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The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap. She was too fond of her most filthy bargain. Shak. Bargain and sale (Law), a species of conveyance, by which the bargainor contracts to convey the lands to the bargainee, and becomes by such contract a trustee for and seized to the use of the bargainee. Th…

aries for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31

atinum wire loop attached to terminals and inclosed in a small glass or silver bulb. In a later variety, called the liquid barretter, wire is replace by a column of liquid in a very fine capillary tube.

e. Basal cleavage. See under Cleavage. -- Basal plane (Crystallog.), one parallel to the lateral or horizontal axis.

Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal.

A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a visor. [Written also basinet, bassinet, basnet.]

military operations. (b) A line traced round a cannon at the rear of the vent. -- Base plate, the foundation plate of heavy machinery, as of the steam engine; the bed plate. -- Base ring (Ordnance), a projecting band of metal around the breech, connected with the body of the gun by a concave molding. H. L. Scott.…

e base atomically greater than that of the acid, or exceeding in proportion that of the related neutral salt.

A digest of the laws of Justinian, translated from the original Latin into Greek, by order of Basil I., in the ninth century. P. Cyc.

An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.

layed indoors, in which two parties of players contest with each other to toss a large inflated ball into opposite goals resembling baskets.

An edible, spiny-finned fish, esp. of the genera Roccus, Labrax, and related genera. There are many species.

A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall.

A solution in which plates or prints are immersed; also, the receptacle holding the solution.

A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

An armor-plated man-of-war built of steel and heavily armed, generally having from ten thousand to fifteen thousand tons displacement, and intended to be fit to meet the heaviest ships in line of battle.

A tree of the West Indies related to the myrtle (Pimenta acris).

A tree (Pyrus aria) related to the apple.

To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question

age; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.