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eech. The ill habit . . . of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms. Milton.

Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless. By their barbarous usage he died within a few days, to the grief of all that knew him. Clarendon.

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.

nebleau. Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified, esp. in landscapes, by Corot, Rousseau, Daubigny, Jules Dupré, and Diaz. Associated with them are certain painters of animals,…

Of or pertaining to bards, or their poetry. "The bardic lays of ancient Greece." G. P. Marsh.

Threadbare; much worn. It appears by their bare liveries that they live by your bare words. Shak.

y with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow. So worthless peasants bargain for their wives. Shak.

One who strips trees of their bark.

Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers. [Cant, Eng.] Dickens.

Low relief; sculpture, the figures of which project less than half of their true proportions; -- called also bassrelief and basso- rilievo. See Alto-rilievo.

es of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids.

Pertaining to Biscay, its people, or their language.

A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash their bodies in water.

approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning. No flaming beacons cast their blaze afar. Gay.

An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.

To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc. He shall bear their iniquities. Is. liii. 11. Somewhat that will bear your charges. Dryden.

To beat out of a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give it up. "Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day." South. -- To beat the dust. (Man.) (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse. (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low. -- To beat the hoof, to walk; to go…

In order that; that. [Obs.] And the multitude rebuked them because they should hold their peace. Matt. xx. 31. Because of, by reason of, on account of. [Prep. phrase.] Because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Eph. v. 6.

or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command. They have troops of soldiers at their beck. Shak.

es me so to speak of so excellent a poet. Dryden. I have known persons so anxious to have their dress become them, as to convert it, at length, into their proper self, and thus actually to become the dress. Coleridge.