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Shaped like an ear of grain.

Any one trained to contend in exercises requiring great physical agility and strength; one who has great activity and strength; a champion.

The art of training by athletic exercises; the games and sports of athletes.

Being present, or in the train; accompanying; in waiting. From the attendant flotilla rang notes triumph. Sir W. Scott. Cherub and Seraph . . . attendant on their Lord. Milton.

Contemning the restraints of law, religion, or decorum; bold in wickedness; presumptuous; impudent; insolent. " Audacious traitor." Shak. " Such audacious neighborhood." Milton.

Reckless daring; presumptuous impudence; -- implying a contempt of law or moral restraints. With the most arrogant audacity. Joye.

ze, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reëforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil. But their spite still serves His glory to augment. Milton.

A system of land forms produced by the free action of rain and streams on rocks of uniform texture.

In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets. On an average, taking the mean of unequal numbers or quantities.

The courts by which anything is carried off. Avoidances and drainings of water. Bacon.

upois weight, a system of weights by which coarser commodities are weighed, such as hay, grain, butter, sugar, tea.

The act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right. Blackstone.

sualties." "Awkward wind." Shak. O blind guides, which being of an awkward religion, do strain out a gnat, and swallow up a cancel. Udall.

ke cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.

In a state of restraint or hindrance. The Lord hath kept thee back from honor. Numb. xxiv. 11.

es used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another. [Now dialectic, Eng.]

recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.

A ditcher; a drain digger. [Prov. Eng.]

Africa and Gibraltar Rock, being the only monkey inhabiting Europe. It is very commonly trained by showmen.

A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky. Barley bird (Zoöl.), the siskin. -- Barley sugar, sugar boiled till it is brittle (formerly with a decoction of barley) and candied. -- Barley water, a decoction of barley, use…