barbotine (bar bot in)

[F., wormwood, semen-contra, barbican1 (bär bi-kan), n. also barb a can , etc., barbican , berbikan , barbygan, etc., barbicane , barbaquenne , barbicão = It. barbicane , barbican a , bar- mod. F. barbicane = Pr. Sp. barbican a = Pg. bacana, * barb a can us , a barbican: supposed to be IMG:content-1660.png:[blocks in formation] Barbican. Plan of Castle of Car cas sonne, France; 12th and 13th centuries. A, C, barbican protecting the approach on the side of the town; n; B, sally-port.main main barbican without the walls; E, E ', Z, F, H, fort if ended by machicolations, drawbridge, a berse, etc.; L, interior court of castle; M, secondary court; N, N, covered galleries affording accommodations in case of siege; 0, 0, chief gate of the castle and fied way between the castle and the barbican; 1, postern-gate, de bridge over the moat; P , Q , Q , permanent lodgings, three stories high; R , R , double donjon, or keep; S, watch-tower; T, guard-post between the double walls of the city; V , barriers carried arried acro the space intervening between the city walls; X , Y , X , towers connected by curtains. (From Viollet-le-Duc's "Dict. de l'Architecture.") See barbar . of the senses of the latter, as applied to birds either of the family Bucconida or family Capi tonida. See these words, and barbet2.-2. pl. The birds of the family Capi to nide alone, as distinguished from the Bucconida. barbula (bär bū-lä), n.; pl. barbulæ (-lē). [L., a little beard, a small barb: see barbule.] 1. Same as barbule, 1.-2. [ cap.] [NL.] A large genus of true mo es characterized by terminal, erect fruit, and a peristome of long filiform segments spirally twisted to the left.3. [ cap.] [NL.) A genus of bivalve mollusks.