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To practice deceit. [Obs.] Barrow.

To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope.

A narrow opening, often cruciform, through which arrows might be discharged.

n, uprightness, steadiness, and security. It [piety] is the right ballast of prosperity. Barrow. Ballast engine, a steam engine used in excavating and for digging and raising stones and gravel for ballast. -- Ship in ballast, a ship carring only ballast.

A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or confined; a fetter. Every one's bands were loosed. Acis xvi 26.

A narrow band or fillet; a part of a head-dress. Around the edge of this cap was a stiff bandeau of leather. Sir W. Scott.

A narrow window seat; a raised shelf at the back or the top of a buffet or dresser.

An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field.

The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else. "Having two barbs or points." Ascham.

Furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire. Barbed wire, a wire, or a strand of twisted wires, armed with barbs or sharp points. It is used for fences.

. That bastard self-love which is so vicious in itself, and productive of so many vices. Barrow.

A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.

A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.

lessed, or as conferring happiness. The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth. Barrow.

besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty. Bedaub foul designs with a fair varnish. Barrow.

tly; to work carefully upon. "If the earth is belabored with culture, it yieldeth corn." Barrow.

A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future. Encyc. Brit.

A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea.

A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.

A narrow shelf or path between the bottom of a parapet and the ditch.