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The application of a knowledge of bacteria for their detection and identification, as in the examination of polluted water.

The thorax of Arthropods. Packard.

A peculiar marine worm. See Enteropneusta, and Tornaria.

A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc. Barbados cherry (Bot.), a genus of trees of the West Indies (Malpighia) with an agreeably acid fruit resembling a cherry. -- Barbados leg (Med.), a species of elephantiasis incident to hot climates. -- Barbados nuts, the seeds of the Jatropha curca…

Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates - or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.

Pertaining to, or determined by, the baroscope.

A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field.

A spore borne by a basidium. -- Ba*sid`i*o*spor"ous (, a.

A warlike South African people of the Bantu stock, divided into many tribes, subject to the English. They formerly practiced cannibalism, but have now adopted many European customs.

A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.

Anciently, a post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the clothes from falling off. See Bedstaff. Brewer.

Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious. Arnold was, in fact, in a bellicose vein. W. Irving.

In a bellicose manner.

p. of the deep oceans; hence (Bot. & Zoöl.), the fauna and flora of the sea bottom; -- opposed to plankton.

Guaiacol benzoate, used as an intestinal antiseptic and as a substitute for creosote in phthisis. It is a colorless crystalline pewder.

To reduce to prose. [R.] "To beprose all rhyme." Mallet.

To put in violent motion; to agitate; to disturb; to toss. "My betossed soul." Shak.

Best. [R.] "The bettermost classes." Brougham.

Having two callosities or hard spots. Gray.

Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.