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ltimore, because its colors (black and orange red) are like those of his coat of arms; -- called also golden robin.

of banjo, with a short neck, tuned a fourth higher than the common banjo; -- popularly so called.

orpulence by avoiding food containing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; -- so called from William Banting of London.

A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.

the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.

Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it. The barbel, so called by reason of his barbs, or wattles in his mouth. Walton.

e (Hort.), a glazed structure for keeping tropical plants, having a bed of tanner's bark (called a bark bed) or other fermentable matter which produces a moist heat.

a (Min.), native copper in granular form mixed with sand, an ore brought from Bolivia; -- called also Barilla de cobre.

mpact massive forms resembling marble. It has a high specific gravity, and hence is often called heavy spar. It is a common mineral in metallic veins.

Symbol, Ba. Its oxide called baryta. [Rarely written barytum.]

Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers. [Cant, Eng.] Dickens.

nia barometz), which, when specially prepared and inverted, somewhat resembles a lamb; -- called also Scythian lamb.

A resin, called also galipot.

A large American owl (Syrnium nebulosum); -- so called from the transverse bars of a dark brown color on the breast.

A kind of cap formerly worn by soldiers; -- called also barret cap. Also, the flat cap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics.

p attached to terminals and inclosed in a small glass or silver bulb. In a later variety, called the liquid barretter, wire is replace by a column of liquid in a very fine capillary tube.

A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchrétien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.

Barium sulphate, generally called heavy spar or barite. See Barite.

ief; sculpture, the figures of which project less than half of their true proportions; -- called also bassrelief and basso- rilievo. See Alto-rilievo.

s, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant. Base fee, formerly, an estate held at the will of the lord; now, a qualified fee. See note under Fee, n., 4. -- Base metal. See under Metal.