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A form of barometer so constructed as to inscribe of itself upon paper a record of the variations of atmospheric pressure.

The art or process of making barometrical measurements.

The woolly-skinned rhizoma or rootstock of a fern (Dicksonia barometz), which, when specially prepared and inverted, somewhat resembles a lamb; -- called also Scythian lamb.

A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife. [R.] Cowell. Baron of beef, two sirloins not cut asunder at the backbone. -- Barons of the Cinque Ports, formerly members of the House of Commons, elected by the seven Cinque Ports, two for each port. -- Baron of the exchequer, the judges of the Court of Exchequer, one…

The whole body of barons or peers. The baronage of the kingdom. Bp. Burnet.

A baron's wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title in her own right; as, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.

A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners.

State or rank of a baronet.

The rank or patent of a baronet.

A kind of cutting weapon with a thick back and thin razorlike edge, used by the Moros of the Philippine Islands.

Pertaining to a baron or a barony. "Baronial tenure." Hallam.

The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron.

In bad taste; grotesque; odd.

Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates - or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.

Pertaining to, or determined by, the baroscope.

An instrument for recording both pressure and temperature, as of the atmosphere.

A four-wheeled carriage, with a falling top, a seat on the outside for the driver, and two double seats on the inside arranged so that the sitters on the front seat face those on the back seat.

A kind of light barouche.

A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field.

Same as 3d Bark, n.