barnyard

A yard or enclosure, open to the sky, attached to a barn. "Barn-yard and dwelling, blazing bright, Served to guide me on my flight." Scott : Lay of the Last Minstrel, iv. 6. * bärn, * bärne, s . [BAIRN.] Bar'-na-bite, s. & a. [Named after the Church of St. Barnabas at Milan, given over to the Barn a bite order in 1535.] I. As substantive. Ch. Hist .: Any member of a certain religious order, properly called the Regular Clerks of St. Paul. Its founders belonged to Milan. It arose in the sixteenth century, was approved by Clement VII. in 1532, and confirmed by Paul III. in 1535. The principal occupation of the Barn a bites was preaching to sinners. (Mosheim: Ch. Hist ., Cent. xvi., sect. iii., pt. i., ch. 1.) II. As adjective : Pertaining to any member of the order described under No. I., or to the order itself.