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e, as between two pillars, or upon a straight line, so that when his four feet are in the air, he shows only the shoes of his hind feet, without jerking out.

by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.

by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.

A glutinous pomatum for the fair.

cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair). His hair banged even with his eyebrows. The Century Mag.

. How the ancient Celtic tongue came to be banished from the Low Countries in Scotland. Blair.

A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.

A European bat (Barbastellus communis), with hairy lips.

Bearded; beset with long and weak hairs.

A social entertainment, where many people assemble, usually in the open air, at which one or more large animals are roasted or broiled whole.

Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point. Gray.

Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs.

One whose occupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and to cut and dress the hair of his patrons. Barber's itch. See under Itch.

A variety of small dog, having long curly hair.

Having a beard; bearded; hairy.

fficult to obtain the pure metal, from the facility with which it becomes oxidized in the air. Atomic weight,

A pair of pistols. [Slang]

A child. [Obs.] See Bairn.

bridge, which is opened by sinking the counterpoise and thus lifting the footway into the air.

A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century. [Written also baslard.] Fairholt.