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Baryta.

Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.

A herbalist.

Half barbarous; partially civilized. -- n.

One who coins words. [R.] Southey gives himself free scope as a verbarian. Fitzed. Hall.

Of, or from, barbarian nations; foreign; -- often with reference to barbarous nations of east. "Barbaric pearl and gold." Milton.

The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization.

Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.

Barbarian. [Obs.] Chaucer.

re. Italy . . . was but imperfectly reduced to cultivation before the irruption of the barbarians. Hallam.

(Blackw. Mag.). -- Devil worship, worship of the power of evil; -- still practiced by barbarians who believe that the good and evil forces of nature are of equal power. -- Printer's devil, the youngest apprentice in a printing office, who runs on errands, does dirty work (as washing the ink rollers and sweeping), etc…

One who is rude or uncivilized; a barbarian; a rude, ignorant person. Chesterfield.

Literate; educated; versed in literature. " Are you not lettered" Shak. The unlettered barbarians willingly accepted the aid of the lettered clergy, still chiefly of Roman birth, to reduce to writing the institutes of their forefathers. Milman.

In this battle, . . . the Britons never more plainly manifested themselves to be right barbarians. Milton.

A man of extreme, unfeeling, brutal cruelty; a barbarian.