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In bad taste; grotesque; odd.

Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates - or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.

Pertaining to, or determined by, the baroscope.

An instrument for recording both pressure and temperature, as of the atmosphere.

uble seats on the inside arranged so that the sitters on the front seat face those on the back seat.

A kind of light barouche.

A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field.

Same as 3d Bark, n.

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

lly 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 home-made woolen blanket without nap. [Local, New York] Bartlett.

A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily. Du Chaillu.

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

An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile.

A remarkable Australian fresh-water ganoid fish of the genus Ceratodus.

A ravine caused by heavy rains or a watercourse. [Texas & N. Mex.]

A resin, called also galipot.

One guilty of barratry.

Tainter with, or constituting, barratry. -- Bar"ra*trous*ly, adv. Kent.

The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels. [Also spelt barretry.] Coke. Blackstone.