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ord holds jurisdiction; a manor. What lands and lordships for their owner know My quondam barber. Dryden.

A weak base identical with betaine; -- so called because found in the boxthorn (Lycium barbarum). See Betaine.

A spirituous liquor or drink distilled from potatoes; -- used in the Barbadoes.

The Barbary ape.

The Oregon grape, a species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), often cultivated for its hollylike foliage.

small white or reddish flowers. The drupes of Malpighia urens are eaten under the name of Barbadoes cherries.

cement composed of burnt clay, litharge, and linseed oil, used for plastering walls, etc. Barbary mastic (Bot.), the Pistachia Atlantica. -- Peruvian mastic tree (Bot.), a small tree (Schinus Molle) with peppery red berries; -- called also pepper tree. -- West Indian mastic (Bot.), a lofty tree (Bursera gummifera) fu…

at cards played by several persons. Matrimony vine (Bot.), a climbing thorny vine (Lycium barbarum) of the Potato family. Gray.

e Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic. -- Monk's rhubarb (Bot.), a kind of dock; -- also called patience (Rumex Patientia).

r family Mullidæ; called also red mullet, and surmullet, esp. the plain surmullet (Mullus barbatus), and the striped surmullet (M. surmulletus) of Southern Europe. The former is the mullet of the Romans. It is noted for the brilliancy of its colors. See Surmullet. French mullet. See Ladyfish (a).

An order of fishes having barbels on the jaws. It includes the catfishes, or siluroids. See Siluroid.

A Roman emperor notorius for debauchery and barbarous cruelty; hence, any profligate and cruel ruler or merciless tyrant. -- Ne*ro"ni*an, a.

Provided with ochrea, or sheathformed stipules, as the rhubarb, yellow dock, and knotgrass.

An evergreen species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), of Oregon and California; also, its roundish, blue-black berries.

Hence: Not according with usage; strange; rude; barbarous; uncouth; clownish; as, an outlandish dress, behavior, or speech. Something outlandish, unearthy, or at variance with ordinary fashion. Hawthorne. --Out*land"ish*ly, adv. -- Out*land"ish*ness, n.

session of; as, the vine overran its trellis; the farm is overrun with witch grass. Those barbarous nations that overran the world. Spenser.

A valuable pasture grass (Panicum barbinode) introduced into the Southern United States from Brazil.

A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb.

tupelo. See Tupelo. [Written also piperidge and pipperidge.] Pepperidge bush (Bot.), the barberry.

A bearing representing the head of a dart or javelin, with long barbs which are engrailed on the inner edge.