Barsac (barsak)

[F.] A general name for the white wines made in Barsac, department of Gironde, France. All the Barsac wines are sweetish; but they have a certain bitterne , and sometimes a tarry or resinous flavor, which prevents their being lus IMG:content-1700.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1701.png:[blocks in formation] head at each end, for merly used for destroy ing masts and rigging in naval warfare.-2. In her., two bullets or balls Bar-shot. connected by a short bar like a dumb-bell.