Baleful – Barberry

Baleful

BA'LEFUL, adjective [See Bale.] Woeful; sad; sorrowful; full of grief; producing misery; as, a baleful smart; baleful eyes.

2. Mischievous; destructive; pernicious; calamitous; deadly; as, baleful enemies; baleful war.

Balefully

BA'LEFULLY, adverb Sorrowfully; perniciously; in a calamitous manner.

Balister

BALIS'TER, noun [Latin balista, from Gr.to throw.] A cross bow.

Balize

BALIZE, noun A sea-mark; a pole raised on a bank.

Balk

BALK, noun bauk.

1. A ridge of land, left unplowed, between furrows, or at the end of a field.

2. A great beam, or rafter.

3. Any thing left untouched, like a ridge in plowing.

4. A frustration; disappointment.

BALK, verb transitive bauk. To disappoint; to frustrate.

2. To leave untouched; to miss or omit.

3. To pile, as in a heap or ridge.

4. To turn aside; to talk beside one's meaning.

5. To plow, leaving balks.

Balked

BALK'ED, participle passive Plowed in ridges between furrows, as in American husbandry.

2. Frustrated; disappointed.

Balker

BALK'ER, noun One who balks. In fishery, balkers are persons who stand on rocks and eminences to espy the sholes of herring, and to give notice to the men in boats, which way they pass.

Balking

BALK'ING, participle present tense Plowing in ridges; frustrating.

Ball

BALL, noun [Latin pila; A ball may signify a mass from collecting, or it may be that which is driven, from the root of Latin pello; probably the former.]

1. A round body; a spherical substance, whether natural or artificial; or a body nearly round; as, a ball for play; a ball of thread; a ball of snow.

2. A bullet; a ball of iron or lead for cannon, muskets, etc.

3. A printer's ball consisting of hair or wool, covered with leather or skin, and fastened to a stock, called a ball-stock, and used to put ink on the types in the forms.

4. The globe or earth, from its figure.

5. A globe borne as an ensign of authority; as, to hold the ball of a kingdom.

6. Any part of the body that is round or protuberant; as, the eye ball; the ball of the thumb or foot.

7. The weight at the bottom of a pendulum.

8. Among the Cornish miners in England, a tin mine.

9. In pyrotechnics, a composition of combustible ingredients, which serve to burn, smoke or give light.

BALL-stock, among printers, a stock somewhat hollow at one end, to which balls of skin, stuffed with wool, are fastened, and which serves as a handle.

BALL-vein, among miners, a sort of iron ore, found in loose masses, of a circular form, containing sparkling particles.

BALL and socket, an instrument used in surveying and astronomy, made of brass, with a perpetual screw, to move horizontally, obliquely, or vertically.

Puff-ball, in botany, the Lycoperdon, a genus of fungeses.

Fire-ball, a meteor; a luminous globe darting through the atmosphere; also, a bag of canvas filled with gunpowder, sulphur, pitch, saltpeter, etc., to be thrown by the hand, or from mortars, to set fire to houses.

BALL, noun [Gr.to toss or throw; to leap.] An entertainment of dancing; originally and peculiarly, at the invitation and expense of an individual; but the word is used in America, for a dance at the expense of the attendants.

BALL, verb intransitive To form into a ball as snow on horses' hoofs, or on the feet. We say the horse balls, or the snow balls.

Ballad

BAL'LAD, noun A song; originally, a solemn song of praise; but now a meaner kind of popular song.

BAL'LAD, verb intransitive To make or sing ballads.

Ballad-Maker

BAL'LAD-MAKER, noun A maker or composer of ballads.

Ballad-Monger

BAL'LAD-MONGER, noun [See Monger] A dealer in writing ballads.

Ballad-Singer

BAL'LAD-SINGER, noun One whose employment is to sing ballads.

Ballad-Style

BAL'LAD-STYLE, noun The air or manner of a ballad.

Ballad-Tune

BAL'LAD-TUNE, noun The tune of a ballad.

Ballad-Writer

BAL'LAD-WRITER, noun A composer of ballads.

Ballader

BAL'LADER, noun A writer of ballads.

Balladry

BAL'LADRY, noun The subject or style of ballads.

Ballarag

BAL'LARAG, verb transitive To bully; to threaten. [Not in use.]

Ballast

BAL'LAST, noun

1. Heavy matter, as stone, sand or iron, laid on the bottom of a ship or other vessel, to sink it in the water, to such a depth, as to enable it to carry sufficient sail, without oversetting.

Shingle ballast is ballast of coarse gravel.

2. Figuratively, that which is used to make a thing steady.

BAL'LAST, verb transitive To place heavy substances on the bottom of a ship or vessel, to keep it from oversetting.

2. To keep any thing steady, by counterbalancing its force.

Ballasted

BAL'LASTED, participle passive Furnished with ballast; kept steady by a counterpoising force.

Ballasting

BAL'LASTING, participle present tense Furnishing with ballast; keeping steady.

BAL'LASTING, noun Ballast; that which is used for ballast.

Ballated

BAL'LATED, adjective Sung in a ballad. [Little used.]

Ballatoon

BALLATOON', noun A heavy luggage boat employed on the rivers about the Caspian Lake.

Ballatry

BAL'LATRY, noun A song; a jig.

Ballaustine

BALLAUS'TINE, noun The wild pomegranate tree.

Ballet

BAL'LET, noun

1. A kind of dance; an interlude; a comic dance, consisting of a series of several airs, with different movements, representing some subject or action.

2. A kind of dramatic poem, representing some fabulous action or subject, in which several persons appear and recite things, under the name of some deity or personage.

In heraldry, ballets or balls, a bearing in coats of arms, denominated according to their color, bezants, plates, hurts, etc.

Balliage

BAL'LIAGE, or more correctly bailage. noun

A small duty paid to the city of London by aliens, and even by denizens, for certain commodities exported by them.

Balliards

BALLIARDS. [See Billiards.]

Ballister

BALLISTER. [See Baluster.]

Ballistic

BALLIS'TIC, adjective [Latin balista, an engine to throw stones, or shoot darts, from Gr.to throw or shoot.] Pertaining to the balista, or to the art of shooting darts, and other missive weapons, by means of an engine.

Ballistics

BALLIS'TICS, noun The science or art of throwing missive weapons, by the use of an engine. The balista was a machine resembling a cross-bow.

Balloen

BAL'LOEN, noun A state barge of Siam, made of a single piece of timber, very long, and managed with oars.

Balloon

BALLOON', noun

1. In general, any spherical hollow body.

2. In chimistry, a round vessel with a short neck, to receive whatever is distilled; a glass receiver of a spherical form.

3. In architecture, a ball or globe, on the top of a pillar.

4. In fireworks, a ball of pasteboard, or kind of bomb, stuffed with combustibles, to be played off, when fired, either in the air, or in water, which, bursting like a bomb, exhibits sparks of fire like stars.

5. A game, somewhat resembling tennis, played in an open field, with a large ball of leather, inflated with wind.

6. A bag or hollow vessel, made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere, called for distinction, an air-balloon.

7. In France, a quantity of paper, containing 24 reams. [See Bale.]

8. In France, balloon ballon or ballot, a quantity of glass plates; of white glass, 25 bundles of six plates each; of colored glass, 12 1-2 bundles of three plates each.

BALLOON'

Ballot

BAL'LOT, noun

1. A ball used in voting. Ballots are of different colors; those of one color give an affirmative; those of another, a (p.21) negative. They are privately put into a box or urn.

2. A ticket or written vote, being given in lieu of a ballot is now called by the same name.

3. The act of voting by balls or tickets.

BAL'LOT, verb intransitive To vote by ballot that is, by putting little balls of different colors into a box, the greater number of one color or the other determining the result.

2. To vote by written papers or tickets.

Ballot-Box

BAL'LOT-BOX, noun A box for receiving ballots.

Ballotade

BAL'LOTADE

BALLOTA'TION, noun A voting by ballot. [Little used.]

Balm

B'ALM, noun bam.

1. The sap or juice of trees or shrubs remarkable odoriferous or aromatic.

2. Any fragrant or valuable ointment.

3. Anything which heals, or which soothes or mitigates pain.

4. In botany, the name of several plants, particularly of the genus Melissa. They are aromatic and used as corroborants.

Balm of Gilead. A plant of the genus Amyris. Its leaves yield, when bruised, a strong aromatic scent; and from this plant is obtained the balm of Gilead of the shops, or balsam of Mecca or of Syria. It has a yellowish or greenish color, a warm bitterish aromatic taste, and an acidulous fragrant smell. It is valued as an odoriferous unguent, and cosmetic, by the Turks, who possess the country of its growth, and hence it is adulterated for market.

B'ALM, verb transitive To anoint with balm or with any thing medicinal.

2. To soothe; to mitigate; to assuage.

Balmy

B'ALMY, adjective Having the qualities of balm; aromatic.

2. Producing balm; as the balmy tree.

3. Soothing; soft; mild; as balmy slumbers.

4. Fragrant; odoriferous; as balmy wings.

5. Mitigating; easing; assuaging; as balmy breath.

Balneal

BAL'NEAL, adjective [Latin balneum.] Pertaining to a bath.

Balneary

BAL'NEARY, noun [Latin balnearium, from balneum.]

A bathing room.

Balneation

BALNEA'TION, noun The act of bathing.

Balneatory

BAL'NEATORY, adjective Belonging to a bath or stove.

Balotade

BAL'OTADE, noun In the menage, a leap of pillars, or upon a strait line, so that when his fore feet are in the air, he shrews nothing but the shoes of his hind feet, without jerking out. In a capriole, the horse yerks out his hind legs.

Balsam

BAL'SAM, noun [Latin balsamum.] An oily, aromatic, resinous substance, flowing spontaneously or by incision, from certain plants. A (p.22)

great variety of substances pass under this denomination. But in modern chimistry, the term is confined to such vegetable juices, as are liquid or spontaneously become concrete, and consist of a resinous substance, combined with benzoic acid, or capable of affording it by decoction or sublimation. The balsams are either liquid or solid; of the former, are the balm of Gilead and the balsams of copaiba, Peru and tolu; of the latter, benzoin, dragon's blood, and storax.

Balsam apple, an annual Indian plant; included under the genus Momordica. A water and a subtil oil are obtained from it, which are commended as deobstruents.

Balsam tree. This name is given to a genus of plants called Clusia; to another, called Copaifera, which produces the balsam of Copaiba; and to a third, called Pistacia, turpentine tree or mastich tree.

Balsam of Sulphur is a solution of sulphur in oil

Balsam of Tolu is the produce of the Toluifera, or Tolu tree, of South America. It is of a reddish yellow color, transparent, thick and tenacious, but growing hard and brittle by age. It is very fragrant, and like the balsam of Peru, is a stimulant, and used as a pectoral.

Balsam of Peru, the produce of a tree in Peru, possessing strong stimulant qualities.

Balsam-Sweating

BAL'SAM-SWEATING, adjective Yielding balsam.

Balsamation

BALSAMA'TION, noun The act of rendering balsamic.

Balsami-Cal

BALSAM'I-CAL, adjective Having the qualities of balsam; stimulating; unctuous; soft; mitigating; mild.

BALSAM'IC, noun A warm, stimulating, demulcent medicine, of a smooth and oily consistence.

Balsamic

BALSAM'IC

BAL'SAMINE, noun touch-me-not, or Impatiens, a genus of plants.

Balsamine

BAL'SAMINE, n. touch-me-not, or Impatiens, a genus of plants.

Baltic

BALT'IC, noun [From balte, belt, from certain straits or channels, surrounding its isles, called belts. See Belt.]

The sea which separates Norway and Sweden from Jutland, Holstein and Germany.

BALT'IC, adjective Pertaining to the sea of that name; situated on the baltic sea.

Each baltic state to join the righteous cause.

Baluster

BAL'USTER, noun [Latin palus; Eng.pole, pale. This is corrupted into bannister, which I have rejected.]

A small column or pilaster, of various forms and dimension, often adorned with moldings, used for balustrades.

Balustered

BAL'USTERED, adjective Having balusters.

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Balustrade

BAL'USTRADE, noun A row of balusters, joined by a rail, serving as a fence or inclosure, for altars, balconies, stair-cases, terraces. tops of buildings, etc.

Bam

BAM or BEAM, as an initial syllable in names of places, signifies wood; implying that the place took its name from a grove, or forest.

Bamboo

BAM'BOO, noun A plant of the reed kind, or genus Arundo, growing in the East Indies, and in some other warm climates, and sometimes attaining to the height of 60 feet. From the main root, which is long, thick and jointed, spring several round, jointed stalks, which at 10 or 12 feet from the ground, send out from their joints several stalks which are united at their base. These are armed, at their joints, with one or two sharp rigid spines, and furnished with oblong, oval leaves, eight or nine inches long, on short footstalks. The flowers grow in large panicles, from the joints of the stalk, placed three in a parcel, close to their receptacles. Old stalks grow to five or six inches in diameter, and are so hard and durable, as to be used for building and for all sorts of furniture, for water pipes, and for poles to support palanquins. The smaller stalks are used for walking sticks, flutes, etc.

Bamboozle

BAMBOO'ZLE, verb transitive To confound; to deceiving; to play low tricks. [ A low word.]

Bamboozler

BAMBOO'ZLER, noun A cheat; one who plays low tricks.

Ban

BAN, noun

1. A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory.

In a more particular sense,

2. Notice of a marriage proposed, or of a matrimonial contract, proclaimed in a church, that any person may object, if he knows of any kindred between the parties, of any precontract or other just cause, why the marriage should not take place.

3. An edict of interdiction or proscription. Hence to put a prince under the ban of the empire, is to divest him of his dignities, and to interdict all intercourse and all offices of humanity with the offender. Sometimes whole cities have been put under the ban that is, deprived of their rights and privileges.

4. Interdiction; prohibition.

5. Curse; excommunication; anathema.

6. A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban

7. A mulct paid to the bishop by one guilty of sacrilege and other crimes.

8. In military affairs, a proclamation by beat of drum, requiring a strict observance of discipline, either for declaring a new officer, or for punishing an offender.

9. In commerce, a smooth fine muslin, imported from the E.Indies.

BAN, verb transitive To curse; to execrate.

BAN, verb intransitive To curse.

Banana

BAN'ANA, noun A species of the genus Musa, or plantain tree, and its fruit. It rises 15 or 20 feet high, with a soft stalk, marked with dark purple stripes and spots, with leaves six feet long, and a foot broad. The flowers grow in bunches, covered with a sheath of a fine purple color.

The fruit is four or five inches long, and an inch or more in diameter; the pulp soft and of a luscious taste. When ripe, it is eaten raw, or fried in slices. Bananas grow in large bunches weighing a dozen pounds or more. This tree is the native of tropical countries, and on many isles, constitutes an important article of food.

Band

BAND, noun [See Bind and Bend.]

1. A fillet; a cord; a tie; a chain; any narrow ligament with which a thing is bound, tied or fastened, or by which a number of things are confined together.

2. In architecture, any flat low member of molding, broad but not deep, called also fascia, face or plinth.

3. Figuratively, any chain; any means of restraint; that which draws or confines.

4. Means of union or connection between persons; as, Hymen's bands.

5. Any thing bound round or encircling another.

6. Something worn about the neck; as the bands of clergymen.

7. A company of soldiers; the body of men united under one flag or ensign. Also, indefinitely, a troop, a body of armed men.

2 Kings 6:23.

8. A company of persons united in any common design; as a band of brothers.

9. A slip of canvas, sewed across a sail to strengthen it.

The band of pensioners in England, is a company of 120 gentlemen, who receive a yearly allowance of f100st., for attending the king on solemn occasions.

The bands of a saddle are two pieces of iron nailed upon the bows, to hold them in their proper situation.

BAND, verb transitive To bind together; to bind over with a band

2. To unite in a troop, company or confederacy.

BAND, verb intransitive To unite; to associate; to confederate for some common purpose. Acts 23:12.

Bandage

BAND'AGE, noun A fillet, roller, or swath, used in dressing and binding up wounds, restraining hemorrhages, and joining fractured and dislocated bones. Sometimes, the act or practice of applying bandages.

2. Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over another

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Bandana

BANDAN'A, noun A species of silk handkerchief.

Bandbox

BAND'BOX, noun A slight paper box for bands, caps, bonnets, muffs, or other light articles.

Banded

BAND'ED, participle passive Bound with a band; united in a band.

Bandelet

BAND'ELET, noun Any little band or flat molding, as that which

crowns the Doric architrave.

Bander

BAND'ER, noun One that bands or associates with others.

Banderet

BAND'ERET, noun [from band.] In Swisserland, a general in chief of military forces.

Bandian

BAN'DIAN, noun The seed of a tree in China, which smells like anise seeds; used by the Chinese and Dutch to give their tea an aromatic taste.

Bandied

BAND'IED, participle passive Beat or tossed to and fro; agitated; controverted without ceremony.

Banding

BAND'ING, participle present tense Binding with a band; uniting in a band or company.

Bandit

BAN'DIT, noun plural BAN'DITS or BANDIT'TI, An outlaw; also in a general sense, a robber; a highwayman; a lawless or desperate fellow.

Bandle

BAN'DLE, noun An Irish measure of two feet in length.

Bandlet

BAND'LET

BAN'DOG, n, A large species of dog.

Bandog

BAN'DOG, n, A large species of dog.

Bandoleers

BANDOLEE'RS, noun A large leathern belt, thrown over the right shoulder, and hanging under the left arm; worn by ancient musketeers for sustaining their fire arms, and their musket charges, which being put into little wooden cases, and coated with leather, were hung, to the number of twelve, to each bandoleer.

Bandon

BAN'DON, noun Disposal; license. [Not in use.]

Bandore

BAN'DORE, noun A musical stringed instrument, like a lute.

Bandrol

BAND'ROL, noun

1. A little flag or streamer, in form of a guidon, used to be hung on the masts of vessels.

2. The little fringed silk flag that hangs on a trumpet.

Bandstring

BAND'STRING, noun A string appendant to a band.

Bandy

BAND'Y, noun [Latin pando.] A club for striking a ball at play.

BAND'Y, verb transitive To beat to and fro, as a ball in play.

2. To exchange; to give and receive reciprocally; as, to bandy looks.

3. To agitate; to toss about, as from man to man.

Let not known truth be bandied in disputation.

BAND'Y, verb intransitive To contend, as at some game, in which strives to drive the ball his own way.

Bandy-Legged

BAND'Y-LEGGED, adjective Having crooked legs.

Bandying

BAND'YING, participle present tense Beating, impelling or tossing from one to another; agitating in controversy without ceremony.

BAND'Y-LEG, noun [bandy and leg. See Bend.]

A crooked leg; a leg bending inward or outward.

Bane

BANE, noun [Gr. is to kill; in Latin venenum is poison.]

Poison of a deadly quality; hence, any fatal cause of mischief, injury or destruction; as, vice is the bane of society.

BANE, verb transitive To poison.

Baneberry

BA'NEBERRY, noun A name of the herb christopher, actaea, or aconitum racemosum.

Baneful

BA'NEFUL, adjective Poisonous; pernicious; destructive.

Banefully

BA'NEFULLY, adverb Perniciously; destructively.

Banefulness

BA'NEFULNESS, noun Poisonousness; destructiveness.

BA'NE WORT, noun [See Wort.] A plant, called also deadly nightshade.

Bang

BANG, verb transitive

1. To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to thump; to cudgel. [A low word.]

2. To beat or handle roughly; to treat with violence.

BANG, noun A blow with a club; a heavy blow.

Bangle

BAN'GLE, verb transitive To waste by little and little; to squander carelessly.

Banian

BAN'IAN, noun A man's undress or morning gown, as worn by the Banians in the E. Indies.

2. A Gentoo servant, employed as an agent in commerce.

3. A tree in India.

Banian days, in seamen's language, are three days in a week, in which the sailors have no flesh meat served out to them. This use of the term seems to be borrowed from the Banians in Asia, who, believing in a metempsychosis, will eat no flesh, nor even kill noxious animals.

Banish

BAN'ISH, verb transitive

1. To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the prince or government, either for life or for a limited time. It is common for Russians to be banished to Siberia.

2. To drive away; to compel to depart; as, to banish sorrow.

3. To quit one's country voluntarily, and with a view to reside abroad; as, he banished himself.

Banished

BAN'ISHED, participle passive Compelled to leave one's country; driven away.

Banisher

BAN'ISHER, noun One who compels another to quit his country.

Banishing

BAN'ISHING, participle present tense Compelling to quit one's country; driving away.

Banishment

BAN'ISHMENT, noun The act of a prince or government, compelling a citizen to leave his country, either for a limited time or forever, as for some crime.

2. A voluntary forsaking of one's country upon oath, called abjuration. [This practice has now ceased in G.Britain.]

3. The state of being banished; exile.

4. The act of driving away or dispelling; as the banishment of care from the mind.

Bank

BANK, noun [Bank and bench are radically the same word. The sense is, that which is set, laid or extended. Applied to a mass of earth, it is a collection, that which is thrown or laid together.]

1. A mound, pile or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding plain, either as a defense or for other purposes. 2 Samuel 20:15.

2. Any steep acclivity, whether rising from a river, a lake, or the sea, or forming the side of a ravine, or the steep side of a hillock on a plain. When we speak of the earth in general adjoining a lake or the sea, we use the word shore; but a particular steep acclivity on the side of a lake, river or the sea, is called a bank

3. A bench, or a bench of rowers, in a galley; so called from their seat.

Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojans sweep.

4. By analogy, a collection or stock of money, deposited, by a number of persons, for a particular use; that is, an aggregate of particulars, or a fund; as, to establish a bank that is a joint fund.

5. The place where a collection of money is deposited; a common repository of the money of individuals or of companies; also a house used for a bank

6. A company of persons concerned in a bank whether a private association, or an incorporated company; the stockholders of a bank or their representatives, the directors, acting in their corporate capacity.

7. An elevation, or rising ground, in the sea; called also flats, shoals, shelves or shallows. These may rise to the surface of the water or near to it; but the word bank signifies also elevated ground at the bottom of the sea, when many fathoms below the surface, as the banks of Newfoundland.

BANK, verb transitive To raise a mound or dyke; to inclose, defend or fortify with a bank; as, to bank a house.

2. To pass by the banks of.

As I have bank'd their towns. [Not in use.]

3. To lay up or deposit money in a bank (Little used.]

Bank-Bill

BANK-BILL

BANK-NOTE, noun A promissory note, issued by a banking company, signed by their President and countersigned by the Cashier, payable to the bearer in gold or silver at the bank, on demand. If payable to order, the note is called a post-note.

Bank-Note

BANK-NOTE, n. A promissory note, issued by a banking company, signed by their President and countersigned by the Cashier, payable to the bearer in gold or silver at the bank, on demand. If payable to order, the note is called a post-note.

Bank-Stock

BANK-STOCK, noun A share or shares in the capital stock of a bank.

Bankable

BANK'ABLE, adjective Receivable at a bank, as bills; or discountable, as notes. [Of recent origin.]

Banked

BANK'ED, participle passive Raised in a ridge or mound of earth; inclosed, or fortified with a bank.

Banker

BANK'ER, noun One who keeps a bank; one who trafficks in money, receives and remits money, negotiates bills of exchange, etc.

2. A vessel employed in the codfishery on the banks of Newfoundland.

Banking

BANK'ING, participle present tense Raising a mound or bank; inclosing with a bank. When we speak of restraining water, we usually call it banking; when we speak of defending the land, we call it imbanking.

BANK'ING, noun The business or employment of a banker; the business of establishing a common fund for lending money, discounting notes, issuing bills, receiving deposits, collecting the money on notes deposited, negotiating bills of exchange, etc.

Bankrupt

BANK'RUPT, noun [Eng.rout, defeat. This

may signify bench-broken, or bank-broken; most probably the latter, referring to the fund or stock. The last syllable is the Latin ruptus contracted; Norm.roupt, rous, broken.]

1. A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.

2. In a less technical sense, a trader who fails or becomes unable to pay his just debts; an insolvent trader. In strictness, no person but a trader can be a bankrupt Bankruptcy is applied to merchants and traders; insolvency, to other persons.

BANK'RUPT, adjective Having committed acts of bankruptcy; unable to pay just debts; insolvent.

BANK'RUPT, verb transitive To break one in trade; to make insolvent.

Bankrupt-Law

BANK'RUPT-LAW, noun A law, which, upon a bankrupt's surrendering all his property to commissioners for the benefit of his creditors, discharges him from the payment of his debts, and all liability to arrest or suit for the same, and secures his future acquired property from a liability to the payment of his past debts.

Bankrupt-System

BANKRUPT-SYSTEM, noun A system of laws and legal proceedings in regard to bankrupts and their property.

Bankruptcy

BANK'RUPTCY, noun The state of being a bankrupt, or insolvent; inability to pay all debts.

2. The act of becoming a bankrupt; the act of rendering one's self a bankrupt, as by absconding, or otherwise; failure in trade.

Bankrupted

BANK'RUPTED, participle passive Rendered insolvent.

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Bankrupting

BANK'RUPTING, participle present tense Breaking in trade; rendering insolvent.

Banner

BAN'NER, noun [Latin pannus.]

1. A square flag; a military ensign; the principal standard of a prince or state.

2. A streamer borne at the end of a lance or elsewhere.

3. In botany, the upper petal of a papilionaceous corol.

Bannered

BAN'NERED, adjective Furnished with or bearing banners.

Shield the strong foes, and rake the bannered shore.

Banneret

BAN'NERET, noun A knight made in the field. Bannerets formerly constituted an order of knights or feudal lords, who led their vassals to battle under their own flags. On the day of battle, the candidates presented their flags to the king or general, who cut off the train or skirt, and made it square. They were then called knights of the square flag. They were a middle order between barons and simple knights.

Bannerol

BAN'NEROL, [See Bandrol.]

Bannock

BAN'NOCK, noun A cake made of oatmeal or peas-meal, baked on an iron plate over the fire; used in Scotland, and the northern counties of England.

Banoy

BAN'OY, noun A species of hawk, somewhat larger than the English sparrow hawk; the back and wings yellow, and the belly white; a native of the Philippine isles.

Banquet

BAN'QUET, noun A feast; a rich entertainment of meat and drink. Esther 5:4. Job xli. Amos 6:7.

BAN'QUET, verb transitive To treat with a feast, or rich entertainment.

BAN'QUET, verb intransitive To feast; to regale one's self with good eating and drinking.

Banquet-House

BAN'QUET-HOUSE, noun A house where entertainments are made. Song of Solomon 2:4. Daniel 5:1.

Banqueted

BAN'QUETED, participle passive Feasted; richly entertained at the table.

Banqueter

BAN'QUETER, noun A feaster; one who lives deliciously.

2. One who makes feasts, or rich entertainments.

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Banqueting

BAN'QUETING, participle present tense Feasting; entertaining with rich fare.

2. Partaking of rich fare.

BAN'QUETING, noun A feast; luxurious living; rich entertainment. lPet.iv.

Banqueting-House

BAN'QUETING-HOUSE

BAN'QUETING-ROOM, noun A saloon, or spacious hall for public entertainments.

Banqueting-Room

BAN'QUETING-ROOM, n. A saloon, or spacious hall for public entertainments.

Banquette

BANQUETTE or BANQUET, noun banket. In fortification, a little raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy in the moat or covered way.

Banshee

BAN'SHEE or BEN'SHI, noun An Irish fairy.

Banstickle

BAN'STICKLE, noun A small fish, called also stickle-back. This fish falls under the genus Gasterosteus.

Banter

BAN'TER, verb transitive [Gr. to mock, or deride.] To play upon in words and in good humor; to rally; to joke, or jest with. banter hardly amounts to ridicule, much less to derision. It consists in being pleasant and witty with the actions of another, and raising a humorous laugh at his expense, often attended with some degree of sarcasm.

BAN'TER, noun A joking or jesting; raillery; wit or humor; pleasantry.

Bantered

BAN'TERED, participle passive Rallied; laughed at in good humor.

Banterer

BAN'TERER, noun One who banters, or laughs at with pleasantry.

Bantering

BAN'TERING, participle present tense Joking; laughing at with good humor.

Bantling

BANT'LING, noun A young child; an infant.

Baptism

BAP'TISM, noun [Gr. to baptize.]

1. The application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is usually performed by sprinkling or immersion.

2. The sufferings of Christ. Matt.xx22.23.

3. So much of the gospel as was preached by John, the Baptist. Acts 18:25.

Baptismal

BAPTIS'MAL, adjective Pertaining to baptist; as a baptismal vow.

Baptist

BAP'TIST, noun One who administers baptism. This appellation is appropriately given to John, the forerunner of Christ.

2. As a contraction of Anabaptist, one who denies the doctrine of infant baptism, and maintains that baptism ought to be administered only to adults by immersing the body in water.

Baptistery

BAP'TISTERY, noun [Latin baptisterium.] A place where the sacrament of baptism is administered. Primitively, baptisteries were in buildings separate from the church; but in the sixth century, they were taken into the church-porch, and afterwards into the church itself.

Baptistic

BAPTIS'TIC

BAPTIS'TICAL, adjective Pertaining to baptism.

Baptistical

BAPTIS'TICAL, a. Pertaining to baptism.

Baptize

BAPTI'ZE, verb transitive [See Baptism.] To administer the sacrament of baptism to; to christen. By some denominations of christians, baptism is performed by plunging, or immersing the whole body in water, and this is done to none but adults. More generally the ceremony is performed by sprinkling water on the face of a person, whether an infant or an adult, and in the case of an infant, by giving him a name, in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, which is called Christening.

Baptized

BAPTI'ZED, participle passive Having received baptism; christened.

Baptizer

BAPTI'ZER, noun One who christens, or administers baptism.

Baptizing

BAPTI'ZING, participle present tense Administering baptism to; christening.

Bar

B'AR, noun [If these words are the Eng.bar, the sense is a shoot, that which shoots, passes or is driven.]

1. A piece of wood, iron or other solid matte, long in proportion to its diameter, used for various purposes, but especially for a hindrance or obstruction; as the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door or hatchway. Exodus 26:28, Exodus 36:33

2. Any obstacle which obstructs, hinders or defends; an obstruction; a fortification. Amos 1:5.

Must I new bars to my own joy create.

3. The shore of the sea, which restrains its waters. Job 38:10.

4. The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence the phrase, at the bar of the court, signifies in open court. Hence also licensed lawyers are called barristers; and hence the whole body of lawyers licensed in a court, are customarily called the bar A trial at bar in England, is a trial in the courts of Westminster, opposed to a trial at Nisi Prius, in the circuits.

5. Figuratively, any tribunal; as the bar of public opinion. Thus the final trial of men is called the bar of God.

6. The inclosed place of a tavern, inn or coffee house, where the landlord or his servant delivers out liquors, and waits upon customers.

7. A bank of sand, gravel or earth, forming a shoal at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing entrance, or rendering it difficult.

8. A rock in the sea, according to Brown; or any thing by which structure is held together, according to Johnson; used in Jonah 2:6.

9. Any thing laid across another, as bars in heraldlry, stripes in color, and the like.

10. In the menage, the highest part of the place in a horse's mouth between the grinders and tusks, so that the part of the mouth which lies under and at the side of the bars, retains the name of the gum. The upper part of the gums, which bears no teeth, and to which the bit is applied.

11. In music, bars are lines drawn perpendicularly across the lines of the staff, including between each two, a certain quantity of time, or number of beats.

12. In law, a peremptory exception sufficient to destroy the plaintiff's action. It is divided into a bar to common intendment, and bar special; bar temporary and bar perpetual. bar to common intendment is an ordinary or general bar which disables the declaration of the plaintiff. A special bar is more than ordinary, as a fine, release, or justification. A temporary bar is that which is good for a time, but may afterwards cease. A perpetual bar overthrows the action of the plaintiff forever.

13. A bar of gold or silver, is an ingot, lump or wedge, from the mines, run in a mold, and unwrought. A bar of iron is a long piece, wrought in the forge and hammered from a pig.

14. Among printers, the iron with a wooden handle, by which the screw of the press is turned.

15. In the African trade, a denomination of price; payment formerly being made to the Africans in iron bars.

B'AR, verb transitive To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door, or gate.

2. To hinder; to obstruct, or prevent; as, to bar the entrance of evil.

3. To prevent; to exclude; to hinder; to make impracticable; as, the distance between us bars our intercourse. In this sense, the phrase is often varied, thus; the distance bars me from his aid, or bars him from my aid.

4. To prohibit; to restrain or exclude by express or implied prohibition; as, the statute bars my right; the law bars the use of poisoned weapons.

5. To obstruct, prevent or hinder by any moral obstacle; as, the right is barred by time, or by statute; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery.

6. To except; to exclude by exception; as, I bar to night.

7. To cross with stripes of a different color.

8. To bar a vein, in farriery, is an operation upon the legs of a horse, or other parts, to stop malignant humors. This is done by opening the skin above a vein, disengaging it and tying it both above and below, and striking between the two ligatures.

9. To adorn with trappings; a contraction of barb. [See Barb.]

Barb

B'ARB, noun [Latin barba; This is beard, with a different ending. The sense may be, that which shoots out.]

1. Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it; as the barb of a fish, the smaller claws of the polypus, etc.

2. The down, or pubes, covering the surface of some plants; or rather, a tuft or bunch of strong hairs terminating leaves.

3. Anciently, armor for horses; formerly, barbe or barde.

4. A common name of the barbary pigeon, a bird of a black or dun color.

5. A horse from Barbary, of which it seems to be a contraction.

6. The points that stand backward in an arrow, fish-hook or other instrument for piercing, intended to prevent its being extracted.

7. In botany, a straight process armed with teeth pointing backward like the sting of a bee. This is one sort of pubescence.

Barbadoes-Cherry

BARBA'DOES-CHERRY, noun The Malpighia, a tree growing in the W. Indies, fifteen feet high and producing a pleasant tart fruit.

BARBA'DOES TAR, noun A mineral fluid, of the nature of the thicker fluid bitumens, of a nauseous bitterish taste, a very strong disagreeable smell, viscid, of a brown, black or reddish color; it easily melts, and burns with much smoke, but is not soluble in ardent spirits. It contains a portion of acid of amber. It trickles down the sides of mountains in some parts of America, and sometimes is found on the surface of the waters. It is recommended in coughs and disorders of the breast and lungs.

Barbarian

BARBA'RIAN, noun [Latin barbarus; . The sense is, foreign, wild, fierce.]

1. A man in his rude, savage state; an uncivilized person.

2. A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity.

3. A foreigner. The Greeks and Romans denominated most foreign nations barbarians; and many of these were less civilized than themselves, or unacquainted with their language, laws and manners. But with them, the word was less reproachful than with us.

BARBA'RIAN, adjective Belonging to savages; rude; uncivilized.

2. Cruel; inhuman.

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Barbaric

BARBAR'IC, adjective [Latin barbaricus. See Barbarian. The Romans applied this word to designate things foreign; Barbaricum aurum, gold from Asia, Virg. AEn.2.504; Barbaricoe vestes, embroidered garments from foreign nations. English writers use the word in a like sense.]

Foreign; imported from foreign nations.

Barbarity

BARBAR'ITY, noun [See Barbarian.] The manners of a barbarian; savageness; cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity.

2. Barbarism; impurity of speech. [The use of the word in this sense, is now superseded by barbarism.]

Barbarize

B'ARBARIZE, verb transitive To make barbarous.

Hideous changes have barbarized France.

Barbarous

B'ARBAROUS, adjective Uncivilized; savage; unlettered; untutored; ignorant; unacquainted with arts; stranger to civility of manners.

Thou are a roman; be not barbarous

2. Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; as barbarous

Barbarously

B'ARBAROUSLY, adverb In the manner of a barbarian; ignorantly; without knowledge or arts; contrary to the rules of speech.

2. In a savage, cruel, ferocious or inhuman manner.

Barbarousness

B'ARBAROUSNESS, noun Rudeness or incivility of manners.

2. Impurity of language.

3. Cruelty; inhumanity; barbarity.

Barbary

B'ARBARY, noun A barbary horse; a barb.

Barbastel

B'ARBASTEL, noun A bat with hairy lips.

Barbate

B'ARBATE

B'ARBATED, adjective [Latin barbatus, from barba. See Barb.]

In botany, bearded; also gaping or ringent. Barbatus flos, a gaping or ringent flower; synonymous with the ringent flower of Linne, and the labiate of Tournefort.

Barbe

B'ARBE. In the military art, to fire in barbe is to fire the cannon over the parapet, instead of firing through the embrasures.

Barbecue

B'ARBECUE, noun In the West Indies, a hog roasted whole. It is, with us, used for an ox or perhaps any other animal dressed in like manner.

B'ARBECUE, verb transitive To dress and roast a hog whole, which is done by splitting the hog to the back bone, and roasting it on a gridiron; to roast any animal whole.

Barbed

B'ARBED, participle passive [See Barb.]

1. Furnished with armor; as barbed steeds.

2. Bearded; jagged with hooks or points; as barbed arrows.

3. Shaved or trimmed; having the beard dressed.

Barbel

B'ARBEL, noun [Latin barba.]

1. A fish of the genus Cyprinus, of the order of abdominals. The mouth is toothless; the gill has three rays; the body is smooth and white. This fish is about three feet long, and weighs 18 pounds. It is a very coarse fish, living in deep still rivers and rooting like swine in the soft banks. Its dorsal fin is armed with a strong spine, sharply serrated, from which circumstance it probably received its name.

2. A knot of superfluous flesh, growing in the channels of a horse's mouth; written also barble, or barb.

Barber

B'ARBER, noun One whose occupation is to shave men, or to shave and dress hair.

B'ARBER, verb transitive To shave and dress hair.

Barber-Chirurgeon

B'ARBER-CHIRURGEON, noun One who joins the practice of surgery with that of a barber; a practice now unusual. A low practitioner of surgery.

Barber-Monger

B'ARBER-MONGER, noun A man who frequents the barber's shop, or prides himself in being dressed by a barber; a fop.

Barberness

B'ARBERNESS, noun A female barber. [Not used.]

Barberry

B'ARBERRY, noun [Latin berberis.]

1. A plant of the genus berberis, common in hedges; called in England, pipperidge bush. The berries are used in housewifery, and are deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, especially the bark of the root. This plant is pernicious to wheat, the ears of which will not fill, if within the effluvia of the plant; and the influence of this has been known to extend three or four hundred yards.