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A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. Fielding.

A building comprising a number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.

The quality of standing apart.

Smartweed; water pepper. Dr. Prior.

Pertaining to, or derived, asparagine; as, aspartic acid.

iece of land cleared of trees and bushes, and fitted for cultivation; a clearing. Ash. Assart land, forest land cleared of woods and brush.

Same as Astert. [Obs.]

A genus of bivalve mollusks, common on the coasts of America and Europe.

Disconnected; not fitted or adjusted. -- A*syn"ar*tet"ic, a. Asynartete verse (Pros.), a verse of two members, having different rhythms; as when the first consists of iambuses and the second of trochees.

Across; from side to side of. Athwart the thicket lone. Tennyson.

A barkeeper.

To trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; -- sometimes followed by away; as, to barter away goods or honor.

One who barters.

Barter. [Obs.] Camden.

A place of shelter for cattle. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Time of the festival of St. Bartholomew, August 24th. Shak.

A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.

A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchrétien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.

The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself. [Eng.] Burton.

See Bertram. Johnson.