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A fop. [Obs.]

made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root. [Also spelt berberry.]

the family Bucconidæ, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa.

or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet. En barbette, In barbette, said of guns when they are elevated so as to fire over the top of a parapet, and not through embrasures. -- Barbette gun, or Barbette battery, a single gun, or a number of guns, mounted in barbette, or part…

An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy.

Money paid for the support of a barbican. [Obs.]

One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers.

A variety of paralysis, peculiar to India and the Malabar coast; -- considered by many to be the same as beriberi in chronic form.

Having a beard; bearded; hairy.

An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.

A white, crystalline substance,

A French school of the middle of the 19th century centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau. Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified, esp. in landsca…

See Barbel.

A paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in relief.

Barbarian. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A very minute barb or beard. Booth.

A popular song or melody sung by Venetian gondoliers.

A vessel for freight; -- used in Mediterranean.

Hence: A poet; as, the bard of Avon.

of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [Often in the pl.]