Search the Dictionary

ontend in petulant altercation; to wrangle. Petty things about which men cark and bicker. Barrow.

A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.

Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind. "Bear interchanges in local use, now with barley, now with bigg." New English Dict.

A long bar or bolt of iron with sliding shackles, and a lock at the end, to confine the feet of prisoners or offenders, esp. on board of ships. Methought I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. Shak.

A short bar of metal, as of gold or iron.

Bullion in the bar or mass.

A flat-bottomed river barge or coasting vessel. [Eng.]

A large species of barbel (Barbus bynni), found in the Nile, and much esteemed for food.

bes joining, so as to enable a person to view an object with both eyes at once; a double- barreled field glass or an opera glass.

A birch-bark canoe. Birch of Jamaica, a species (Bursera gummifera) of turpentine tree. -- Birch partridge. (Zoöl.) See Ruffed grouse. -- Birch wine, wine made of the spring sap of the birch. -- Oil of birch. (a) An oil obtained from the bark of the common European birch (Betula alba), and used in the preparation of…

An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeared with this substance it will hold small birds which may light upon it. Hence: Anything which insnares. Not birdlime or Idean pitch produce A more tenacious mass of clammy…

The day in which any person is born; day of origin or commencement. Those barbarous ages past, succeeded next The birthday of invention. Cowper.

at which, bites; that which bites often, or is inclined to bite, as a dog or fish. "Great barkers are no biters." Camden.

The Quercus nigra, or barren oak.

A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe.

Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror. Blank bar (Law), a plea put in to oblige the plaintiff in an action of trespass to assign the certain place where the trespass was committed; -- called also common bar. -- Blank cartridge, a cartridge containing no ball. -- Blank deed. See Deed. -- Blank door, or Blank…

A blustering, talkative fellow. [Local slang, U. S.] Barllett.

A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark. Three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single blaze a settlement or neighborhood road. Carlton. In a blaze, on fire; burning with a flame; filled with, giving, or reflecting light; e…

The part of a tree which lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.

To grow or make pale. Barbour.