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An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family (Epimedium alpinum), having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific.

A fence or railing to mark the limits of a place, or to keep back a crowd. No sooner were the barriers opened, than he paced into the lists. Sir W. Scott.

Of humble birth; or low degree; lowly; mean. [Archaic] "A pleasant and base swain." Bacon.

The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach. [Eng.] Goldsmith. Basket fish (Zoöl.), an ophiuran of the genus Astrophyton, having the arms much branched. See Astrophyton. -- Basket hilt, a hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork to protect the hand. Hudibras. Hence, Baskethilted, a. -- Ba…

To bastardize. [Obs.] Bacon.

a stick; to cudgel. One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters. Pepys.

To flutter as a hawk; to bait. [Obs.] Bacon.

A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope. Batter rule, an instrument consisting of a rule or frame, and a plumb line, by which the batter or slope of a wall is regulated in building.

A division of an army; a battalion. [Obs.] The king divided his army into three battles. Bacon. The cavalry, by way of distinction, was called the battle, and on it alone depended the fate of every action. Robertson.

A bank or dam to keep back water.

n shallow pits or basins, by the heat of the sun; the large crystalline salt of commerce. Bacon. Ure.

which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam.

To gain or win. [Obs.] Some think to bear it by speaking a great word. Bacon. She was . . . found not guilty, through bearing of friends and bribing of the judge. Latimer.

A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.

] -- To beat into, to teach or instill, by repetition. -- To beat off, to repel or drive back. -- To beat out, to extend by hammering. -- To beat out of a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give it up. "Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day." South. -- To beat the dust. (Man.) (a) To take in…

A vat. See Back.

To place in a bed. [Obs.] Bacon.

A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed.

A sore on the back or hips caused by lying for a long time in bed.

The front or the back part of the frame of a bedstead. [Obs. or Dial. Eng.]