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A judgment, decision, or decree of a court or high tribunal; also, a decree of a sovereign.

A kind of cap formerly worn by soldiers; -- called also barret cap. Also, the flat cap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics.

nals and inclosed in a small glass or silver bulb. In a later variety, called the liquid barretter, wire is replace by a column of liquid in a very fine capillary tube.

A turret; a watchtower. [Obs.] He saw men go up and down on the garrets of the gates and walls. Ld. Berners.

Protected by turrets. [Obs.] R. Carew.

One who lives in a garret; a poor author; a literary hack. Macaulay.

Small splinters of stone inserted into the joints of coarse masonry. Weale.

A beehive, or something resembling a beehive. Barret.

The short upright pieces between the floor beams and rafters in garrets. See Ashlar, 2.

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

or easy transportation. -- camp ceiling (Arch.), a kind ceiling often used in attics or garrets, in which the side walls are inclined inward at the top, following the slope of the rafters, to meet the plane surface of the upper ceiling. -- Camp chair, a light chair that can be folded up compactly for easy transportat…

l primary meeting. This day learned that the caucus club meets, at certain times, in the garret of Tom Dawes, the adjutant of the Boston regiment. John Adams's Diary [Feb. , 1763].

An upper loft; a garret; the highest room in a building. Dryden. Swift.

And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. Tennyson. Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court. Macualay.

Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. [R.] A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets. Thackeray. -- Dis*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n. [Obs.]

ess dispatched to the mansion house in the country . . . they perish among the lumber of garrets. Walpole.

glee, in its being sung by many voices, instead of by one only, to each part." Stainer & Barrett.

A loft or upper chamber; a garret room. [Obs.] [Written also soler, solere, sollar.] Oxf. Gloss.

A loft or garret. See Solar, n. Sir W. Scott.

The common tern; -- called also tarret, and tarrock. [Prov. Eng.]