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A variety of small barnyard fowl, with feathered legs, probably brought from Bantam, a district of Java.

A foreigner. [Historical] Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.

ny excess; with nothing to spare ( of quantity, time, etc.); hence, scarcely; hardly; as, there was barely enough for all; he barely escaped.

A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable. Gwilt.

ke importunate outcries. They bark, and say the Scripture maketh heretics. Tyndale. Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed. Fuller.

the English hundred, and supposed to have been originally the district of a native chief. There are 252 of these baronies. In Scotland, an extensive freehold. It may be held by a commoner. Brande & C.

Of, relating to, or resembling, a basilica; basilical. There can be no doubt that the first churches in Constantinople were in the basilican form. Milman.

An edible, spiny-finned fish, esp. of the genera Roccus, Labrax, and related genera. There are many species.

ibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom.

heels, to be driven into the water, for the convenience of bathers, who undress and dress therein.

mé in the graduation of his hydrometers; of or relating to Baumé's scales or hydrometers. There are two Baumé hydrometers. One, which is used with liquids heavier than water, sinks to 0º in pure water, and to 15º in a 15 per cent salt solution; the other, for liquids lighter than water, sinks to 0º in a 10 per cent sal…

sworth. The old definition of beauty, in the Roman school, was, "multitude in unity;" and there is no doubt that such is the principle of beauty. Coleridge.

lipping on either side." Johnson. Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff. B. Jonson. Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves. Brome.

sence of demand for something which elsewhere brings a price; as, grapes are so plentiful there that they go a-begging.

forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining. We can not be sure that there is no evidence behind. Locke.

To beat soundly; to cudgel. Ajax belabors there a harmless ox. Dryden.

To jut over; to overhang. There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully in the confined deep. Shak.

At or during pleasure. For our English judges there never was . . . any bene placito as their tenure. F. Harrison.

A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields.

was formerly believed that it hatched from the cirripeds of the sea (Lepas), which were, therefore, called barnacles, goose barnacles, or Anatifers. The name is also applied to other related species. See Anatifa and Cirripedia.