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Confined to no zone or region; not local.

Of a fine blue color; azure.

Finery of a kind to please a child. [Obs.] "Painted babery." Sir P. Sidney.

A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc.

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.

To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up. He barely looked the idea in the face, and haste…

to, or resembling, an uncivilized person or people; barbarous; barbarian; destitute of refinement. "Wild, barbaric music." Sir W. Scott.

preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root. [Also spelt berberry.]

subjected to the influence of electric waves. The original form consisted of an extremely fine platinum 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.

Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton.

A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything. The ineffective bauble of an Indian pagod. Sheridan.

A fine fellow; -- a term of endearment. [Obs.] "How now, my bawcock " Shak.

Like a beau; characteristic of a beau; foppish; fine. "A beauish young spark." Byrom.

A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse. Abp. Tillotson.

Confined to the bed by sickness or infirmity. "Her decrepit, sick, and bedrid father." Shak. "The estate of a bedridden old gentleman." Macaulay.

A fine genius, or man of wit. "A man of letters and a bel esprit." W. Irving.

nlike kind of decorative pottery with a high gloss, which is sometimes iridescent. A very fine kind is made at Belleek in Ireland.

That which restrains or confines as a girdle. He cannot buckle his distempered cause Within the belt of rule. Shak.

building, or a part of a building, more or less open, constructed in a place commanding a fine prospect.

ver; to overhang. There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully in the confined deep. Shak.