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Formerly, a local judge among miners; now, an officer of the barmote. [Eng.]

A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc. [Local, U.S.]

A home-made woolen blanket without nap. [Local, New York] Bartlett.

A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds. Simmonds.

A tract covered with bay trees. [Local, U. S.] Bay leaf, the leaf of the bay tree (Laurus nobilis). It has a fragrant odor and an aromatic taste.

Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind. "Bear interchanges in local use, now with barley, now with bigg." New English Dict.

the sense of the word as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source.

The nest of a small swallow (Collocalia nidifica and several allied species), of China and the neighboring countries, which is mixed with soups.

A law made by husbandmen respecting rural affairs; a rustic or local law or by-law. [Written also byrlaw, birlie, birley.]

ck sea bass (Centropristis atrarius) of the Atlantic coast. It is excellent food fish; -- locally called also black Harry.

A blustering, talkative fellow. [Local slang, U. S.] Barllett.

A tin dinner pail. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

A bowl or vessel made from a gourd. [Local, New York] Bartlett.

A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp. [Local, U. S.] Bog bean. See Buck bean. -- Bog bumper (bump, to make a loud noise), Bog blitter, Bog bluiter, Bog jumper, the bittern. [Prov.] -- Bog butter, a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found in the peat bogs of Ireland. -- B…

A bogey. [Local, Eng.]

To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of. [Local, U. S.]

A liquor made of rum and molasses. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

The wintergreern. (Gaultheria procumbens). [Local, U.S.]

other similar organizations, which are now worldwide. In "The Boy Scouts of America" the local councils are generally under a scout commissioner, under whose supervision are scout masters, each in charge of a troop of two or more patrols of eight scouts each, who are of three classes, tenderfoot, second-class scout, a…

Buckwheat. [Local, Eng.] Halliwell.