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The place in court where prisoners are stationed for arraignment, trial, or sentence.

Barbados nuts, the seeds of the Jatropha curcas, a plant growing in South America and elsewhere. The seeds and their acrid oil are used in medicine as a purgative. See Physic nut.

A social entertainment, where many people assemble, usually in the open air, at which one or more large animals are roasted or broiled whole.

A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable. Gwilt.

to make importunate outcries. They bark, and say the Scripture maketh heretics. Tyndale. Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed. Fuller.

A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily. Du Chaillu.

a passage; to obstruct; as, the workmen barricaded the streets of Paris. The further end whereof [a bridge] was barricaded with barrels. Hakluyt.

Illegitimate by birth; bastard. [Archaic] Why bastard wherefore base Shak.

e of a king; but afterward, an apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; and hence, any large hall used for this purpose.

An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.

w or one division of a window having vertical sides, but with the sill not horizontal, as where it follows the rake of a staircase.

catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost. The birds, flying to the light, are caught with nets or otherwise.

A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash their bodies in water.

Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or defense.

In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of shops where goods are exposed for sale.

, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman. Whereby ye shall bind me to be your poor beadsman for ever unto Almighty God. Fuller.

öl.), the hairy larva of a moth, esp. of the genus Euprepia. -- Bear garden. (a) A place where bears are kept for diversion or fighting. (b) Any place where riotous conduct is common or permitted. M. Arnold. -- Bear leader, one who leads about a performing bear for money; hence, a facetious term for one who takes cha…

To come; to get. [Obs.] But, madam, where is Warwick then become! Shak. To become of, to be the present state or place of; to be the fate of; to be the end of; to be the final or subsequent condition of. What is then become of so huge a multitude Sir W. Raleigh.

n; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock. Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded. Wordsworth.

Any place where uproar and confusion prevail.