Baptist

bapt'ist, n. one who baptises one who approves only of adult baptism by immersion. Baptistery, bapt'ist-Cr-i, «. a place where baptism is administered. Bar, bar, a rod of any solid substance.* a bolt a ninderance or obstruction a bank of SATwi or other matter at the mouth of a rivers th that incloses a space m a tavern or in a court of law: any tribunal: the pleaders m a cpdrt as distinguished from the judges a division in music — v to fasten or secure, as with a bar: to hinder or exclude: pr.j barring, pa.fi. b irred' Fi barre 1 barra of Celtic origin, Barb, bhrb, the beard -like jag near the point of an arrow, fish-hook, . v to arm w£*h barbs, as an arrow, . [Fr- —L. barb a a beard.] Barb, barb, «. a swift kind of horse, the breed of which came from Barbary in North Africa. Barbaoan, barb a-kan, Barbican, bar'bi-kan, u. an outer work or defence of a ca$ile, espbefore a gate or bridge. [Low L. bavbacana, prob. from Pers.] Barbarian, bar-bar’ an, adj uncivilised savage: without taste or refinement. 'an uncivilised man, a savage a cruel, brutal man. [L. barbarns, Gr. barbaros -bar, bar, an imitation, of unintelligible sounds—applied by the Greeks (and afterwards the Romans) ta those speaking ^ life rent language from themselves.}