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bstance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of lead; a bar of soap.

tions; foreign; -- often with reference to barbarous nations of east. "Barbaric pearl and gold." Milton.

Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste.[Obs.] Barbarous gold. Dryden.

A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.

or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal.

Of little comparative value, as metal inferior to gold and silver, the precious metals.

ie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat. Basks in the glare, and stems the tepid wave. Goldsmith.

The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach. [Eng.] Goldsmith. Basket fish (Zoöl.), an ophiuran of the genus Astrophyton, having the arms much branched. See Astrophyton. -- Basket hilt, a hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork to protect the hand. Hudibras. Hence, Baskethilted, a. -- Ba…

The richest kind of stuff used in garments in the Middle Ages, the web being gold, and the woof silk, with embroidery : -- made originally at Bagdad. [Spelt also baudkin, baudkyn, bawdekin, and baldakin.] Nares.

Emitting beams of light; radiant; shining. "Beamy gold." Tickell.

at a drum. Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small. Ex. xxx. 36. They did beat the gold into thin plates. Ex. xxxix. 3.

ade smooth by beating or treading; worn by use. "A broad and beaten way." Milton. "Beaten gold." Shak.

pboard, or sideboard for plate, china, glass, etc.; a buffet. A beaufet . . . filled with gold and silver vessels. Prescott.

call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to. [Archaic] When gold and silver becks me to come on. Shak.

To sprinkle, as with drops. The yellow carp, in scales bedropped with gold. Pope.

An advance of; farther onward, in place or time. The golden age . . . is before us. Carlyle.

The bur marigold (Bidens) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity.

ountry between the Rhine, the Seine, and the ocean. How unlike their Belgic sires of old. Goldsmith.

person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt. The shining belt with gold inlaid. Dryden.

To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub. Beplastered with rouge. Goldsmith.