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Toward, or in, past time or events; ago. Some reigns backward. Locke.

A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface.

reant knight. [Obs.] He by the heels him hung upon a tree, And baffled so, that all which passed by The picture of his punishment might see. Spenser.

To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail. Balanced valve. See Balance valve, under Balance, n.

o espy the shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass; a conder; a huer.

A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets, etc.

A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring. Gwilt.

To pass by the banks of. [Obs.] Shak. To bank a fire, To bank up a fire, to cover the coals or embers with ashes or cinders, thus keeping the fire low but alive.

A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept.

A paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in relief.

A large, roomy boat for the conveyance of passengers or goods; as, a ship's barge; a charcoal barge.

ssile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle. Barnacle eater (Zoöl.), the orange filefish. -- Barnacle scale (Zoöl.), a bark louse (Ceroplastes cirripediformis) of the orange and quince trees in Florida. The female scale c…

here. -- Wheel barometer, a barometer with recurved tube, and a float, from which a cord passes over a pulley and moves an index.

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

To fortify or close with a barricade or with barricades; to stop up, as a passage; to obstruct; as, the workmen barricaded the streets of Paris. The further end whereof [a bridge] was barricaded with barrels. Hakluyt.

A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy.

A passage into a field or yard, closed by bars made to take out of the posts.

A male voice, the compass of which partakes of the common bass and the tenor, but which does not descend as low as the one, nor rise as high as the other.

A Turkish title of honor, now written pasha. See Pasha.

The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.