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A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands.

e usual opening at the heel, to protect a tender frog from injury. -- Bar shot, a double headed shot, consisting of a bar, with a ball or half ball at each end; -- formerly used for destroying the masts or rigging in naval combat. -- Bar sinister (Her.), a term popularly but erroneously used for baton, a mark of ille…

With head uncovered; bareheaded. When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. Herbert.

adth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads.

The largest of the different kinds of drums, having two heads, and emitting a deep, grave sound. See Bass, a.

medicament to; as, to bathe the eye with warm water or with sea water; to bathe one's forehead with camphor.

The fool's club. [Obs.] "A fool's bauble was a short stick with a head ornamented with an ass's ears fantastically carved upon it." Nares.

A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.

ike a beak; rostrate. Beaked whale (Zoöl.), a cetacean of the genus Hyperoodon; the bottlehead whale.

To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple. [Prov. Eng.]

Furnished with beams, as the head of a stag. Tost his beamed frontlet to the sky. Sir W. Scott.

A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.

A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein.

To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble. Why should any one . . . beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic Locke.

To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand. [Archaic] Drayton.

To duck; to put the head under water; to immerse. "Deep himself beducked." Spenser.

(Zoöl.), the larva of the bee beetle. See Illust. of Bee beetle. -- To have a bee in the head or in the bonnet. (a) To be choleric. [Obs.] (b) To be restless or uneasy. B. Jonson. (c) To be full of fancies; to be a little crazy. "She's whiles crack-brained, and has a bee in her head." Sir W. Scott.

In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house. His angel, who shall go Before them in a cloud and pillar of fire. Milton.

To jut over; to overhang. There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully in the confined deep. Shak.

vasse or series of crevasses, usually deep and often broad, frequently occurring near the head of a mountain glacier, about where the névé field joins the valley portion of the glacier.