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n the western part of North America; -- called also prairie wolf. Its voice is a snapping bark, followed by a prolonged, shrill howl.

A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States. Bartlett.

A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.

A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel. [Scot.] H. Miller.

A kind of hammer having a head formed of a group of pointed steel bars, used for dressing ashlar, etc. -- v. t.

A bar or set of bars with skewers for holding paying-off bobbins, as in the roving machine, throstle, and mule.

ed whisky, whisky on wich the paiment of duty has been fraudulently evaded. [Slang, U.S.] Barlett.

A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down. Russell. Crossbar shot, a projectile which folds into a sphere for loading, but on leaving the gun expands to a cross with a quarter ball at the end of each arm; -…

A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead.

A bar or timber connecting two knightheads or two bitts.

A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.

A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar. Get me an iron crow, and bring it straight Unto my cell. Shak.

A bar of iron sharpened at one end, and used as a lever.

The topmost part of anything; the summit. The steepy crown of the bare mountains. Dryden.

f being cruel; a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity. Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty. Shak.

To break into small pieces; to cause to fall in pieces. He with his bare wand can unthread thy joints, And crumble all thy sinews. Milton.

usted over with ice. Boyle. And now their legs, and breast, and bodies stood Crusted with bark. Addison. Very foul and crusted bottles. Swift. Their minds are crusted over, like diamonds in the rock. Felton.

The rough, shaggy part of oak bark.

lture. Italy . . . was but imperfectly reduced to cultivation before the irruption of the barbarians. Hallam.

The bark of a South American vine (Gonolobus Condurango) of the Milkweed family. It has been supposed, but erroneously, to be a cure for cancer. [Written also condurango.]