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d barometer for use with accompanying graphic diagrams and printed directions designed to aid mariners to interpret the indications of the barometer so as to determine the existence of a violent storm at a distance of several hundred miles.

eous plant of the Barberry family (Epimedium alpinum), having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific.

Traversed by barrulets or small bars; -- said of the field.

, Divided into bars; -- said of the field.

ng one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck.

Having the nerves radiating from the base; -- said of leaves.

Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt. Basic salt (Chem.), a salt formed from a base or hydroxide by the partial replacement of its hydrogen by a negative or acid element or radical.

A game at cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have been invented at Venice. Some dress, some dance, some play, not to forget Your piquet parties, and your dear basset. Rowe.

A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge. Wright.

Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes. [Obs.] It [a garment] is al bawdy and to-tore also. Chaucer.

Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also, beacons, collectively.

catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general. On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be field. Spenser. It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are direct…

The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another.

To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons. [Obs.] Bear them to my house. Shak.

having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond.

apid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison. A beating wind (Naut.), a wind which necessitates tacking in order to make progress. -- To beat about, to try to find; to search by various means or ways. Addison…

character or circumstances; to be worthy of, or proper for; to cause to appear well; -- said of persons and things. It becomes me so to speak of so excellent a poet. Dryden. I have known persons so anxious to have their dress become them, as to convert it, at length, into their proper self, and thus actually to become…

The place or material in which a block or brick is laid.

To act as a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or countenance. By the darkness befriended. Longfellow.

To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father. Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget. Milton.