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A native or natives of Bern.

A bernicle goose. [Written also barnacle.] Bernicle goose (Zoöl.), a goose (Branta leucopsis), of Arctic Europe and America. It was formerly believed that it hatched from the cirripeds of the sea (Lepas), which were, therefore, called barnacles, goose barnacles, or Anatifers. The name is also applied to other related s…

Some as Burnoose.

To rob; to plunder. [Obs.]

A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, belonging to the Ctenophora.

A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green. [Also spelt beretta, biretta, etc.]

Furnished with berries; consisting of a berry; baccate; as, a berried shrub.

Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.

A seeking for or gathering of berries, esp. of such as grow wild.

An Egyptian clover (Trifolium alexandrinum) extensively cultivated as a forage plant and soil-renewing crop in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called also Egyptian clover.

One who fights as if frenzied, like a Berserker.

See Bristle. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.

A kind of collar or cape worn by ladies.

A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.

A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-gray color.

The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake. Smyth.

A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.

Pellitory of Spain (Anacyclus pyrethrum).

Of or pertaining to the Berycidæ, a family of marine fishes.