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A female baker. [Obs.]

A female banker. Thackeray.

An instrument for determining the delicacy of the sense of pressure. -- Bar`æs*the`si*o*met"ric, Bar`es*the`si*o*met"ric (#), a.

Barbaric in form or style; as, barbaresque architecture. De Quincey.

A Berserker, or Norse warrior who fought without armor, or shirt of mail. Hence, adverbially: Without shirt of mail or armor.

Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.

A woman who confers a benefit. His benefactress blushes at the deed. Cowper.

Having the form of a double crescent.

A group of birds, including auks, divers, and penguins.

A hydrostatic press of immense power, invented by Joseph Bramah of London. See under Hydrostatic.

for Bursteth. [Obs.]

A torus. [Obs.]

To burst. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Breastsummer.

One of a tribe of beetles, of the genus Buprestis and allied genera, usually with brilliant metallic colors. The larvæ are usually bores in timber, or beneath bark, and are often very destructive to trees.

A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.

Self-interest; private advantage. Atterbury.

Private end or view; by-interest. [Obs.] Dryden.

The conversion of obscure radiant heat info kight; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility. Tyndall.

Chamber; house; -- used in Ca"ma*ra dos Pa"res, and Ca"ma*ra dos De`pu*ta"dos. See Legislature.