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long scale, for measuring heights. -- Siphon barometer, a barometer having a tube bent like a hook with the longer leg closed at the top. The height of the mercury in the longer leg shows the pressure of the atmosphere. -- Wheel barometer, a barometer with recurved tube, and a float, from which a cord passes over a…

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

A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant.

A voracious pikelike, marine fish, of the genus Sphyræna, sometimes used as food.

Formed like basalt; basaltiform.

To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower. [Obs.] If any . . . based his pike. Sir T. North.

r in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striking the ball.

, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice. Make me not sighted like the basilisk. Shak.

the arms much branched. See Astrophyton. -- Basket hilt, a hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork to protect the hand. Hudibras. Hence, Baskethilted, a. -- Basket work, work consisting of plaited osiers or twigs. -- Basket worm (Zoöl.), a lepidopterous insect of the genus Thyridopteryx and allied genera, esp.…

A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor. Brown bastard is your only drink. Shak.

Bastardlike; baseborn; spuripous; corrupt. [Obs.] -- adv.

A warlike South African people of the Bantu stock, divided into many tribes, subject to the English. They formerly practiced cannibalism, but have now adopted many European customs.

To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat. Holland.

Shaped like a bat's wing; as, a bat's-wing burner.

dy, for purposes of cleanliness, comfort, health, etc., to water, vapor, hot air, or the like; as, a cold or a hot bath; a medicated bath; a steam bath; a hip bath.

Froglike. Specifically: Of or pertaining to the Batrachidæ, a family of marine fishes, including the toadfish. Some have poisonous dorsal spines.

Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike. Spenser. -- n.

Arrayed for battle; fit or eager for battle; warlike. [Obs.] "In battailous aspect." Milton.

The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.

, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock.