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ctive. "Baleful enemies." Shak. Four infernal rivers that disgorge Into the burning lake their baleful streams. Milton.

; to heap up in piles. [Obs.] Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights, Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see. Shak.

m, for measuring the force and velocity of projectiles by means of the arc through which their impact impels it.

Destruction; death. [Obs.] The cup of deception spiced and tempered to their bane. Milton.

A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars. Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojan sweep Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep. Waller.

The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work. Weale.

ke. [Archaic] If they banter your regularity, order, and love of study, banter in return their neglect of them. Chatham.

An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites.

Baptism. [Obs.] Their baptizations were null. Jer. Taylor.

To christen ( because a name is given to infants at their baptism); to give a name to; to name. I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo. Shak.

ds of the Jatropha curcas, a plant growing in South America and elsewhere. The seeds and their acrid oil are used in medicine as a purgative. See Physic nut.

language. See Solecism. The Greeks were the first that branded a foreign term in any of their writers with the odious name of barbarism. G. Campbell.

ech. 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.

ebleau. 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, a…

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.

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.