e‐ter (?) }, n. [Gr. � weight + æsthesiometer.] (Physiol.) An instrument for determining the delicacy of the sense of pressure. — Bar′...

609

Barathea

Bar′a‐the″a (?), n. A soft fabric with a kind of basket weave and a diapered pattern.

610

Barb

Barb (�), n. [F. barbe, fr. L. barba beard. See Beard, n.] 1. Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.The barbel, so called by reason of his barbs, or wat...

611

Barb (2)

Barb, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Barbed (�); p. pr. & vb. n.Barbing.] 1. To shave or dress the beard of.2. To clip; to mow. Marston.3. To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hol...

612

Barb (3)

Barb, n. [F. barbe, fr. Barbarie.] 1. The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.2. (Zoöl.) A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, ori...

613

Barb (4)

Barb, n. [Corrupted fr. bard.] Armor for a horse. Same as 2d Bard, n., 1.

614

Barbacan

Bar″ba‐can (�), n. See Barbican.

615

Barbacanage

Bar″ba‐can‐age (�), n. See Barbicanage.

616

Barbadian

Bar‐ba″di‐an (�), a. Of or pertaining to Barbados. — n. A native of Barbados.

617

Barbados

{ Bar‐ba″dosorBar‐ba″does } (�), n. A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc.Barbados cherry(Bot.), a genus of trees of the West Indies (Malpighia) w...

618

Barbara

‖Bar″ba‐ra (�), n.(Logic) The first word in certain mnemonic lines which represent the various forms of the syllogism. It indicates a syllogism whose three propositions are univ...

619

Barbaresque

Bar′ba‐resque″ (�), a. Barbaric in form or style; as, barbaresque architecture. De Quincey.

620

Barbarian

Bar‐ba″ri‐an (�), n. [See Barbarous.] 1. A foreigner.Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall ...

621

Barbarian (2)

Bar‐ba″ri‐an, a. Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations.