Bar

bär, n. a rod of any solid substance: a bolt: a hindrance or obstruction—the barrier of a city or street, as the bars of York, Temple Bar, a toll-bar: a bank of sand or other matter at the mouth of a river: any terminus or limit (of life)—e.g. as in To cro the bar : the railing that encloses a space in a tavern, the counter acro which drinks are served, a public-house: the wooden rail dividing off the judge's seat , at which prisoners are placed for arraignment or sentence—hence, To appear at the bar , To pa the bar = to be formally referred for trial from a lower court to a higher: any tribunal: the pleaders in a court as distinguished from the judges: a division in music.— v.t. to fasten or secure, as with a bar: to hinder or exclude:— pr.p. bar′ring; pa.p. barred.— ns. Bar′-ī′ron , iron in malleable bars; Bar′maid , a female waiter at the bar of a tavern or hotel.— prep. Bar′ring , excepting, saving.— ns. Bar′ring-out , the shutting of the school-room doors and windows by the pupils against the master, in order to enforce a ent to their demands; Bar′wood , a kind of red dye-wood imported from Africa in bars. [O. Fr. barre —Low L. barra , perh. of Celt. origin.]