barkstove (barkstov)

Same as bark - bed. bark-tanned (bärk'tand), a. Tanned by the slow action of oak, hemlock, or other barks, as leather, in contradistinction to that tanned wholly or in part by chemicals. barky (bär'ki), a. [ : The barky fingers of the elm. Shak ., M. N. D., iv. 1. bar-lathe (bär'lāh), n . A lathe with a single beam, usually having a triangular section, on which the heads or puppets slide. barley1 (bär'li), n . [Early mod. E. also barly , barlye , Sc. barlick ; barly , berley , bar lich , barlic , barley, appar. bere , E. bears , barley, + -lic , E. -ly1 ; the word appears first as an attrib., being formally an adj. The Icel. barlak , and W. barlys , barley (as if bar a , bread, + llysiau , llysau , plants, herbs), Corn. barliz , are from E.] The name of a grain, and of the plant yielding it, belonging to the genus Hordeum , natural order Graminea . This grain has been cultivated from the very earliest times, when it formed an important article of food, as it still does where other cereals cannot be raised. It is largely employed for feeding animals, but its chief use is in the manufacture of fermented liquors, as beer, ale, and porter, and of whisky. No other grain can be cultivated through so great a range of climate, for it matures in Lapland, Norway, and Iceland, in 65° and 70° north latitude, and at an altitude of 11,000 feet in the Andes and Himalaya. The only cultivated species that has been found wild is the two-rowed or long-eared barley, H. distich on , a native of western Asia, but in cultivation in prehistoric times, as was also the six-rowed species, or winter barley, H. hexastichon . Of later origin is the common four-rowed species, Barley. Spike of Hordeum vul gare. spring or summer barley, H. vulgare. Fan-shaped barley, also called battledore or sprat-barley, H. zeocriton, is perhaps only a cultivated form of the two-rowed species. varieties species are found cultivation. The grain differs generally from wheat in retaining closely its husks; it is also somewhat le nutritious and palata ble as an article of food. See Hordeum. - Caustic barley, an early name for the seeds of Schænocaulon offici veratrin.- Mouse, wall, way, or wild barley, Hor deum murinum, a gra of little value. - Patent barley, the farina obtained by grinding pearl-barley.-Pearl-bar called in medicine sabadilla, and used as a source of ley, the grain deprived and pellicle and completely rounded by grinding. It is used in making broths and in soups.-Scotch, pot, or hulled barley, the grain deprived of the husk in a mill. IMG:content-1677.png:[blocks in formation] barley-bree, barley-broo (bär'li-brē, brö), n. barm-clotht, n. An apron. Chaucer . Liquor made from malt, whether by brewing Barmecidal (bär'mē-si-dal), a . Same as Bar- or distillation; ale or whisky. [Scotch.] mecide. barley-broth (bär'li-brôth), n. 1. Broth made by boiling barley and meat with vegetables. [Scotch.] -2. Ale or beer: used jocosely, and also in contempt, as in the extract. IMG:content-1678.png:[blocks in formation]