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To watch for; to look out for. [Obs.]

he was aware of the enemy's designs. Aware of nothing arduous in a task They never undertook. Cowper.

mingled with respect. [Obs. or Obsolescent] His frown was full of terror, and his voice Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe. Cowper.

The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place. Therefore is the name of it called Babel. Gen. xi. 9.

he eyes of another. She clung about his neck, gave him ten kisses, Toyed with his locks, looked babies in his eyes. Heywood.

The part opposed to the front; the hinder or rear part of a thing; as, the back of a book; the back of an army; the back of a chimney.

The preparation of the back of a book with glue, etc., before putting on the cover.

To make to look like a bagpipe. To bagpipe the mizzen (Naut.), to lay it aback by bringing the sheet to the mizzen rigging. Totten.

iling water out of a boat. [Obs.] The bail of a canoe . . . made of a human skull. Capt. Cook.

Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.

To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.

The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.

ions between sovereign states or between dominant parties in a state. -- Balance sheet (Bookkeeping), a paper showing the balances of the open accounts of a business, the debit and credit balances footing up equally, if the system of accounts be complete and the balances correctly taken. -- Balance thermometer, a the…

To omit, miss, or overlook by chance. [Obs.]

Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.

Having crooked legs.

bout my credulity. Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered on my haggard looks the next day. W. Irving.

barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up. He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened to bar it in its dungeon. Hawthorne.

The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else. "Having two barbs or points." Ascham.

One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers.