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The resinous and aromatic exudation of certain trees or shrubs. Dryden.

Having balusters. Dryden.

lf by the banishment of his enemies. Johnson. Round the wide world in banishment we roam. Dryden.

ts, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier. Must I new bars to my own joy create Dryden.

Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste.[Obs.] Barbarous gold. Dryden.

To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron. They use little or no salt, but barbecue their game and fish in the smoke. Stedman.

before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture. "A bare treasury." Dryden.

Full of barm or froth; in a ferment. "Barmy beer." Dryden.

anent structure or set of buildings. He lodged in a miserable hut or barrack, composed of dry branches and thatched with straw. Gibbon.

condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness. A total barrenness of invention. Dryden.

ch plays, base. [Now commonly written bass.] The trebles squeak for fear, the bases roar. Dryden.

The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests. Dryden.

To remit or retrench a part; -- with of. Abate thy speed, and I will bate of mine. Dryden.

ve gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure.

To grow fat; to grow fat in ease and luxury; to glut one's self. Dryden. The pampered monarch lay battening in ease. Garth. Skeptics, with a taste for carrion, who batten on the hideous facts in history, -- persecutions, inquisitions. Emerson.

a dog with a deep voice does, at his game. The hounds at nearer distance hoarsely bayed. Dryden.

The pole of a carriage. [Poetic] Dryden.

Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy. His double-biting ax, and beamy spear. Dryden.

To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor Dryden. The ancient grudge I bear him. Shak.

Having a beard. "Bearded fellow." Shak. "Bearded grain." Dryden. Bearded vulture, Bearded eagle. (Zoöl.) See Lammergeir. -- Bearded tortoise. (Zoöl.) See Matamata.