Barbary

(barbah-re.) [Anc. Mauri tan i a, Numidia, Africa Propria, Cyrenaica.] An extensive region, comprising all the N. portion of Africa, from Egypt to the Atlantic Ocean, and from the Mediterranean to the Greater Atlas, and extending between Lat. 25° and 37° N., and Lon. 10° W. and 25° E. It is divided by the Atlas range into 2 regions, that on the N. comprising the 4 Barbary States, viz., Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli; and the S. region, called Beled-ul-Jerid, or Country of Dates. B. and Egypt formed nearly all of Africa known to the ancients. It was peopled chiefly byMoors, Numidians, and Phœnician colonists; it attained great celebrity during the Cart hag in i an dominion; was afterwards subject to the Romans, and occupied for nearly a century by the Vandals. The Arabs took it finally from the Romans, abt. B. c. 697. K (bar bl.) (Zool.) An European fresh-water fish, the Barbus vulgar is, fam. Cyprinidæ, distinguished from the gudgeon by the shortne of the under jaw, and by the po e ion of a strong serrated bony ray at the dorsal fin. (bar'ber.) [From L. barb a, a beard.] A person who makes a trade of shaving and dre ing the hair of other people for money. According to Varo, it was not until the 454th year of the city that Ticinius Mena first imported barbers into Rome from Sicily. As early as the time of Hippo crates, some surgical operations were considered degrading to physicians, and consequently fell to be performed by barbers. At the beginning of the last cent., when a new impulse was given to the science of surgery, the barbers were deprived of their honorable a ociation with surgeons, in France and in England. The barber's pole was the distinguishing characteristic of a few only, indicating on the part of him who po e ed it surgical as well as tonsorial ability. (bar'llz.) [From L. barb a, a beard.] (Far.) The knots of superfluous flesh growing in the channels ofa horse's mouth; that is, in the intervals that separate the bars, and lie under the tongue. (bar'boor,) an E.S.E. co. of Alabama; area, 825 sq. m., C. Clayton. Pop. 29,309. - A N. co. of W. Virginia, mountainous, with an area of 330 sq. m.; C. Philippi. Pop. 10,312. [s. 73]