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A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to bearer on demand.

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

was too fond of her most filthy bargain. Shak. Bargain and sale (Law), a species of conveyance, by which the bargainor contracts to convey the lands to the bargainee, and becomes by such contract a trustee for and seized to the use of the bargainee. The statute then completes the purchase; i.e., the bargain vests the…

A large, roomy boat for the conveyance of passengers or goods; as, a ship's barge; a charcoal barge.

ld or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.

A farmyard. [Eng.] Southey.

A passage into a field or yard, closed by bars made to take out of the posts.

The secondary, inferior, or rear courtyard of a large house; the outer court of a castle.

Royal; kingly; also, basilican.

the fire of small arms is very destructive. With the magazine rifle, this is six hundred yards.

ty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc. Beast royal, the lion. [Obs.] Chaucer.

iece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground. "Beds of hyacinth and roses." Milton.

ed; an apartment form sleeping in. Shak. Lords of the bedchamber, eight officers of the royal household, all of noble families, who wait in turn a week each. [Eng.] -- Ladies of the bedchamber, eight ladies, all titled, holding a similar official position in the royal household, during the reign of a queen. [Eng.]…

To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor. Totten. To bend the brow, to knit the brow, as in deep thought or in anger; to scowl; to frown. Camden.

kinds of ironware. Ure. -- Berlin blue, Prussian blue. Ure. -- Berlin green, a complex cyanide of iron, used as a green dye, and similar to Prussian blue. -- Berlin iron, a very fusible variety of cast iron, from which figures and other delicate articles are manufactured. These are often stained or lacquered in imit…

, or would otherwise be concealed. All the names in the country betray great antiquity. Bryant.

Betrayal. [R.] Udall.

Betrayal. [R.]

A person who tricks a creditor; an untrustworthy, tricky person. Marryat.

nated a certain sum of money therein generally is, and, to be negotiable, must be, made payable to order or to bearer. So also the order generally expresses a specified time of payment, and that it is drawn for value. The person who draws the bil is called the drawer, the person on whom it is drawn is, before acceptanc…