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To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.

A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.

Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed. Bare in thy guilt, how foul must thou appear ! Milton.

But just; without any excess; with nothing to spare ( of quantity, time, etc.); hence, scarcely; hardly; as, there was barely enough for all; he barely escaped.

also ( when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain.

A little cask, or something resembling one. Smart.

A kind of cutting weapon with a thick back and thin razorlike edge, used by the Moros of the Philippine Islands.

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

A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access.

An any obstruction; anything which hinders approach or attack. "Constitutional barriers." Hopkinson.

A support having handles, and with or without a wheel, on which heavy or bulky things can be transported by hand. See Handbarrow, and Wheelbarrow.

The thing given in exchange.

The heavy interior portion of the earth, within the lithosphere.

The bottom of anything, considered as its support, or that on which something rests for support; the foundation; as, the base of a statue. "The base of mighty mountains." Prescott.

The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests. Dryden.

Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so. That bastard self-love which is so vicious in itself, and productive of so many vices. Barrow.

A quantity of anything produced at one operation; a group or collection of persons or things of the same kind; as, a batch of letters; the next batch of business. "A new batch of Lords." Lady M. W. Montagu.

To allow by way of abatement or deduction. To whom he bates nothing or what he stood upon with the parliament. South.

Water or other liquid for bathing.

rrounds a person immersed. "The rosy shadows bathe me. " Tennyson. "The bright sunshine bathing all the world." Longfellow.