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

A little cask, or something resembling one. Smart.

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.

Symbol, Ba. Its oxide called baryta. [Rarely written barytum.]

To strip the bark from; to peel.

eetle of many species (family Scolytidæ), which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees, often doing great damage.

An insect of the family Coccidæ, which infests the bark of trees and vines.

erly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind. Byron.

Same as Barkentine.

Prevented from growing, by having the bark too firm or close.

One who keeps or tends a bar for the sale of liquors.

Made of bark. [Poetic] Whittier.

vessel, having the foremast square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc.] See Illust. in Append.

An animal that barks; hence, any one who clamors unreasonably.

A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from apertures in hollow horizontal arms, causing the machine to revolve on its axis.

A tanhouse.

Instruments used in taking off the bark of trees. Gardner.

Destitute of bark.

Covered with, or containing, bark. "The barky fingers of the elm." Shak.