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t.; pret. and pp. barred, ppr. barring. ing. [ Every door is barr'd with gold, and opens but to golden keys. Tennyson, Locksley Hall. Now to all hope her heart is barred and cold. Long fellow, Blind Girl of Castèl-Cuillè, ii. 2. To hinder; obstruct; prevent; prohibit; restrain. IMG:content-1646.png:[blocks in formation] 3. To except; exclude by exception. Nay, but I bar to-night; you shall not gage me By what we do to-night. Shak ., M. of V., ii. 2. 4. To provide with a bar or bars; mark with bars; cro with one or more stripes or lines. A Ceynt she wered, barred al of silke. Chaucer , Miller's Tale, 1. 49. He bars his surfaces with horizontal lines of colour, the expre ion of the level of the Desert. Ruskin . 5. To make into bars. [Rare.] To bar a vein, in farriery , to open the skin above a vein in a horse's leg, disengaging it, tying it both above and below, and striking between the two ligatures: an operation intended to stop malignant humors. Johnson. - To bar dower. See dower2. - To bar an entail. See entail . barl (bär), prep . [Prop. impv. of bar1 , v., 3; cf. barring .] Except; omitting; but: as, to offer to bet two to one against any horse bar one. bar2 (bär), n. [ bar , "the fish called a base" (Cotgrave): see base5 .] An acanthopterygian European fish, Sciana aquila . called maigre . IMG:content-1647.png:[graphic] Also bar3, a. An obsolete (Middle English) or dialectal form of barel. [F., bart. A Middle English preterit of bear1. bar (bär), n. A dialectal form of bear2. [U.S.] bart, n. A Middle English form of baron. baracan, n. See barracan. baræsthesiometer, n. See baresthesiometer. baragouin (ba-rä-gwan' or -gwin'), n. said to be baralipton