Bartramia (bartramia)

[NL., after the naturalist William Bartram (1739-1823).] A genus of sandpipers the type of which is Tringa bartramia of Wilson, now Bartramia longicau Bartram's Sandpiper, or Upland Plover ( Bartramia long i cauda ). da, a common species of North America, variously called Bartram's sandpiper, upland plover, prairie pigeon, and quailly. It belongs to the family Scolopacidæ and subfamily To tan inæ, and is peculiar for the length and graduation of its tail. baru (ba-rö'), n. [Malay name.] A fine woolly substance, used for calking ships, stuffing cushions, etc., found at the base of the leaves of the Arenga sac char if era, a sago-palm of the East Indies. baruria (ba-röʻri-a), n. [NL., pa age of urine of a high specific gravity. barutine (bar'ö-tin), n. [Prob. of Pers. origin.] A kind of silk manufactured in Persia. Simmonds. wise. [E. dial., per barytone zontally acro the field: said of the divisions of the field, and also of any bearing; thus, a sword barwise is a sword borne horizontally. Also barways.