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A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant.

lly applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings. He lodged in a miserable hut or barrack, composed of dry branches and thatched with straw. Gibbon.

A home-made woolen blanket without nap. [Local, New York] Bartlett.

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

A voracious pikelike, marine fish, of the genus Sphyræna, sometimes used as food.

An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile.

A remarkable Australian fresh-water ganoid fish of the genus Ceratodus.

A ravine caused by heavy rains or a watercourse. [Texas & N. Mex.]

A resin, called also galipot.

One guilty of barratry.

Tainter with, or constituting, barratry. -- Bar"ra*trous*ly, adv. Kent.

The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels. [Also spelt barretry.] Coke. Blackstone.

A large American owl (Syrnium nebulosum); -- so called from the transverse bars of a dark brown color on the breast.

The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31

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.

Having a barrel; -- used in composition; as, a double-barreled gun.

Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- She was barren of children. Bp. Hall.

Unfruitfully; unproductively.

The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness. A total barrenness of invention. Dryden.

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