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The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in open court.

But just; without any excess; with nothing to spare ( of quantity, time, etc.); hence, scarcely; hardly; as, there was barely enough for all; he barely escaped.

rovided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; and hence, any large hall used for this purpose.

from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc.

A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed.

Unworthy of; unbefitting; beneath. They beheld, with a just loathing and disdain, . . . how below all history the persons and their actions were. Milton. Who thinks no fact below his regard. Hallam.

The seat where judges sit in court. To pluck down justice from your awful bench. Shak.

n guilty of some contempt, or indicted for some crime; -- so called in distinction from a justice's warrant.

isting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; -- called also a bevel square. Gwilt.

; to prepossess. Me it had not biased in the one direction, nor should it have biased any just critic in the counter direction. De. Quincey.

ng or fastening ropes. Bollard timber (Naut.), a timber, also called a knighthead, rising just within the stem in a ship, on either side of the bowsprit, to secure its end.

A molding, the convexity of which is one fourth of a circle, being a member just below the abacus in the Tuscan and Roman Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo.

sis. -- Weaning brash (Med.), a severe form of diarrhea which sometimes attacks children just weaned.

witness, voter, or other person in a position of trust. Undue reward for anything against justice is a bribe. Hobart.

A man newly married, or just about to be married.

The adjustable socket, or step, of a millstone spindle. Knight.

ce; to draw to. There is nothing will bring you more honor . . . than to do what right in justice you may. Bacon.

prodigious shoals of volunteers gone over to bully the French, upon hearing the peace was just signing. Tatler.

A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping.

A parenthetic flourish or flight of ornament in the course of a piece, commonly just before the final cadence.