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The pomegranate tree (Punica granatum). The bark of the root, the rind of the fruit, and the flowers are used medicinally.

Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal. In the preface to his own bald translation. Dryden.

in, uprightness, steadiness, and security. It [piety] is the right ballast of prosperity. Barrow. Ballast engine, a steam engine used in excavating and for digging and raising stones and gravel for ballast. -- Ship in ballast, a ship carring only ballast.

A barbed dart carrying a banderole which the banderillero thrusts into the neck or shoulder of the bull in a bullfight.

A kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; -- used in Scotland and the northern counties of England. Jamieson. Bannock fluke, the turbot. [Scot.]

A variety of small barnyard fowl, with feathered legs, probably brought from Bantam, a district of Java.

A rustic play; -- called also prisoner's base, prison base, or bars. "To run the country base." Shak.

The skin of a sheep tanned with bark.

A bar of cartilage at the base of the embryonic fins of some fishes. It develops into the metapterygium. -- Ba*sip`ter*yg"i*al (, a.

; pl. Bass, and sometimes Basses. Etym: [A corruption of barse.] (Zoöl.)

The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom.

o. That bastard self-love which is so vicious in itself, and productive of so many vices. Barrow.

A part of a brick with one whole end. Bat bolt (Machinery), a bolt barbed or jagged at its butt or tang to make it hold the more firmly. Knight.

o remove. [Obs.] About autumn bate the earth from about the roots of olives, and lay them bare. Holland.

stardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister.

To make fertile. [Obs.] "To battel barren land." Ray.

The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.

pments. In the United States, a battery of flying artillery consists usually of six guns. Barbette battery. See Barbette. -- Battery d'enfilade, or Enfilading battery, one that sweeps the whole length of a line of troops or part of a work. -- Battery en écharpe, one that plays obliquely. -- Battery gun, a gun capabl…

A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks.

A bolt with a barbed shank.