barmkin

[BARNEKIN.] * barm'-ỹ (0. Eng.), * bârm'-ie ( Scotch ), a. [O. Eng. & Scotch barm; -у.] 1. Lit .: Pertaining to barm or yeast; containing barm or yeast. "Their jovial nights in frolicks and in play They pa , to drive the tedious hours hours away: And their cold stomachs with crown'd goblets cheer Of windy cider, and of barmy beer."-Dryden, 2. Lit .: Acting like barm; fermenting with thought; at work with creative effect. "Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme, My barmie noddle's working prime." Burns: To James Smith IMG:content-1074.png:[blocks in formation] "A wheen cork-headed barmy -brained gowks! that winna let puir folk sae muckle as die in quiet." Scott : St. Ronan , ch. xxxii. barn, barne, * bērne, s . [A.S. bærn , berern, lit., a barley- place , i.e., for storing barley, from bere = barley, and ern , ærn = a place, secret place, a closet, a habitation, a house, a cottage.] 1. A house or other covered enclosure designed for the storage of grain. "The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered."-Joel i. 17. 2. Anything like a barn in outward appear ance. "In front there are a few cultivated fields, and beyond then the smooth hill of coloured rocks called the Flagstaff, and the rugged square black ma of the Barn."-Darwin: Voyage round the World , ch. xxi.