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erly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind. Byron.

Same as Barkentine.

Prevented from growing, by having the bark too firm or close.

One who keeps or tends a bar for the sale of liquors.

Made of bark. [Poetic] Whittier.

vessel, having the foremast square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc.] See Illust. in Append.

An animal that barks; hence, any one who clamors unreasonably.

A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from apertures in hollow horizontal arms, causing the machine to revolve on its axis.

A tanhouse.

Instruments used in taking off the bark of trees. Gardner.

Destitute of bark.

Covered with, or containing, bark. "The barky fingers of the elm." Shak.

rdeum, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky. Barley bird (Zoöl.), the siskin. -- Barley sugar, sugar boiled till it is brittle (formerly with a decoction of barley) and candied. -- Barley water, a decoction of barley, used in medicine, as a nutritive and demulcent.…

Liquor made from barley; strong ale. [Humorous] [Scot.] Burns.

An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley, or other grain, in which some of the party attempt to catch others who run from a goal.

A grain or "corn" of barley.

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

A 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.