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Producing balsam.

A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots are produced upon cloth previously dyed of a uniform red or dark color, by discharging portions of the color by chemical means, while the rest of the cloth is under pressure. Ure.

The sound produced by a sudden concussion.

n infant. [Slightly contemptuous or depreciatory.] In what out of the way corners genius produces her bantlings. W. Irving.

A drilling or tamping rod.

The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduces from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.

nts, having a bed of tanner's bark (called a bark bed) or other fermentable matter which produces a moist heat.

The alkali produced from the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching purposes.

A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables. Barn owl (Zoöl.), an owl of Europe and America (Aluco flammeus, or Strix flammea), which frequents barns and other buildings. -- Barn swallow (Zoöl.), the common A…

f the ear (Anat.), the tympanum, or tympanic cavity. -- Barrel organ, an instrument for producing music by the action of a revolving cylinder. -- Barrel vault. See under Vault.

Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- She was barren of children. Bp. Hall.

Unfruitfully; unproductively.

The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness. A total barrenness of invention. Dryden.

a nitida), from Angola and the Gaboon in Africa. It is used as a dyewood, and also for ramrods, violin bows and turner's work.

A by-product from the manufacture of steel by the basic process, used as a fertilizer. It is rich in lime and contains 14 to 20 per cent of phosphoric acid. Called also Thomas slag, phosphatic slag, and odorless phosphate.

Steel produced by the basic process.

enuine, but are really not so. That bastard self-love which is so vicious in itself, and productive of so many vices. Barrow.

A quantity of anything produced at one operation; a group or collection of persons or things of the same kind; as, a batch of letters; the next batch of business. "A new batch of Lords." Lady M. W. Montagu.

The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship.

Fertile; fruitful; productive. [Obs.] A battel soil for grain, for pasture good. Fairfax.