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,n.See Bear, barley. [Scot.]

ly occurring near the head of a mountain glacier, about where the névé field joins the valley portion of the glacier.

,a.Of or relating to Bishop Berkeley or his system of idealism; as, Berkeleian philosophy. -- Berke"ley*ism, n.

cultivated as a forage plant and soil-renewing crop in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called also Egyptian clover.

building attached to a church edifice, in which the bread for the eucharist is made. Audsley.

he blue, by adding yellow orpiment, or by grinding down the green carbonate of copper. Cooley. Brande & C.

Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind. "Bear interchanges in local use, now with barley, now with bigg." New English Dict.

The state of being twice folded; reduplication. [R.] Bailey.

An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars.

specting rural affairs; a rustic or local law or by-law. [Written also byrlaw, birlie, birley.]

Anything added to raise the sides of a ship. Bailey.

not actually exist; one who has the office of bishop, without especial jurisdiction. Shipley. -- Titular bishop (R. C. Ch.), a term officially substituted in 1882 for bishop in partibus. -- Bench of Bishops. See under Bench.

d of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer. Cooley.

Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical; extravagant; grotesque. C. Kingsley.

stain; a spot; a smooch. Defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks of lust. Rowley. Black and white, writing or print; as, I must have that statement in black and white. -- Blue black, a pigment of a blue black color. -- Ivory black, a fine kind of animal charcoal prepared by calcining ivory or bones. When…

the modern layers of black wash, and let the man himself, fair or foul, be seen. C. Kingsley.

To make agreeable and enticing. Mustering all her wiles, With blandished parleys. Milton.

n of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant. "Blank and horror-stricken faces." C. Kingsley. The blank . . . glance of a half returned consciousness. G. Eliot.

A form of decay seen in fleshy, overripe fruit. Lindley.

g no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.