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A hearer; especially a catechumen in the early church. [Obs.] Shelton.

Having the form of the human ear; ear-shaped.

. Huxley. So great and admirable an automaton as the world. Boyle. These living automata, human bodies. Boyle.

force, or efficacy, for the object; effectual; valid; as, an available plea. [Obs.] Laws human are available by consent. Hooker.

An open declaration; frank acknowledgment; as, an avowal of such principles. Hume.

To treat like a young child; to keep dependent; to humor; to fondle. Young.

In human beings, the hinder part of the body, extending from the neck to the end of the spine; in other animals, that part of the body which corresponds most nearly to such part of a human being; as, the back of a horse, fish, or lobster.

ck; as, a backed electrotype or stereotype plate. Used in composition; as, broad- backed; hump- backed.

A native of Bactria. Bactrian camel, the two-humped camel.

or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat. [Obs.] The bail of a canoe . . . made of a human skull. Capt. Cook.

A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; as, the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot.

To deceive by trickery; to cajole by confusing the senses; to hoax; to mystify; to humbug. [Colloq.] Addison. What oriental tomfoolery is bamboozling you J. H. Newman.

To beat or thump, or to cause ( something) to hit or strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it.

The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good- humored raillery; pleasantry. Part banter, part affection. Tennyson.

A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity. "Thou fell barbarian." Philips.

Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity. Treating Christians with a barbarity which would have shocked the very Moslem. Macaulay.

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

Liquor made from barley; strong ale. [Humorous] [Scot.] Burns.

to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch. John Barleycorn, a humorous personification of barley as the source of malt liquor or whisky.

Of humble birth; or low degree; lowly; mean. [Archaic] "A pleasant and base swain." Bacon.