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here. -- Wheel barometer, a barometer with recurved tube, and a float, from which a cord passes over a pulley and moves an index.

A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field.

To fortify or close with a barricade or with barricades; to stop up, as a passage; to obstruct; as, the workmen barricaded the streets of Paris. The further end whereof [a bridge] was barricaded with barrels. Hakluyt.

A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy.

A passage into a field or yard, closed by bars made to take out of the posts.

A male voice, the compass of which partakes of the common bass and the tenor, but which does not descend as low as the one, nor rise as high as the other.

The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.

An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves.

sses the ship at right angles, or in the direction of her beams, and that point of the compass toward which her stern is directed. -- Beam center (Mach.), the fulcrum or pin on which the working beam of an engine vibrates. -- Beam compass, an instrument consisting of a rod or beam, having sliding sockets that carry s…

To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E. To bear against, to approach for attack or seizure; as, a lion bears against his prey. [Obs.] -- To bear away (Naut.), to change the course of a ship, and make her run before the wind. -- To bear back, to retreat. "…

hip's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W. (b) pl.

To tread, as a path. Pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way. Blackmore.

To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional matter, or a new character. The Lord God . . . breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Gen. ii. 7. That error…

A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine. Knight.

To come to pass; to happen. I have revealed . . . the discord which befell. Milton.

To surround as with a band; to encompass.

To encompass; to begird. Milton.

To cause the time of to pass without notice; to relieve the tedium or weariness of; to while away; to divert. Ballads . . . to beguile his incessant wayfaring. W. Irving.

A band that passes under the belly of a horse and holds the saddle or harness in place; a girth.

A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea.