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pl. [Mod. Lat. barler ( iœ ); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -ideœ.] Bot. A family of plants belonging to the order Acanth aceæ; type, Barleria (q.v.). bar-ley (1), * bar'-ly, * bar'-li, * bar'liche, * bar'-lich, * bar'-lic, * bar'-lig, *bær-lie (O. Eng .), bar'-la (0. Scotch ), s. & a. [A.S. bere , bærlic = barley (BERE); Wel. barlys (from bar a = bread, and llye = a plant) corn, barley.] A. As substantive: The seeds or grains of various species and varieties of the genus 442 IMG:content-1070.jpg:[graphic] Hordeum. That most commonly in cultivation is Hordeum vulgare , spring or two-rowed barley, especially the rath-ripe and Thanet sorts. H. hexastichon (i.e., with the seeds growing in six rows) is the bear or bigg , cultivated in the north of Scotland and elsewhere. H. distich on, two-rowed or common barley, is preferred for malting, which is one of the chief purposes for which barley is cultivated. [MALT.] H. zeocriton , or sprat-barley, is more rare. Perhaps the four so-called species now enumerated may be only varieties of one plant. Barley is the hardiest of all the cereals, and was originally a native of Asia, but it is now cultivated all over the world, even as far north as Lapland. In ancient times it was largely used as an article of food, but the greater proportion of the barley grown in Great Britain is now used in the preparation of malt and spirits. For culinary purposes it is sold in two forms, Scotch or pot barley, and pearl barley, the former being the grain partially deprived of its husk; the latter, by longer and closer grinding, being rounded and having the entire husk removed. Bread made from barley-meal is darker in colour and le nutritious than that made from wheat flour; but it is cheaper and more easily digested. One pound of barley-meal contains one ounce of flesh-formers and fourteen ounces of heat-givers. Barley-meal is sometimes adulterated with oat-husks, and is itself used to adulterate oatmeal, and occasionally wheat-flour; but these admixtures are readily detected by the microscope. "Ich bouhte hure barliche ." - Piers Plowman. (S. in Boucher .) In Scripture "barley, Heb.ser ah ) Sept. Gr. κριθή ( krithe ), seems properly translated. The Hebrew term is from שערה sarah ( = hair, from שָׂעַר ) saar ) = to be bristly; referring to the long awns of the body. B. As adjective: Consisting of barley, or in any other way connected with barley. (See the compounds which follow.)