Search the Dictionary

certain physical measurements calculations; conventionally, that pressure under which the barometer stands at 760 millimeters, at a temperature of 0º Centigrade, at the level of the sea, and in the latitude of Paris. Sir W. Thomson.

Attentively. [Obs.] Barrow.

The quality of being authentic; authenticity. [R.] Barrow.

, or acceptance; determinate; commanding. The sacred functions of authoritative teaching. Barrow.

Political independence or absolute sovereignty (of a state); autonomy. Barlow.

to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the plea in bar must avail, that is, be sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease. "What signs avail " Milton. Words avail very little with me, young man. Sir W. Scott.…

to another tribunal. [Obs. or Archaic] One who avocateth his mind from other occupations. Barrow. He, at last, . . . avocated the cause to Rome. Robertson.

A fragment torn off. J. Barlow.

Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing. A long and awkward process. Macaulay. An awkward affair is one that has gone wrong, and is difficult to adjust. C. J. Smith.

The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista. Gray.

A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.

A bar or beam of wood or iron, connecting the opposite wheels of a carriage, on the ends of which the wheels revolve.

The bark of the roots of the azedarach, used as a cathartic and emetic.

An extended upper part, as of a mountain or ridge. [The mountains] their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds. Milton.

sing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar.

Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by canons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian Fre…

To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.

To practice deceit. [Obs.] Barrow.

ks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage. The baronet's baggage on the roof of the coach. Thackeray. We saw our baggage following below. Johnson.

Resembling an acorn; -- applied to a group of barnacles having shells shaped like acorns. See Acornshell, and Barnacle.