Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Barbican

{ Bar″bi‐can (�), Bar″ba‐can } (�), n. [OE. barbican, barbecan, F. barbacane, LL. barbacana, barbicana, of uncertain origin: cf. Ar. barbakh aqueduct, sewer. F. barbacane also m...

650

Barbicanage

{ Bar″bi‐can‐age (�), Bar″ba‐can‐age } (�), n. [LL. barbicanagium. See Barbican.] Money paid for the support of a barbican. Bouvier.

651

Barbicel

Bar″bi‐cel (�), n. [NL. barbicella, dim. of L. barba. See 1st Barb.] (Zoöl.) One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers.

652

Barbiers

‖Bar″biers (�), n.(Med.) A variety of paralysis, peculiar to India and the Malabar coast; — considered by many to be the same as beriberi in a chronic form.

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Barbigerous

Bar‐big″er‐ous (�), a. [L. barba a beard + -gerous.] Having a beard; bearded; hairy.

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Barbiton

‖Bar″bi‐ton (�), n. [L., fr. Gr. βάρβιτον.] (Mus.) An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.

655

Barbituric acid

Bar′bi‐tu″ric ac″id (�). (Chem.) A white, crystalline substance, CH2(CO.NH)2.CO, derived from alloxantin, also from malonic acid and urea, and regarded as a substituted urea.

656

Barbizon

{ Bar′bi′zon″, orBar′bi′son″, school (?) }. (Painting) A French school of the middle of the 19th century centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau. I...

657

Barble

Bar″ble (bär″b'l), n. See Barbel.

658

Barbotine

Bar″bo‐tine (�), n. A paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in relief.

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Barbre

Bar″bre (bär″bẽr), a. Barbarian. Chaucer.

660

Barbule

Bar″bule (�), n. [L. barbula, fr. barba beard.]1. A very minute barb or beard. Booth.2. (Zoöl.) One of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a feather, by which adjacent...

661

Barcarolle

Bar″ca‐rolle (�), n. [F. barcarolle, fr. It. barcaruola, fr. barca bark, barge.] (Mus.) (a) A popular song or melody sung by Venetian gondoliers. (b) A piece of music composed i...

662

Barcon

Bar″con (–kŏn), n. [It. barcone, fr. barca a bark.] A vessel for freight; — used in the Mediterranean.

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Bard

Bard (bärd), n. [Of Celtic origin; cf. W. bardd, Arm. barz, Ir. & Gael. bard, and F. barde.] 1. A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was ...

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Bard (2)

{ Bard, Barde } (bärd), n. [F. barde, of doubtful origin.]1. A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [Often in the...

665

Bard (3)

Bard, v. t.(Cookery) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.

666

Barded

Bard″ed, p. a. [See Bard horse armor.] 1. Accoutered with defensive armor; — said of a horse.2. (Her.) Wearing rich caparisons.Fifteen hundred men... barded and richly trapped.S...

667

Bardic

Bard″ic, a. Of or pertaining to bards, or their poetry. “The bardic lays of ancient Greece.” G. P. Marsh.

668

Bardiglio

‖Bar‐di″glio (?), n. An Italian marble of which the principal varieties occur in the neighborhood of Carrara and in Corsica. It commonly shows a dark gray or bluish ground trave...

669

Bardish

Bard″ish, a. Pertaining to, or written by, a bard or bards. “Bardish impostures.” Selden.

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Bardism

Bard″ism (–ĭz'm), n. The system of bards; the learning and maxims of bards.

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Bardling

Bard″ling (–lĭng), n. An inferior bard. J. Cunningham.

672

Bardship

Bard″ship, n. The state of being a bard.

673

Bare

Bare (bâr), a. [OE. bar, bare, AS. bær; akin to D. & G. baar, OHG. par, Icel. berr, Sw. & Dan. bar, OSlav. bosŭ barefoot, Lith. basas; cf. Skr. bhās to shine. √85.]1. Without cl...

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Bare (2)

Bare, n. 1. Surface; body; substance.You have touched the very bare of naked truth.Marston.2. (Arch.) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is expos...

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Bare (3)

Bare, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Bared(bârd); p. pr. & vb. n.Baring.] [AS. barian. See Bare, a.] To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.