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s an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.

tached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle. Hang out our banners on the outward walls. Shak.

rate building, usually polygonal, used for baptismal services. Small churches were often changed into baptisteries when larger churches were built near.

To make barbarous. The hideous changes which have barbarized France. Burke.

To make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow. So worthless peasants bargain for their wives. Shak.

ermining the weight or pressure of the atmosphere, and hence for judging of the probable changes of weather, or for ascertaining the height of any ascent.

Pertaining to the barometer; made or indicated by a barometer; as, barometric changes; barometrical observations.

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.

To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck.

A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.

makes and carries about a bag or basket-like case of silk and twigs, which it afterwards hangs up to shelter the pupa and wingless adult females.

Rate of exchange; also, the discount on uncurrent coins. [India]

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

To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change. In all criminal cases the most favorable interpretation should be put on words that they can possibly bear. Swift.

To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional matter, or a new character. The Lord God . . . breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Gen. ii. 7. That error…

To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste. Remnants of tapestried hangings, . . . and shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his tatters. Sir W. Scott.

To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut. To the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea. Shak. Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime. Wordsworth.

An overhanging brow.

Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen.

woman in general; especially, an ugly old woman; a hag. Around the beldam all erect they hang. Akenside.