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in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as, he was awkward at a trick; an awkward boy. And dropped an awkward courtesy. Dryden.

Fat; grease; esp. the fat of pigs or geese; usually (Pharm.), lard prepared for medical use.

Finery of a kind to please a child. [Obs.] "Painted babery." Sir P. Sidney.

A disease of hawks. See Filanders. Wright.

tive agents in fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases. See Bacillus.

stic forms, and much intersected by canons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands).

To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.

To deliver; to release. [Obs.] Ne none there was to rescue her, ne none to bail. Spenser.

The treatment of disease by baths.

A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.

stance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up. He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened to bar it in its dungeon. Hawthorne.

A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc. Barbados cherry (Bot.), a genus of trees of the West Indies (Malpighia) with an agreeably acid fruit resembling a cherry. -- Barbados leg (Med.), a species of elephantiasis incident to hot climates. -- Barbados nuts, the seeds of the Jatropha curca…

An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile.

A thermal cymoscope which operates by increased resistance when subjected to the influence of electric waves. The original form consisted of an extremely fine platinum wire loop attached to terminals and inclosed in a small glass or silver bulb. In a later variety, called the liquid barretter, wire is replace by a colu…

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.

equal in length, while those on a specific- gravity scale grow smaller as the density increases, there is no simple relation between degrees Bé. and Sp. gr. However, readings on Baumés scale may be approximately reduced to specific gravities by the following formulæ (x in each case being the reading on Baumé's scale) :…

the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense.

ed; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization. "The beatification of his spirit." Jer. Taylor.

To ascertain and declare, by a public process and decree, that a deceased person is one of "the blessed" and is to be reverenced as such, though not canonized.

To render calm or quiet; to calm; to still; to appease. Soft whispering airs . . . becalm the mind. Philips.