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In France, a second ballot taken after an indecisive first ballot to decide between two or several candidates.

bs.] Shak. To bank a fire, To bank up a fire, to cover the coals or embers with ashes or cinders, thus keeping the fire low but alive.

An indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of lead; a bar of soap.

over and above what is stipulated; besides. -- To sell bargains, to make saucy ( usually indelicate) repartees. [Obs.] Swift. -- To strike a bargain, to reach or ratify an agreement. "A bargain was struck." Macaulay.

eter with recurved tube, and a float, from which a cord passes over a pulley and moves an index.

A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.

to be a variety of the brown bear of Europe. -- Barren Ground caribou (Zoöl.), a small reindeer (Rangifer Groenlandicus) peculiar to the Barren Grounds and Greenland.

An any obstruction; anything which hinders approach or attack. "Constitutional barriers." Hopkinson.

A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.

Morally low. Hence: Low-minded; unworthy; without dignity of sentiment; ignoble; mean; illiberal; menial; as, a base fellow; base motives; base occupations. "A cruel act of a base and a cowardish mind." Robynson (More's Utopia). "Base ingratitude." Milton.

of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc.

The linden or lime tree, sometimes wrongly called whitewood; also, its bark, which is used for making mats. See Bast.

A recess or indentation shaped like a bay.

A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam.

To make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf. Donne.

To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence. Vast chain of being! which from God began. Pope.

Enterprise. "To hinder our beginnings." Shak.

Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted. But being so beholden to the Prince. Tennyson.

The spicebush (Lindera benzoin). Flowers of benzoin, benzoic acid. See under Benzoic.

A bookbinder.