Bar (n.) The place in court where prisoners are stationed for arraignment, trial, or sentence.
Bar (n.) The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession.
Bar (n.) A special plea constituting a sufficient answer to plaintiff's action.
Bar (n.) Any tribunal; as, the bar of public opinion; the bar of God.
Bar (n.) A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept.
Bar (n.) An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field.
Bar (n.) A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color.
Bar (n.) A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.
Bar (n.) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
Bar (n.) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the center of the sole.
Bar (n.) A drilling or tamping rod.
Bar (n.) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
Bar (n.) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
Bar (n.) A slender strip of wood which divides and supports the glass of a window; a sash bar.
Barred (imp. & p. p.) of Bar
Barring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bar
Bar (n.) To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.
Bar (n.) To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up.
Bar (n.) To except; to exclude by exception.
Bar (n.) To cross with one or more stripes or lines.
Barb (n.) Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
Barb (n.) A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners.
Barb (n.) Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen.
Barb (n.) The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
Barb (n.) A bit for a horse.
Barb (n.) One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane. See Feather.
Barb (n.) A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States; -- also improperly called whiting.
Barb (n.) A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
Barbed (imp. & p. p.) of Barb
Barbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Barb
Barb (v. t.) To shave or dress the beard of.
Barb (v. t.) To clip; to mow.
Barb (v. t.) To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.
Barb (n.) The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.
Barb (n.) A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
Barb (n.) Armor for a horse. Same as 2d Bard, n., 1.
Barbacan (n.) See Barbican.
Barbacanage (n.) See Barbicanage.
Barbadian (a.) Of or pertaining to Barbados.
Barbadian (n.) A native of Barbados.
Barbados (n.) Alt. of Barbadoes
Barbadoes (n.) A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc.
Barbara (n.) The first word in certain mnemonic lines which represent the various forms of the syllogism. It indicates a syllogism whose three propositions are universal affirmatives.
Barbaresque (a.) Barbaric in form or style; as, barbaresque architecture.
Barbarian (n.) A foreigner.
Barbarian (n.) A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state.
Barbarian (n.) A person destitute of culture.
Barbarian (n.) A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity.
Barbarian (a.) Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations.
Barbaic (a.) Of, or from, barbarian nations; foreign; -- often with reference to barbarous nations of east.
Barbaic (a.) Of or pertaining to, or resembling, an uncivilized person or people; barbarous; barbarian; destitute of refinement.
Barbarism (n.) An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness.
Barbarism (n.) A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage.
Barbarism (n.) An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism.
Barbarities (pl. ) of Barbarity
Barbarity (n.) The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization.
Barbarity (n.) Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity.
Barbarity (n.) A barbarous or cruel act.
Barbarity (n.) Barbarism; impurity of speech.
Barbarized (imp. & p. p.) of Barbarize
Barbarizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Barbarize
Barbarize (v. i.) To become barbarous.
Barbarize (v. i.) To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.
Barbarize (v. t.) To make barbarous.
Barbarous (a.) Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country.
Barbarous (a.) Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste.
Barbarous (a.) Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; merciless.
Barbarous (a.) Contrary to the pure idioms of a language.
Barbarously (adv.) In a barbarous manner.
Barbarousness (n.) The quality or state of being barbarous; barbarity; barbarism.
Barbary (n.) The countries on the north coast of Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic. Hence: A Barbary horse; a barb. [Obs.] Also, a kind of pigeon.
Barbastel (n.) A European bat (Barbastellus communis), with hairy lips.
Barbate (a.) Bearded; beset with long and weak hairs.
Barbated (a.) Having barbed points.
Barbecue (n.) A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
Barbecue (n.) A social entertainment, where many people assemble, usually in the open air, at which one or more large animals are roasted or broiled whole.
Barbecue (n.) A floor, on which coffee beans are sun-dried.
Barbecued (imp. & p. p.) of Barbecue
Barbecuing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Barbecue
Barbecue (v. t.) To dry or cure by exposure on a frame or gridiron.
Barbecue (v. t.) To roast or broil whole, as an ox or hog.
Barbed (a.) Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See Barded ( which is the proper form.)
Barbed (a.) Furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire.
Barbel (n.) A slender tactile organ on the lips of certain fished.
Barbel (n.) A large fresh-water fish ( Barbus vulgaris) found in many European rivers. Its upper jaw is furnished with four barbels.
Barbel (n.) Barbs or paps under the tongued of horses and cattle. See 1st Barb, 3.
Barbellate (a.) Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point.
Barbellulate (a.) Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs.
Barber (n.) One whose occupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and to cut and dress the hair of his patrons.
Barbered (imp. & p. p.) of Barber
Barbering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Barber
Barber (v. t.) To shave and dress the beard or hair of.
Barber fish () See Surgeon fish.
Barbermonger (n.) A fop.
Barberry (n.) A shrub of the genus Berberis, common along roadsides and in neglected fields. B. vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red berries are made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root.
Barbet (n.) A variety of small dog, having long curly hair.
Barbet (n.) A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa.
Barbet (n.) A larva that feeds on aphides.
Barbette (n.) A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet.
Barbican (n.) Alt. of Barbacan