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To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail.

on fish; -- so called from a sharp lancetlike spine on each side of the tail. Also called barber fish. See Surgeon fish.

A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton from the cards. Ure.

bad; hence, in the plural, conduct; behavior. See Do. To render an account of his doings. Barrow.

Barrel-shaped, or like a cask in form.

A character in Dickens's novel "Barnaby Rudge," a beautiful, lively, and coquettish girl who wore a cherry-colored mantle and cherry-colored ribbons.

Lady; a lady; -- a title formerly given to noble ladies who held a barony in their own right. Burrill.

mbled at the house of some one, as of a clergyman, each one bringing some present. [U.S.] Bartlett.

It is done or agreed; let it be a match or bargain; -- used elliptically. Done brown, a phrase in cookery; applied figuratively to one who has been thoroughly deceived, cheated, or fooled. [Colloq.] -- Done for, tired out; used up; collapsed; destroyed; dead; killed. [Colloq.] -- Done up. (a) Wrapped up. (b) Worn out;…

The frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house or apartment is closed and opened. At last he came unto an iron door That fast was locked. Spenser.

A silly fellow; a dupe; a gull. Barrow.

rs in answer to the declaration, where either of such matters alone would be a sufficient bar to the action. Stephen. -- Double point (Geom.), a point of a curve at which two branches cross each other. Conjugate or isolated points of a curve are called double points, since they possess most of the properties of double…

Having two barrels; -- applied to a gun.

The bar, or crosspiece, of a carriage, to which the singletrees are attached.

Declivity; descent; slope. On th' icy downhills of this slippery life. Du Bartas (Trans. ).

To fish with a long line and rod; as, to drabble for barbels.

A shop or barroom where spirits are sold by the dram.

the air is rarefied by heat. -- On draught, so as to be drawn from the wood (as a cask, barrel, etc.) in distinction from being bottled; as, ale on draught. -- Sheer draught. See under Sheer.

An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train.

To enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it.