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ts of a place, or to keep back a crowd. No sooner were the barriers opened, than he paced into the lists. Sir W. Scott.

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

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

nced drawbridge, which is opened by sinking the counterpoise and thus lifting the footway into the air.

That which converts into a salifiable base.

To convert into a salifiable base.

A digest of the laws of Justinian, translated from the original Latin into Greek, by order of Basil I., in the ninth century. P. Cyc.

as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc.

A bar of cartilage at the base of the embryonic fins of some fishes. It develops into the metapterygium. -- Ba*sip`ter*yg"i*al (, a.

To put into a basket. [R.]

rs, in which two parties of players contest with each other to toss a large inflated ball into opposite goals resembling baskets.

cer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court. Mozley & W.

A warlike South African people of the Bantu stock, divided into many tribes, subject to the English. They formerly practiced cannibalism, but have now adopted many European customs.

Act of taking a bath or baths. Bathing machine, a small room on wheels, to be driven into the water, for the convenience of bathers, who undress and dress therein.

To form into battalions. [R.]

for repair of the carriages, etc., of the battery. -- In battery, projecting, as a gun, into an embrasure or over a parapet in readiness for firing. -- Masked battery, a battery artificially concealed until required to open upon the enemy. -- Out of battery, or From battery, withdrawn, as a gun, to a position for l…

A division of an army; a battalion. [Obs.] The king divided his army into three battles. Bacon. The cavalry, by way of distinction, was called the battle, and on it alone depended the fate of every action. Robertson.

To compel or drive by the bayonet. To bayonet us into submission. Burke.

d wind. [Southern U. S.] A dark slender thread of a bayou moves loiteringly northeastward into a swamp of huge cypresses. G. W. Cable.

ained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it; now ascertained by more accurate meters.