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Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in a church, or other place prescribed by law, in order that any person may object, if he knows of just cause why the marriage should not take place.

A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door. Thou shalt make bars of shittim wood. Ex. xxvi. 26.…

for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States; -- also improperly called whiting.

which represent the various forms of the syllogism. It indicates a syllogism whose three propositions are universal affirmatives. Whately.

Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See Barded ( which is the proper form.) Sir W. Raleigh.

An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration. A contract is a bargain that is legally binding. Wharton.…

The party to a contract who receives, or agrees to receive, the property sold. Blackstone.

ho makes a bargain, or contracts with another; esp., one who sells, or contracts to sell, property to another. Blackstone.

The proprietor or manager of a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.

A form or mode of syllogism of which the first proposition is a universal affirmative, and the other two are particular negative.

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.

Low relief; sculpture, the figures of which project less than half of their true proportions; -- called also bassrelief and basso- rilievo. See Alto-rilievo.

the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids.

cess, or the amount of the base atomically greater than that of the acid, or exceeding in proportion that of the related neutral salt.

The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital. [Improperly so used.] Gwilt.

Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin. [Obs.]

flat-bottomed, clumsy boat used on the Canadian lakes and rivers. [Written also, but less properly, batteau.] Bateau bridge, a floating bridge supported by bateaux.

mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay. Sick bay, in vessels of war, that part of a deck appropriated to the use of the sick. Totten.

Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse. Blind bayard moves the mill. Philips.

Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.