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A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door. Thou shalt make bars of shittim wood. Ex. xxvi. 26.…

Bearded; beset with long and weak hairs.

A shrub of the genus Berberis, common along roadsides and in neglected fields. B. vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red berries are made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root. [Also spelt berberry.]…

A variety of small dog, having long curly hair.

One of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. See Feather.

One of the elements, belonging to the alkaline earth group; a metal having a silver-white color, and melting at a very high temperature. It is difficult to obtain the pure metal, from the facility with which it becomes oxidized in the air. Atomic weight,

A yard belonging to a barn.

It is made in its simplest form by filling a graduated glass tube about 34 inches long with mercury and inverting it in a cup containing mercury. The column of mercury in the tube descends until balanced by the weight of the atmosphere, and its rise or fall under varying conditions is a measure of the change in the atm…

A large, dark-colored, South American monkey, of the genus Lagothrix, having a long prehensile tail.

by Spain, a village, ward, or district outside a town or city to whose jurisdiction it belongs.

A soldier belonging to the irregular troops of the Turkish army.

A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example.

A lizard of the genus Basiliscus, belonging to the family Iguanidæ.

Prolonged at the base, as certain leaves.

A small kind of hound with a long body and short legs, used as an earth dog.

ss, the lime tree. All the bowls were made of basswood, White and polished very smoothly. Longfellow.

To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly. Shak.

der of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire. Bat tick (Zoöl.), a wingless, dipterous insect of the genus Nycteribia, parasitic on bats.

sed. "The rosy shadows bathe me. " Tennyson. "The bright sunshine bathing all the world." Longfellow.

as, (a) pl. (Com. & Arch.) Sawed timbers about 7 by 2 1/2 inches and not less than 6 feet long. Brande & C. (b) (Naut.) A strip of wood used in fastening the edges of a tarpaulin to the deck, also around masts to prevent chafing. (c) A long, thin strip used to strengthen a part, to cover a crack, etc. Batten door (Arch…