BARBER

Bar, Confetjekation of. In Politics, was an as so elation of a few influential Polish nobles, formed at Bar, a small town of Podolia, in the year 1767, for the purpose of freeing their country from foreign influence. Their efforts, however, were eminently unsuccce ful: the small bands of the patriots were annihilated one by one; and their defeat gave rise to an event almost unprecedented in history, — the partition of Poland by the three neighbouring powers. Bab. The bar or place in the courts of law where barristers or advocates plead: also where prisoners accused of felony are stationed for arraignment and trial. Bar. In Heraldry, a kind of ordinary, resembling the fe , but containing only the fifth part of" the field, W here two bars are borne in an escutcheon, they are so arranged that the whole field appears divided into five parts. A field divided by horizontal lines into four, six, eight, ten, or twelve equal parts, with alternate tinctures, is termed barry of four, six, eight, . Bar. (Sax. Beop^an, toiar.) In Music, a line drawn vertically acro the lines of the staff, including a certain quantity or measure of time, varying as the music is either triple or common. Bar, Eloquence of. See Eloquence. [s. 143]