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Show BA BA $n March 3 but in ftrong clayey foils it §5 no fown till April. The fquare barley, or big, i chiefly cultivated in the north of England, and i Scotland; and is hardier than the other forts Miller Barley is emollient, moiftening, and expectorating 3 barley was chofen by Hippocrates as proper food in inflammatory diftempers Arbutbnot on Aliments BA'RLEYBRAKE play # / A kind of rura By neighbours prais'd fhe went abroad thereby Sidney At barleybrake her fweet fwift feet to try BarLEY BROTH. 7 /. [from barley an broth.] A low word fometimes ufed fo firong beer B A meafuring the weight of the atmofphere and the variations 1in it, in order chiefl to determine the changes of the weather It differs from the barofcope, whic only fhews that the air is heavier at on time than another, without fpecifyin the difference.. The barometer is founde upon the Torricellian experiment, f called from Torricelli, the inventor o it, at Florence, in 1643. Itis a glaf tube filled with mercury, horizontall fealed at one end ; the other open, an immerged in a bafi of ftagnant mer cury : {o that, as the weigh of the at Can fodden water A drench for furreyn'd jades, their barley broth mofphere diminifhes, the mercury in th BarLEY cOrRN. 7 /. [from barley an corn.] A grain of barley; the beginning of our meafure of length ; the thir part of an inch the mercury will afcend; the colum of mercury fulpended in the tube bein always equal to the weight of the incumbent atmofphere Decoét their cold blood to fuch valiant heat ? Shak A long, long journey, choak'd with brakes an thorns Tickell 111 eafur'd by ten thoufind barley corns BarnEy Mow. n. jf. [from barley an mow.] The place where reaped barle is ftowed up Whenever by yon barley mow T pafs Before my eyes will trip the tidy lafs Gay BARM. #. /. [burm, Welfh ; beonm, Sax. Yeaft ; the ferment put int mak i work int an lighten and {well it drink t bread t Are you not h That fometimes make the drink bear no barm Miflead night wand'rers, laughing at their harm Sbakefpeare "Try the force of imagination upon ftaying th working of beer, when the barm is put into i Bacon Ba'rmy adj. [from barm. Containin barm ; yeafty Their jovial nights in frolicks and in pla TFhey pafs, to drive the tedious hours away And their cold ftomachs with crown'd gobiets chee Dryden Of windy cider, and of daimy beer BarnN, #. /. [benn, Sax.] A place or houf for laying up any fort of grain, hay, o ftraw In vain the barns'expeét their promis'd load Nor barns at home nor reeks are heap'd abroad Dryden I took notice of the make of barns here: having laid a frame of wood, they place, at the fou corners, four blocks, in fuch a fhape as neithe Addifon " mice nor vermin can creep up BaA'RNvacCLE. #. /- [probably of beajn Sax. a child, and aac, Sax. an oak. *. A kind of fhell fifh that grow upo timber that lies in the fea. 2. A bird like a goofe, fabuloufly fuppofe to. grow on trees it is beyond even an atheift's credulity and impudence, to affirm that the firft men might gro upon trees, as the ftory goes about barnacles; o might be the lice of fome vaft prodigious animals whofe fpecies is now extinét Beniley And from the moft refin'd of faint As naturally grow mifcreants As barnacles turn Soland geef Ia th' iflands of the Orcades Hudibras 3. An infirument made commonly of iro for the ufe of farriers, to hold a horfe b the nofe,. to hinder him from ftrugglin Farr. Dif2 when an incifion 1s made BARO'METER . /. [from 2de®-, weight and uéreor, meafure. A machine fo tube will defcend and as it increafes The meafuring the heights of mountains, an finding the elevation of places above the level o the fea, hath been much promoted by barometrical experiments, founded upon that eflentia A property of the air, its gravity or preflure the column of mercury in the barometeris counter~poifed by a column of air of equal weight, fo whatever caufes make the air heavier or lighter, th preflure of it will be thereby increafed or leffened and of confequence the mercury will rife or fall Harris Gravity is another property of air, whereby i counterpoifes a column of mercury from twentyfeven inches and one half to thirty and one half the gravity of the atmofphere varying one tenth which are its utmoft limits; fo that the exa fpecifick gravity of the air can be determine when the éarometer ftands at thirty inches, with moderate heat of the weather Arbutbnot on Air Baromi'rrICAL. adj. [from barometer. Relating to the barometer He is very accurate in making barametrical an thermometrical inftruments, Derb. Phyfico-Theol BA'RON. 2. . [The etymology of thi word is very uncertain Baro, amon the Romans, fignified a brave warriour or a brutal man ; and, from the firft o thefe fignifications, Menage derives beron, as a term of military- dignity Others fuppofe it originally to fignif only a man, in which fenfe &aron, o waron, is ftill ufed by the Spaniards and, to confirm this conjefture, our la yet ufes baron and femme, hufband an - wife Others deduce it from ber, a old Gaulifh word, fignifying commander; other fro the Hebre =921 o the fame import Some think it a contra&ion of par homme, or peer, whic feems leaft probable. 1. A degree of nobility next to a vifcount It may be probably thought, that anciently, in England, all thofe were calle barons, that had fuch figniories as w now call cowrt barons : and it is faid that, after the Conqueft, all {fuch cam to the parliament, and fat as nobles i the upper houfe. But when, by experience, it appeared that the parliamen was too much crowded with {fuch multitudes it becam a cuftom tha non thould come but fuch as the king, fo their extraordinary wifdom or quality thought good to call by writ; whic writ ran hac wice tantum, After that men feeing that this ftate of nobility wa but cafual, and depending merely on th prince's pleafuré, obtained of the kin letters patent of this dignity to the thefe wer male; an heir thei an called barons by letters patent, or b creation, whofe pofterity are now thof barons that are called lords of the parliament ; of which kind the king ma create more at his pleafure. Itis neverthelefs thought, that there are yet baron writ b wel a as baron b letter patent, and that they may be difcerne by their titles ; the barons by writ bein thofe that, to the title of lord, have thei own furnames, annexed ; whereas th barons by letters patent are named b thei baronies the hav Thef barons whic were firft by writ, may now juftly alf be called darons by prefcription ; for tha continue barons in them felves and their anceftors, beyond tli There are alfo baron memory of man by tenure, as th bifhop of the land who, by virtue of baronies annexed t their bithopricks, have always had plac in the upper houfe of parliament, an are called lords {piritual 2. Baron is an officer, as barons of the exchequer to the king: of thefe the principal is called lord chief baron, and th three others are his affiftants, betwee the king and his fubjets, in caufes o juftice belonging to the exchequer 3. There are alfo barons of the cinqu ports ;- two to each of the feven towns Haftings, Winchelfea, Rye, Rumney Hithe, Dover, and Sandwich, that hav places in the lower houfe of parliament. Cowell They that bea The clath of ftate above, are four baron Of the cinque ports Shakelpeare 4+ Baron is ufed for the hufband in relatio to his wife 5. A Baron o are not cu by the en Ba'RoNaGE 1. The bod Coavell Beef is when the two firloin afunder, but joined togethe of the backbone Didt n /. [from baron. of barons and peers His charters of the liberties of England, and o the foreft, were hardly, and with difficulty, gaine by his baronage at Staines, A. D. 1215 Hale 2.. The dignity ofa baron 3. The land which gives title to a baron Ba'rRonNESs. #. [ [baronefa, Ital. baronifla, Lat.] A baron's lady Ba'ronNET. 7.[ [of baron, and e, diminutive termination.] The loweft degre of honour that is hereditary : it is belo a baron and above a knight; and ha the precedency of all other knights, except the knights of the garter. Itwa firft founded by king James I. 4. D But it appears, by th 1611. Cewell following paflage, that the term was i ufe before, though in another fenfe King Edward IIl. bein the clergy, wa certai bearded and crofied b advifed to dire gentleme of th out his writs t beft abil-ties entitlin B them therein barons in the next parliament which means he had fo many barons in his parliament, as were abl to weigh dow the clergy whic |