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arn a family of the approaching death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice.

he like. [Archaic] If they banter your regularity, order, and love of study, banter in return their neglect of them. Chatham.

lines. For the sake of distinguishing the feet more clearly, I have barred them singly. Burney.

A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners. [Obs.]

Furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire. Barbed wire, a wire, or a strand of twisted wires, armed with barbs or sharp points. It is used for fences.

arge fresh-water fish ( Barbus vulgaris) found in many European rivers. Its upper jaw is furnished with four barbels.

Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture. "A bare treasury." Dryden.

A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.

A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes.

Liquor made from barley; strong ale. [Humorous] [Scot.] Burns.

To lay up in a barn. [Obs.] Shak. Men . . . often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain. Fuller.

The whole body of barons or peers. The baronage of the kingdom. Bp. Burnet.

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

e architectural design, as of a monument; also, the lower part of any elaborate piece of furniture or decoration.

A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc.

Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.

Shaped like a bat's wing; as, a bat's-wing burner.

eral species of fishes: (a) The Malthe vespertilio of the Atlantic coast. (b) The flying gurnard of the Atlantic (Cephalacanthus spinarella). (c) The California batfish or sting ray (Myliobatis Californicus.)

To furnish or fasten with battens. To batten down, to fasten down with battens, as the tarpaulin over the hatches of a ship during a storm.

a. It is largely used in the preparation of aluminium and alumina, and for the lining of furnaces which are exposed to intense heat.