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rring in triclinic crystals approaching pyroxene in angle, and of a greenish black color. It is a silicate of iron, manganese, and lime.

To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (as absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent). Spenser.

One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.

Secret slander; detraction. Backbiting, and bearing of false witness. Piers Plowman.

A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.

A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite.

A light or hasty luncheon. Bait bug (Zoöl), a crustacean of the genus Hippa found burrowing in sandy beaches. See Anomura.

One who baits; a tormentor.

A fossil balanoid shell.

A smokeless powder containing equal parts of soluble nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin.

rivial; the commonplace, in speech. The highest things were thus brought down to the banalities of discourse. J. Morley.

An outlaw; a brigand. No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. Milton.

The act of expulsion.[Obs.] Abp. Laud.

Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity. Treating Christians with a barbarity which would have shocked the very Moslem. Macaulay.

An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.

A white, crystalline substance,

Native sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular), also in granular form, and in compact massive forms resembling marble. It has a high specific gravity, and hence is often called heavy spar. It is a common mineral in metallic veins.…

See Barytone.

A member of a religious order, named from St. Barnabas.

A mineral of a white or gray color, occurring massive or crystallized. It is a compound of the carbonates of barium and calcium.