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Having a bay or bays. "The large bayed barn." Drayton.

-- Bayonet joint, a form of coupling similar to that by which a bayonet is fixed on the barrel of a musket. Knight.

The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended. The doubtful beam long nods from side to side. Pope.

To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness. This age to blossom, and the next to bear. Dryden.

Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare). [Obs. except in North of Eng. and Scot.]

A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.

The bearded loach (Nemachilus barbatus) of Europe. [Scot.]

blessed, or as conferring happiness. The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth. Barrow.

An alkaloid got from the bark of the bebeeru, or green heart of Guiana (Nectandra Rodioei). It is a tonic, antiperiodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine. [Written also bibirine.]

A tropical South American tree (Nectandra Rodioi), the bark of which yields the alkaloid bebeerine, and the wood of which is known as green heart.

A fish of the Mediterranean (Sphyræna spet). See Barracuda.

o besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty. Bedaub foul designs with a fair varnish. Barrow.

irits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment. Bedeviled and used worse than St. Bartholomew. Sterne.

Consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech. "Plain beechen vessels." Dryden.

A fermented liquor made from any malted grain, but commonly from barley malt, with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.

The bur marigold (Bidens) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity.

To command; to order. He behight those gates to be unbarred. Spenser.

The Babylonian name of the god known among the Hebrews as Baal. See Baal. Baruch vi. 41.

ntly; to work carefully upon. "If the earth is belabored with culture, it yieldeth corn." Barrow.

A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith. No man can attain [to] belief by the bare contemplation of heaven and earth. Hooker.