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ice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels. [Also spelt barretry.] Coke. Blackstone.

A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead; a tumulus.

Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal.

Deep or grave in sound; as, the base tone of a violin. [In this sense, commonly written bass.]

A bass, or deep, sound or tone.

A modification of the bassoon, much deeper in tone.

he half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book. Bastard ashlar (Arch.), stones for ashlar work, roughly squared at the quarry. -- Bastard file, a file intermediate between the coarsest and the second cut. -- Bastard type (Print.), type having the face of a larger or a smaller size than the body; e.g.…

nt as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock. Blackstone.

one pound of copper. -- Bath note, a folded writing paper, 8 1/2 by 14 inches. -- Bath stone, a species of limestone (oölite) found near Bath, used for building.

Impure limestone. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure. [Obs.] Spenser.

Deep-toned, prolonged barking. "The bay of curs." Cowper.

oned in the Bible (Gen. ii. 12, and Num. xi. 7), variously taken to be a gum, a precious stone, or pearls, or perhaps a kind of amber found in Arabia.

light open wagon with two or more seats. -- Raised beach, an accumulation of water-worn stones, gravel, sand, and other shore deposits, above the present level of wave action, whether actually raised by elevation of the coast, as in Norway, or left by the receding waters, as in many lake and river regions.…

greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison. A beating wind (Naut.), a wind which necessitates tacking in order to make progress. -- To beat about, to try to find; to search by various means or ways. Addison. -- To beat about…

Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting. A low and becoming tone. Thackeray.

The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds.

alled the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages. -- Bel*em*nit"ic, a.

A nearly cubical block of some tough stone, esp. granite, used as a material for street pavements. Its usual diameter is 5 to 7 inches.

A stoneware jug of a pattern originated in the neighborhood of Cologne, Germany, in the 16th century. It has a bearded face or mask supposed to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation; -- called also graybeard, longbeard.