Bar master

[Ger. berg meister, mountain-master.] In England, the name given to an officer in mining districts. Bar me cides, ( bar'me-cides.) ( Hist .) An illustrious family of Khor as san, the romance of whose history is equally familiar to Europe ans and Americans in the You sand and One Nights, ("Arabian Nights' Entertainments,") and to Orientals in the pages of their historians and poets; and who flourished at the court of the first Abas sides Caliphs. Barmec, or Barmek, the founder of the family, transmitted the honors conferred on him by the Caliph Abd-al-Malik to his son Khalid, and from him they pa ed to his son Yahia, who, becoming tutor to the famous Haroun-al-Raschid, acquired an influence over that prince; which, with Haroun's personal affection for the family, carried his sons, Fadl, or Fazl, Giaffar, Mohammed, and Mousa, to the highest dignities of the court. The virtues and munificence of the B. were, for a long period, displayed under favor of Haroun, as well as to the admiration of his subjects; but one of the brothers, Giaffar, having at last become an object of suspicion to the cruel and treacherous Caliph, Yahia and his sons were suddenly seized, Giaffar beheaded, and the others condemned to perpetual imprisonment. The year 802 is a igned as the date of this tragedy. Bar'men, in Germany. See ELBERFELD. Bar Mills, in Maine , a post-office of York co. Bar'mouth, or ABER'MAW, a sea-port and bathing resort of England, in N. Wales, co. Merioneth, 55 m. W. of Shrews bury. Its situation is most picturesque, and it is much resorted to by summer tourists. Barm'y, a . Containing barm or yeast. "And their cold stomachs with crown'd goblets cheer Of windy cider, and of barmy beer." -Dryden.