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The party to a contract who receives, or agrees to receive, the property sold. Blackstone.

A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes.

A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings. He lodged in a miserable hut or barrack, composed of dry branches and thatched with straw. Gibbon.

A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.

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

A kind of cap formerly worn by soldiers; -- called also barret cap. Also, the flat cap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics.

Any bar, obstruction, or means of defense. Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere. Derham.

t the bar, and undertake the public trial of causes, as distinguished from an attorney or solicitor. See Attorney. [Eng.]

A room containing a bar or counter at which liquors are sold.

A soldier belonging to the irregular troops of the Turkish army.

An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.

punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet.

An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer. Knight.

A solution in which plates or prints are immersed; also, the receptacle holding the solution.

One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.

h liquids heavier than water, sinks to 0º in pure water, and to 15º in a 15 per cent salt solution; the other, for liquids lighter than water, sinks to 0º in a 10 per cent salt solution and to 10º in pure water. In both cases the graduation, based on the distance between these fundamental points, is continued along the…

nstrument of the dagger kind fitted on the muzzle of a musket or rifle, so as to give the soldier increased means of offense and defense.

open-mouthed, thin glass vessel, having a projecting lip for pouring; -- used for holding solutions requiring heat. Knight.

To oppose to the gills; to set at defiance. No admiral, bearded by three corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial. Macaulay.

A cap made of bearskin, esp. one worn by soldiers.