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Antidotal; alexipharmic.

A place where the nourishment and care of babies are offered for hire.

One who keeps a baby farm.

The business of keeping a baby farm.

Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast. Shak.

girl or woman who attends the customers of a bar, as in a tavern or beershop. A bouncing barmaid. W. Irving.

Formerly, a local judge among miners; now, an officer of the barmote. [Eng.]

Apron. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Unreal; illusory. "A sort of Barmecidal feast." Hood.

One who proffers some illusory advantage or benefit. Also used as an adj.: Barmecidal. "A Barmecide feast." Dickens.

A court held in Derbyshire, in England, for deciding controversies between miners. Blount.

Full of barm or froth; in a ferment. "Barmy beer." Dryden.

To charm; to captivate.

ny, in the 16th century. It has a bearded face or mask supposed to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation; -- called also graybeard, longbeard.

n song and dance, of the time of the first French Revolution. They danced and yelled the carmagnole. Compton Reade.

A man whose employment is to drive, or to convey goods in, a car or car.

A friar of a mendicant order (the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel) established on Mount Carmel, in Syria, in the twelfth century; a White Friar.

Of or pertaining to the order of Carmelites.

Of, relating to, or mixed with, carmine; as, carminated lake. Tomlinson.

Expelling wind from the body; warning; antispasmodic. "Carmenative hot seeds." Dunglison.