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[A corruption of bard2, perhaps by confusion with barb1, a beard, or barb3, a Barbary horse.] Same as bard2, n. He left his loftie steed with golden sell And goodly gorgeous barbes . Spenser, F. Q., II. ii. 11. Their horses were naked, without any barbs , for albeit many brought barbs , few regarded to put them on. Sir J. Hayward , Edw. VI., p. 32. barathrum (bar'a-thrum), n.; pl. barathra (-thrä). [L., βάραθρον , Ionic βέρεθρον , contr. βέθρον, a gulf, pit.] t.] 1. A rocky cky place or pit outside the walls of ancient Athens, into which criminals were thrown.-21. The aby ; barb2+ (bärb), v. t. [ hell. He will eat a leg of mutton while I am in my porridge, his belly is like Barathrum . B. Jonson, Poetaster, iii. 1. 31. Anything that swallows up or devours; the belly; an insatiable glutton or extortioner. You come To scour your dirty maw with the good cheer, Which will be damn'd in your lean barathrum , That kitchen-stuff devourer. Shirley, The Wedding, ii. 3. You barathrum of the shambles! Mas singer , A New Way to Pay Old Debts, iii. 2. barato (bä-rä'tō), n. [Sp., as in def., lit. cheapne , low price, bargain, barato , cheap: see barrat.] A portion of a gamester's winnings given "for luck" to the bystanders. N. E. D. barb1 (bärb), n. [ barbe , barbe , F. barbe = Pr. Sp. Pg. It. barb a , barb a , beard: see beard .] 1. A beard; anything which resembles a beard or grows in the place of it. The barbel, so called by reason of his barbs , or wattles in his mouth. I. Walton , Complete Angler. 2. In bot., a terminal tuft of hairs; a beard; more usually, a retrorse tooth or double tooth IMG:content-1649.png:[blocks in formation] terminating an awn or prickle.-3. In ornith., one of the proce es, of first order, given off by the rachis of a feather. The vane [of a feather] consists of a series of appre ed, flat, narrowly linear or lance linear lam inæ or plates, set obliquely on the rhachis by their varying ingange fronding in open a free point; each such narrow acute plate is called a barb. Coues, Key to N. A. Birds, p. 84. 4. One of the sharp points projecting backward from the penetrating extremity of an arrow, fish-hook, or other instrument for piercing, intended to fix it in place; a beard. Having two points or barbs . Ascham , Toxophilus (Arber), p. 135. 5. A linen covering for the throat and breast, sometimes also for the lower part of the face, worn by women throughout the middle ages in western Europe. It was at times peculiar to nuns or women in mourning. Do wey your barbe and shew youre face bare. Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 110. 6. A band or small scarf of lace, or other fine material, worn by women at the neck or as a headdre .-7. Same as bar bel , 3.-8. In her ., one of the five leaves of the calyx which project beyond yond and between the petals of the heraldic rose. See barbed1 , 3.-9. A bur or roughne produced in the course of metal-working, as in coining and engraving.-10. A military term Barb, middle of 14th cen turyict (From Viollet-le-Duc's "Dict. du Mobilier français.") IMG:content-1650.png:[blocks in formation] Macaulay , Hist. Eng., iii. The importance of improving our studs by an infusion of new blood was strongly felt; and with this view a considerable number of barbs had lately been brought into the country. 2. A breed of domestic pigeons having a short broad beak, cla ed by Darwin with the carriers and runts. Also called barb - pigeon , Barbary pigeon, and Barbary carrier.-3. A sciænoid fish, Ment i cirrus alburnus , better known as king fish . See kingfish . barbacant, n. See barbican1 . barbacou (bär'ba-kö), n. [F. barbacou , irreg. barbu , a barbet, +( tur ) acou or ( cou ) cou , cuckoo.] A name given by Le Vaillant to the American barbets of the family Bucconida, to distinguish them from the barbets proper of the family Capi to nid a. The South American barbacous are the birds of the genera, Monasa and Cheli doptera. barbacue, n. See barbecие. Bar bad i an (bär-ba'di-an), a. and n. [ II. n. An inhabitant of Barbados, the most eastern island of the West Indies, belonging to Great Britain. Barbados cherry, leg, nut, tar, etc. See the nouns. Barbados-pride (bär-bā'dōz-prīd), n. 1. A prickly leguminous shrub, Cæsalpinia pulcher rima, of tropical regions, planted for hedges as well as for the beauty of its flowers. Also called Barbados flower-fence.-2. In the West Indies, a handsome flowering leguminous tree, A den anther a pav on in a, introduced from the East Indies. barbarianism archs (Enoch, Elijah, etc.) are men; hence, all patriarchs are mortal. It is the type of all syllogism. This name is believed to have been invented by Petrus His pan us (Pope John XXI., died 1277), although Prantl thinks the work of William of Shyrwode (died 1249) in which it is found is earlier. See mood2. barbaresque (bär-ba-resk'), a. and n. [F. barbaresque, of Barbary, Sp. Pg. barbaresco = It. barbaresco (obs.), of Barbary, barbarous: see barbar and -esque. Cf. barbary.] I. a. 1. Characteristic of or appropriate to barbarians; barbarous in style. [Rare.] Our European and East Indian coins are the basest of all base products from rude barbaresque handicraft. De Quincey, Secret Societies, i. 2. [ cap .] Of or pertaining to Barbary in north ern Africa. II. n. [ cap .] A native of Barbary. Jefferson . [Rare.] barbari (bär'ba-rī), n. In logic, the mnemonic name of a kind of syllogism the premises of which are those of a syllogism in barbara (which see), while the conclusion is only a particular instead of a universal affirmative: as, All men are mortal; all kings are men; hence, some kings are mortal. This kind of syllogism was noticed by Occam, and the name was invented by one of his followers, Albert of Saxony. See mood2. barbarian (bär-bā'ri-an), n. and a. [F. bar barien, Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian , and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me. 1 Cor. xiv. 11. It is well known that many of the Roman Emperors were barbarians who had been succe ful soldiers in the Stillé, Stud. Med. Hist., p. 50. vas a barbarian; with Imperial army. [With the Greeks, one not a Greek was the Romans, one outside the pale of the Roman empire or its civilization, and especially a person belonging to one of the northern nations who overthrew the empire; with the Italians of the Renai ance period, one of a nation outside of Italy. Among the Chinese, one who is not a Chinaman, and especially a European or an American, is commonly spoken of as a western barbarian. The treaties with the Chinese government, however, stipulate that the Chinese term ( ye ) thus translated shall not be used in documents of any of the treaty powers, or of their subjects or citizens.] 2. One outside the pale of Christian civilization.-3. A man in a rude, savage state; an uncivilized person. There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother-he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday! Byron, Childe Harold, iv. 141. 4. An uncultured person; one who has no sympathy with culture; a philistine.-5. A cruel, savage, brutal person; one destitute of pity or humanity: as, "thou fell barbarian, " Philips. 6t. [ cap.] A native of Barbary.=Syn. Heathen, etc. See gentile, n. II. a. 1. Foreign; of another or outside na tion; hence, non-Hellenic, non-Roman, non Christian, non-Chinese, etc. Thou art bought and sold among those of any wit, like a barbarian slave. Shak ., T. and C., ii. 1. 2. Of or pertaining to savages; rude; uncivil ized.-3. Cruel; inhuman; barbarous. The stormy rage and hate of a barbarian tyrant. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xxiii. 4t. [ cap.] Of or belonging to Barbary. = Syn. Barbarian, Barbarous, Barbaric, unlettered, uncultivated, untutored, ignorant. Barbarian applies to whatever pertains to the life of an uncivilized people, without special reference to its moral aspects. Barbarous properly expre es the bad side of barbarian life and character, especially its inhumanity or cruelty: as, a barbarous act. Bar adornment, magnificence, noise, etc., but it is not commonly applied to persons; it implies the lack of cultivated taste: as, barbaric music; barbaric splendor. Bar barian and barbaric are now strictly confined to the meanings named above. baric expre es the characteristic love of barbarians for IMG:content-1651.png:[graphic] This barbarian tongue raises him far above what he Whitney, Life and Growth of Lang., ii, barb a Hispanic a (bär bä his-pan'i-kä), n. [NL., lit. Spanish beard.] A name given to could have become had he never learned to speak at all. the plant Tillandsia usneoides . See long - mo . barbaloin (bär'ba-lō-in or -loin), n. A neu- tral substance (C34H36014+H2O) crystallizing in tufts of small yellow prisms, extracted from Barbados aloes.