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Barter. [Obs.] Camden.

A place of shelter for cattle. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Time of the festival of St. Bartholomew, August 24th. Shak.

A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.

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 distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.

The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself. [Eng.] Burton.

See Bertram. Johnson.

A passage into a field or yard, closed by bars made to take out of the posts.

Horizontally.

A red wood of a leguminous tree (Baphia nitida), from Angola and the Gaboon in Africa. It is used as a dyewood, and also for ramrods, violin bows and turner's work.

Of or pertaining to the center of gravity. See Barycentric calculus, under Calculus.

Difficulty of speech.

The heavy interior portion of the earth, within the lithosphere.

An oxide of barium (or barytum); a heavy earth with a specific gravity above 4.

Barium sulphate, generally called heavy spar or barite. See Barite.

Of or pertaining to baryta.

e or gray color, occurring massive or crystallized. It is a compound of the carbonates of barium and calcium.

Grave and deep, as a kind of male voice.

The metal barium. See Barium. [R.]

Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis. Coxe.