bartir

t. [Ger. barteeren = to exact a fine.] To lodge, properly on free quarters. (0. Scotch.) "In the most eminent parts of the city they placed three great bodies of foot; the rest were put in small parties and bar tired in the several lanes and suspected places."-Mercur. Caledon., Feb. 1, 1661, p. 21. (Jamio 801.) bar-ti-zăn' (Eng. & Scotch ), *bar-ti-se'ne, *běr-ti-şě'ne (O. Scotch ), s. [O.Fr. bretesche = wooden towers; Ital. bertesca a kind of rampart or fence of war, made upon towers, to let down or be raised at pleasure; a blockhouse ( Altieri ); Low Lat. bretasche, bertescæ = wooden towers. In its modern form barti zan the word was probably introduced by Sir Walter Scott. The sense in which he used it was unknown in med iæval times. Dr. Murray calls the word a "spurious antique."] [BRATTICE.] 1. Of castles or houses: A battlement on the top of a house or castle. (Jamie son.) BARTIZAN. (GLAMIS CASTLE.) Specially: A small overhanging turret proJecting from the angle on the top of a tower, or from the parapet or other parts of a building. (Glo . of Arch .) "So near they were, that they might know The straining harsh of each cro bow; On battlement and bartizan Gleamed axe, and spear, and partizan." Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel, iv. 17. 2. Of cathedrals or churches: The battlement surrounding a spire or steeple or the roof of a cathedral or church. "That the morn afternoon the town's colours be put upon the bertisene of the steeple, that at three o'clock the bells begin to ring, and ring on still, till his Majesty comes hither, and pa es on to Austruther." -Records Pitten weem , 1651. ( Statist . Acc., iv. 376.) (Jamie son:) "While visitors found acce to by a projecting gateway, the bartizan or flat-leaved roof of which was acce ible from the terrace by an easy flight of low and broad steps."-Scott: Bride of Lammer moor , ch. xxii.