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The place in court where prisoners are stationed for arraignment, trial, or sentence.

arbados nuts, the seeds of the Jatropha curcas, a plant growing in South America and elsewhere. The seeds and their acrid oil are used in medicine as a purgative. See Physic nut.

A foreigner. [Historical] Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.

A social entertainment, where many people assemble, usually in the open air, at which one or more large animals are roasted or broiled whole.

n, treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified, esp. in landscapes, by Corot, Rousseau, Daubigny, Jules Dupré, and Diaz. Associated with them are certain painters of animals, as Troyon and Jaque, and of peasant life, as Millet and Jules Breton.…

y excess; with nothing to spare ( of quantity, time, etc.); hence, scarcely; hardly; as, there was barely enough for all; he barely escaped.

A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable. Gwilt.

Of or pertaining to weight, esp. to the weight or pressure of the atmosphere as measured by the barometer.

To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries. They bark, and say the Scripture maketh heretics. Tyndale. Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed. Fuller.

An instrument for determining the weight or pressure of the atmosphere, and hence for judging of the probable changes of weather, or for ascertaining the height of any ascent.

ll orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners.

he English hundred, and supposed to have been originally the district of a native chief. There are 252 of these baronies. In Scotland, an extensive freehold. It may be held by a commoner. Brande & C.

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.

An instrument for recording both pressure and temperature, as of the atmosphere.

A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily. Du Chaillu.

e. Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere. Derham.

Illegitimate by birth; bastard. [Archaic] Why bastard wherefore base Shak.

of a king; but afterward, an apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; and hence, any large hall used for this purpose.

Of, relating to, or resembling, a basilica; basilical. There can be no doubt that the first churches in Constantinople were in the basilican form. Milman.

An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.