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Sloping from left to right; -- said of handwriting.

To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring. [Western U.S.]

To make the sums of the debits and credits of an account equal; -- said of an item; as, this payment, or credit, balances the account.

Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See Barded ( which is the proper form.) Sir W. Raleigh.

tification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet. En barbette, In barbette, said of guns when they are elevated so as to fire over the top of a parapet, and not through embrasures. -- Barbette gun, or Barbette battery, a single gun, or a number of guns, mounted in barbette, or partially protected by a pa…

Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse.

To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; -- said of some animals, but especially of dogs.

ceous plant of the Barberry family (Epimedium alpinum), having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific.

Traversed by barrulets or small bars; -- said of the field.

, Divided into bars; -- said of the field.

Having the nerves radiating from the base; -- said of leaves.

Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt. Basic salt (Chem.), a salt formed from a base or hydroxide by the partial replacement of its hydrogen by a negative or acid element or radical.

A game at cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have been invented at Venice. Some dress, some dance, some play, not to forget Your piquet parties, and your dear basset. Rowe.

Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes. [Obs.] It [a garment] is al bawdy and to-tore also. Chaucer.

A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general. On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be field. Spenser. It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are direc…

The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another.

To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons. [Obs.] Bear them to my house. Shak.

, having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond.

rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison. A beating wind (Naut.), a wind which necessitates tacking in order to make progress. -- To beat about, to try to find; to search by various means or ways. Addiso…

n character or circumstances; to be worthy of, or proper for; to cause to appear well; -- said of persons and things. It becomes me so to speak of so excellent a poet. Dryden. I have known persons so anxious to have their dress become them, as to convert it, at length, into their proper self, and thus actually to becom…