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A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent. Jacob.

A crystalline globulin, contained in oat kernels, very similar in composition to excelsin, but different in reactions and crystalline form.

ia, in Italy, famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets to be connected with the infernal regions.

The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting a region.

n drunken revels; one who is noisy and riotous when intoxicated; a carouser. "Tipsy bacchanals." Shak.

A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.

to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness. Even bacchanalian madness has its charms. Cowper.

The practice of bacchanalians; bacchanals; drunken revelry.

Playful raillery; banter. "He . . . indulged himself only in an elegant badinage." Warburton.

To stammer. [Obs.]

Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.

r trivial; the commonplace, in speech. The highest things were thus brought down to the banalities of discourse. J. Morley.

A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.

, benzine, and a little pyroxylin, it contains amyl acetate, which gives it the odor of bananas.

The territory governed by a ban.

A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form.

See Barbicanage.

Money paid for the support of a barbican. [Obs.]

A member of a religious order, named from St. Barnabas.

esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle. Barnacle eater (Zoöl.), the orange filefish. -- Barnacle scale (Zoöl.), a bark louse (Ceroplastes cirripediformis) of the orange and quince trees in Florida. Th…