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Show BA BA which barons were not afterwards lords, but bars- netsy as fundry of them do yet retain the name Spenfer Ba'rony. n. /. [baronnie, Fr. beopny Sax.] That honour or lordfhip that give tympanam Did 2 7% _put any thing i tion Such are not only th fees of temporal barons, but of bifhop Coavell alfo If there wa alway wind are not variable, the alteration -vofeape are very fmall of the ba Arbuthnst Ba'rrAcCAN. n. /. [bouracan, or barracan Fr. A ftrong thick kind of camelot Ba'rrack. n /. [barracca, Span. 1. Little cabbins made by the Spanif fifhermen on the fea fhore; or littl lodges for {oldiers in a camp 2. It is generally taken among us for buildings to lodge foldiers .Ba'rrATOR. 2./ [from darat, old Fr " from which is ftill retained baratenr, cheat.] A wrangler, and encourager o law-{uits Will it not refle& as much on thy chara&er Nic, to turn barrator in thy old days, a ftirrer-u of quarrels amongft thy neighbours Arbutbnot's Hiffory of Fohn Bull Ba'RRATRY pratic 7. /. [from barrater.] Th ‘or crim praétice in law of a barrator ; fou *Tis artant barratry, that bear Point blank an a&ion 'gainft our laws Hudibras It hath been obferved by one of the ancients that an empty darrel, knocked upon with th finger, giveth a diapafon to the found of the lik barrel full Bacon Trembling to approac The little barrel, which he fears to broach. Dryd 2. A particular meafure in liquids. barrel of wine is thirty-one gallons an a half; of ale, thirty-two gallons ; o 3 thirty-fi Ba'RREL-BELLIED. adj. [from barrel an belly. gallons an of beer vinegar, thirty-four gallons [In dry meafure.] A darrel of Effe butter contains one hundred and fi pounds ; of Suffolk butter, two hundre -and fifty-fix A barrel of herring fhould contain thirty-two gallons win meafure, holding ufually a thoufand herrings Several colleges, inftead of limiting their rent pay the price of fo many barrels of corn, as th market went Savift 4. Any thing hollow ; as, the barrel of gun, that part which holds the thot Take the barrel of a long gun perfeétly bored fet it upright with the breech upon the ground and take a bullet exaétly fit for it; then, if yo fuck at the mouth of the barre/ ever fo gently ‘the bullet will come up fo forcibly hazard the firiking out your teeth Having a large belly Dauntlefs at empty noifes 5 lofty-neck'd Sharp~headed, barrel-belly'd, broadly back'd. Dryd BA'RREN. z4j. [tane, Sax. naked; properly applied to trees or ground unfruitful. 1. Without the quality of producing it kind ; not prolifick : applied to animals They hail'd him father to a line of kings. Upon my head they plac'd a fruitlefs crown And put a barren fceptre in my gripe Shake[peare No fon of mine fucceeding There thall not be.male or female barren amon you 2 that it wil Digby 5. A cylinder ; frequently that cylinde about which any thing is wound Your ftring and bow muft be accommodated t your drill; if too weal, it will not carry about th barrels . Maston 6. Barrel of the Ear, 1s a cavity behind th I uteronomy D or among your cattle Unfruitful ; not fertile ; flerile The fituation of this city is pledfant, but th water is naught, and the ground barren. 2 Kings Telemachus is far from exalting the nature o his country; he confefles it to be barren. . Pope 3. Not copious; fcanty will appear darren of hints an Swift matter, but prove to be fruitful Some fcheme 4. Unmeaning ; uninventive ; dull There be of them that will make themfelve laugh, to fet on fome quantity of barren fpetator to laugh too Shakefpeare Ba'RrRENLY Ba'rRrEL. ‘n.f. [baril, Welfh. 1. A round wooden veflel to be ftoppe clofe beer le re ba n h r f b e b i th v h u w l Ir o f e S e e n i a uf b m whic Barrel up earth, and fow fome feed in }t;' an acon put it in the bottom ofa pond a calm, the equilibriu could only be changed by the contents; where th mem brane title to a baron ‘Ba'roscorE. #. /. [B&p®- and onowéw.] A inftrument to fhew the weight of the atmofphere. See BAROMETER covered with a fin adv. [from ébarren. fruitfully Un Ba'RRENNESS. . /. [from éarren. 1. Want of offspring; want of the powe of procreation I pray'd for children, and thought barrenne/ Ja wedlock a reproach Milton Wo more be mention'd then of violenc Againtt ourfelves 5 and wilful barrennefs That cuts us off from hope Milton 2. Unfruitfulnefs; fterility; infertility Withi the felf-fame hamlet, lands have diver degrees of value, through the diverfity of thei fertility or barrennefs Bacon 3. Want of invention ; want of the powe of producing any thing new. The adventures of Ulyfles are imitated in th ZEneis5 though the accidents are not the fame which would have argued him of a total barrensnef of invention Dryden 4. Want of matter; fcantinefs The importunity of our adverfaries hath conftrained us longer to dwell than the darrennefs o fo poor a caufe could have feemed either to requir or to admit Hooker 5. [In theology.] Aridity ; want of emotion or fenfibility The greateft faints fometimes are fervent, an fo'met‘imcs feel a barrennefs of devotion Taylor BA'RREN WORT. . /. [epimedium, Lat. The name ofa plant Ba'rRrruL. adj. [from bar and full.] Ful of obftructions A barrful fivife Whoe'er I woo, myfelf would be his wife Shak BARR‘ICIE'D E. u. /o [barricade, Fr. 1. A fortification, made in hafte, of trees earth, waggons, or any thing elfe, t keep off an attack 2. Any ftop ; bar ; obftru&ion ‘There muft be fuch a barricade, as would greatl annoy, or abfolutely ftop, the currents of the atmofphere Derban 7o BArRRICA DE. @ 1. To flop up a paffage Now all the pavement fou feet And the mixt hurry barricades th fiy Entangled here, the waggon's 2. To hinder by floppage A new vulcano continually - dife matter, which being till then jg imprifoned in the bowels of th occafion of very grean a fre Barr1cA'DO. 7./. [barr fortification ; a bar ; hinder entrance ‘The accefs was by a n fea on one part, an har th fea, on the other; fortified clea rampier and barricads 7o BARRICA'DO. @. To fortify; to bar Faft w fou The difmal gates, and barricads'' He had not time to b the enemy entered. G The truth of caufes we findf it feems almof approach barricadeed fr oA BA'RRIER. 7. /o [Barriere, F times pronounce the laft fyllable, but properly on the firft. an en 1. A barricade Safe in the love of heav'n Around our realm, a barric 2. A fortification p or firon the frontiers of a country The queen is guarantee of th - poffeffion of the barriery and th before a peace 3- A flop; an obftruction If you value yourfelf as a man ofl are building a moft impafiabl provement 4. A bar to mark the lim For jufts, and tourneys, a of them are chiefly in the chariots challengers make their entries Pyis'ners to the p At either darrier plac'd 5+ nor, capti Be freed, or arm'd anew 5. A boundary; a limit But wave whate'er to Cadmus And fix, O mufe, the darrie At Oedipus o How inftinét varies in the gro Compar'd, half reas'ning elephan *Twixt that and reafon whata nic For ever fep'rate, yet for ever nea Ba'rRr1STER. 2. £ [from bar qualified to plead cauf vocate or licentiat and courts. Outer ba without the bar, to d from inner barriffers 3 f benchers or thofe who ha ers, the counfel of the k princes, who are admi within the bar. A c Ba'rrow. z. /. [benep Skinner to come *fi'Om‘.é of carriage moved b hand-barrow, a fram ~handles at each end two men ; a wheel-bar one man pufhes forw upon one wheel |