Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 12
Barbacan (n.) (Fort.) 碉堡；望樓或其他類似的防禦工事 A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong, having a ditch and drawbridge of its own.
Compare: Ditch
Ditch (n.) [C] 溝；壕溝；水道，渠道 A narrow channel dug at the side of a road or field, to hold or carry away water.
‘Their car went out of control and plunged into a ditch.’
Ditch (v.) [With object] 在……上掘溝；；用溝渠圍住；把（車）開入溝裡；使（火車）出軌；使（飛機）作水上迫降 Provide with a ditch or ditches.
‘He was praised for ditching the coastal areas.’
Ditch (v.) [No object] Make or repair ditches.
‘We ditched around our tents.’
Ditch (v.) [With object] (Informal) Get rid of or give up.
‘Plans for the road were ditched following a public inquiry’
Ditch (v.) [With object] End a relationship with (someone) peremptorily.
‘She ditched her husband to marry the window cleaner.’
Ditch (v.) [With object] (North American) Play truant from (school).
‘Maybe she could ditch school and run away.’
Ditch (v.) [With object] Bring (an aircraft) down on water in an emergency.
‘He was picked up by a gunboat after ditching his plane in the Mediterranean.’
Ditch (v.) [No object] (Of an aircraft) Make a forced landing on water.
‘The aircraft was obliged to ditch in the sea off the North African coast.’
Ditch (v.) [With object] [US] Derail (a train).
‘Royal Mail controversially announced last June that it was ditching the trains, after 173 years, in favour of road and air transport.’
‘In Halifax I ditched the train in the first little yard (was it called Rockington... something like that), by the Bedford Basin, and went for coffee.’
Compare: Drawbridge
Drawbridge (n.) [Historical] 吊橋；開合橋 [C] A bridge, especially one over a castle's moat, which is hinged at one end so that it may be raised to prevent people crossing or to allow vessels to pass under it.
‘There was a rattle of chains as the drawbridge was lowered.’
Barbacan (n.) An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy. Barbicanage
Compare: Barbicanage
Barbicanage (n.) (Uncountable) (Obsolete) 用以維修、修建望樓、防禦工事的款項 Money paid for the support of a barbican.
Barbacan (n.) A tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle) [syn: barbican, barbacan].
Barbicanage (n.) Alt. of Barbacanage.
Barbacanage (n.) Money paid for the support of a barbican.
Barbicel (n.) One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers.
Barbiers (n.) A variety of paralysis, peculiar to India and the Malabar coast; -- considered by many to be the same as beriberi in chronic form.
Barbigerous (a.) Having a beard; bearded; hairy.
Barbiton (n.) An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.
Barbituric acid (n.) 巴比妥酸；一種白色無臭結晶體，難溶於冷水和乙醇，溶於熱水和乙醚。通常含有兩分子結晶水。在空氣中易風化。水溶液呈酸性。可以與金屬反應生成鹽類。
A white, crystalline substance, CH2(CO.NH)2.CO, derived from alloxantin, also from malonic acid and urea, and regarded as a substituted urea.
Barble (n.) See Barbel.
Barbotine (n.) A paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in relief.
Barbre (a.) Barbarian.
Barbule (n.) A very minute barb or beard.
Barbule (n.) One of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. See Feather.
Barcarolle (n.) A popular song or melody sung by Venetian gondoliers.
Barcarolle (n.) A piece of music composed in imitation of such a song.
Barcelona (n.) 巴塞隆納（西班牙東北港） A city in northeastern Spain on the Mediterranean; 2nd largest Spanish city and the largest port and commercial center; has been a center for radical political beliefs.
Barcon (n.) A vessel for freight; -- used in Mediterranean.
Bard (n.) A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
Bard (n.) Hence: A poet; as, the bard of Avon.
Bard (n.) [ C ] 詩人 [Literary] A poet.
The Bard 威廉‧莎士比亞 William Shakespeare.
Bard (n.) Alt. of Barde.
Barde (n.) 護馬鎧甲 [P1] A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [Often in the pl.].
Barde (n.) pl. Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.
Barde (n.) (Cookery) A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.
Bard (v. t.) (Cookery) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.
Bard (n.) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
Bard (n.) Specifically, Peruvian bark.
Bark bed. See Bark stove (below).
Bark pit, A pit filled with bark and water, in which hides are steeped in tanning.
Bark stove (Hort.), A glazed structure for keeping tropical plants, having a bed of tanner's bark (called a bark bed) or other fermentable matter which produces a moist heat.
Compare: Eelpout
Eelpout (n.) (Zo["o]l.) (a) A European fish ({Zoarces viviparus), remarkable for producing living young; -- called also greenbone, guffer, bard, and Maroona eel. Also, an American species ({Z. anguillaris), -- called also mutton fish, and, erroneously, congo eel, ling, and lamper eel.
Both are edible, but of little value.
Eelpout (n.) (Zo["o]l.) (b) A fresh-water fish, the burbot.
Bard (n.) A lyric poet.
Bard (n.) An ornamental caparison for a horse
Bard (v.) Put a caparison on; "caparison the horses for the festive occasion" [syn: caparison, bard, barde, dress up].
Barde (v.) 給（戰馬等）披鎧甲 Put a caparison on; "caparison the horses for the festive occasion" [syn: {caparison}, {bard}, {barde}, {dress up}].
Barded (p. a.) Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse.
Barded (p. a.) (Her.) Wearing rich caparisons.
Fifteen hundred men . . . barded and richly trapped. -- Stow.
Compare: Caparison
Caparison (n.) （裝飾用）馬衣；盛裝 An ornamental covering spread over a horse's saddle or harness.
Caparison (v. t.) (be caparisoned) (Of a horse) 給馬披掛裝飾；盛裝打扮 Be decked out in rich decorative coverings.
‘His horse was caparisoned with coloured ribbons.’
Bardic (a.) 克爾特族之遊唱詩人的；詩人的 Of or pertaining to bards, or their poetry.
Bardish (a.) Pertaining to, or written by, a bard or bards. "Bardish impostures." -- Selden.
Bardism (n.) The system of bards; the learning and maxims of bards.
Bardling (n.) An inferior bard.
Bardship (n.) The state of being a bard.
Bare (a.) 赤裸裸的，無遮蔽的；空的，無設備的；稀少的，僅有的，勉強的 Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
Bare (a.) With head uncovered; bareheaded.
When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. -- Herbert.
Bare (a.) Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
Bare in thy guilt, how foul must thou appear ! -- Milton.
Bare (a.) Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager. "Uttering bare truth." -- Shak.
Bare (a.) Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture. "A bare treasury." -- Dryden.
Bare (a.) Threadbare; much worn.
It appears by their bare liveries that they live by your bare words. -- Shak.
Bare (a.) Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority. "The bare necessaries of life." -- Addison.
Nor are men prevailed upon by bare words. -- South.
Under bare poles (Naut.), Having no sail set.
Bare (n.) Surface; body; substance. [R.]
You have touched the very bare of naked truth. -- Marston.
Bare (n.) (Arch.) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
Bared (imp. & p. p.) of Bare.
Baring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bare.
Bare (v. t.) 使赤裸；露出；揭露；透露 To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.
Bare () Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.
Bareback (adv.) 無鞍地 On the bare back of a horse, without using a saddle; as, to ride bareback.
Bareback (adv.) Without a saddle; "she prefers to ride her horse bareback" [syn: bareback, barebacked].
Bareback (a.) 無鞍的 Riding without a saddle; "a bareback rider" [syn: bareback, barebacked].
Barebacked (a.) 無鞍的 Having the back uncovered; as, a barebacked horse.
Barebone (n.) 極瘦的人 A very lean person; one whose bones show through the skin.
Barebone (n.) (Informal) A very thin person whose bones show through the skin.
Barebone (ph.) 準系統（品牌電腦、自行組裝電腦之間的中間產物，多以空機、白殼的半成品方式出貨，通常只有機殼、電源供應器、風扇、主機板、光碟機等配備，待消費者選購之後，再依需求安裝處理器、硬碟與記憶體）A computer casing containing the bare essentials.
Bare-breasted (a.) (Not comparable) (Chiefly of a woman) 袒胸露乳的 Having the breasts and nipples exposed, often implying a less salacious atmosphere than topless.
Compare: Salacious
Salacious (a.) 好色的；猥褻的；淫穢的；下流的 Having or conveying undue or inappropriate interest in sexual matters.
‘Salacious stories.’
Barefaced (a.) 拋頭露面的；厚顏無恥的 With the face uncovered; not masked. "You will play barefaced." -- Shak.
Barefaced (a.) Without concealment; undisguised. Hence: Shameless; audacious ; as, a barefaced lie. "Barefaced treason." -- J. Baillie.
Barefaced (a.) With no effort to conceal; "a barefaced lie" [syn: bald, barefaced].
Barefaced (a.) Unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell [syn: audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent].
Barefacedly (adv.) 拋頭露面；厚顏地 Openly; shamelessly. -- Locke.
Barefacedly (adv.) Without shame; "he unashamedly abandoned the project when he realized he would not gain from it" [syn: unashamedly, shamelessly, barefacedly] [ant: ashamedly].
Barefacedness (n.) The quality of being barefaced; shamelessness; assurance; audaciousness.
Barefoot (a. & adv.) (a.) 赤腳的，不穿鞋襪的；赤著腳地 With the feet bare; without shoes or stockings.
Barefoot (adv.) Without shoes on; "he chased her barefoot across the meadow" [syn: barefooted, barefoot].
Barefoot (a.) Without shoes; "the barefoot boy"; "shoeless Joe Jackson" [syn: barefoot, barefooted, shoeless].
Barefoot, () To go barefoot was a sign of great distress (Isa. 20:2, 3, 4), or of some great calamity having fallen on a person (2 Sam. 15:30).
Barefooted (a.) 赤腳的；(adv.) 赤著腳地Having the feet bare.
Barefooted (adv.) Without shoes on; "he chased her barefoot across the meadow" [syn: barefooted, barefoot].
Barefooted (a.) Without shoes; "the barefoot boy"; "shoeless Joe Jackson" [syn: barefoot, barefooted, shoeless].
Barege (n.) [紡] 巴雷格紗羅 (作面紗等用) A gauzelike fabric for ladies' dresses, veils, etc. of worsted, silk and worsted, or cotton and worsted.
Barehanded (n.) Having bare hands. Bareheaded
Barehanded (a.) With bare hands; "fought barehanded".
Bareheaded (a. & adv.) Alt. of Barehead.
Barehead (a. & adv.) Having the head uncovered; as, a bareheaded girl.
Bareheaded (a. & adv.) 光著頭的（地）﹐頭上不帶東西的（地） Without any covering on your head.
Barelegged (a.) Having the legs bare. bare-legged children on the beach.
Barelegged (a.) Having the legs uncovered by clothing; "barelegged children on the beach".
Barely (adv.) 僅僅，勉強；幾乎沒有；貧乏地；光禿禿地；公開地，露骨地 Without covering; nakedly.
Barely (adv.) Without concealment or disguise.
Barely (adv.) Merely; only.
R. For now his son is duke.
W. Barely in title, not in revenue. -- Shak.
Barely (adv.) But just; without any excess; with nothing to spare ( of quantity, time, etc.); hence, scarcely; hardly; as, there was barely enough for all; he barely escaped.
Barely (adv.) Only a very short time before; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave" -- W.B.Yeats [syn: barely, hardly, just, scarcely, scarce].
Barely (adv.) In a sparse or scanty way; "a barely furnished room" [syn: scantily, barely].
Barenecked (a.) Having the neck bare.
Bareness (n.) The state of being bare.
Baresark (n.) A Berserker, or Norse warrior who fought without armor, or shirt of mail. Hence, adverbially: Without shirt of mail or armor.
Barfish (n.) Same as Calico bass.
Barful (a.) Full of obstructions.
Bargain (n.) [C] 協議 [（+with）] [+that]；買賣，交易；特價商品，便宜貨 An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration.
A contract is a bargain that is legally binding. -- Wharton.
Bargain (n.) An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.
And whon your honors mean to solemnize The bargain of your faith. -- Shak.
Bargain (n.) A purchase; also ( when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain.
Bargain (n.) The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap.
She was too fond of her most filthy bargain. -- Shak.
{Bargain and sale} (Law), A species of conveyance, by which the bargainor contracts to convey the lands to the bargainee, and becomes by such contract a trustee for and seized to the use of the bargainee. The statute then completes the purchase; i. e., the bargain vests the use, and the statute vests the possession. --Blackstone.
{Into the bargain}, Over and above what is stipulated; besides.
{To sell bargains}, To make saucy (usually indelicate) repartees. [Obs.] -- Swift.
{To strike a bargain}, To reach or ratify an agreement. "A bargain was struck." -- Macaulay.
Syn: Contract; stipulation; purchase; engagement.
Bargain (v. i.) 討價還價 [（+with/ over/ about）]；達成協議；（常與否定詞連用）預料，指望 [（+for/ on）] To make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow.
So worthless peasants bargain for their wives. -- Shak.
Bargain (n.) An agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each; "he made a bargain with the devil"; "he rose to prominence through a series of shady deals" [syn: {bargain}, {deal}].
Bargain (n.) An advantageous purchase; "she got a bargain at the auction"; "the stock was a real buy at that price" [syn: {bargain}, {buy}, {steal}].
Bargain (v.) Negotiate the terms of an exchange; "We bargained for a beautiful rug in the bazaar" [syn: {dicker}, {bargain}].
Bargain (v.) Come to terms; arrive at an agreement.
Bargain (n.) [ C ] [ C ] (Low price) (B1) 便宜貨，廉價品 Something on sale at a lower price than its true value.
// This coat was half-price - a real bargain.
// The airline regularly offers last-minute bookings at bargain prices.
// The sales had started and the bargain hunters (= People looking for things at a low price) were out in force.
Bargain (n.) [ C ] (Agreement) 協議；交易 An agreement between two people or groups in which each promises to do something in exchange for something else.
// "I'll clean the kitchen if you clean the car." "OK, it's a bargain."
// The management and employees eventually struck/made a bargain (= reached an agreement).
Idioms:
Into the bargain (US Also In the bargain) (C2) 此外，而且 In addition to other facts previously mentioned.
// He's intelligent, funny, a loving husband, and an excellent cook into the bargain.
Bargain (v.) [ I or T ] 討價還價（如價格、工資或工作條件等） To try to make someone agree to give you something that is better for you, such as a better price or better working conditions.
// Unions bargain with employers for better rates of pay each year.
Phrasal verb:
Bargain sth away (-- Phrasal verb with bargain) (v.) [ I or T ] 以高價值物品交換低價值物品 To exchange something good for something of less value.
// I realized that by trying to gain security I had bargained away my freedom.
Phrasal verb:
Bargain for/ on sth (-- Phrasal verb with bargain) (v.) [ I or T ] 期待；預計到；準備好 To expect or be prepared for something.
// We hadn't bargained on such a long wait.
// The strength of opposition to the project was more than she'd bargained for.
Bargained (imp. & p. p.) of Bargain.
Bargaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bargain.
Bargain (v. t.) To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another.
{To bargain away}, To dispose of in a bargain; -- usually with a sense of loss or disadvantage; as, to bargain away one's birthright. "The heir . . . had somehow bargained away the estate." -- G. Eliot.
Bargainee (v. i.) The party to a contract who receives, or agrees to receive, the property sold.
Bargainer (n.) One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor.
Bargainor (n.) One who makes a bargain, or contracts with another; esp., one who sells, or contracts to sell, property to another.
Barge (n.) [C] 駁船，大型平底船；（儀式用的）大型遊艇 A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.
Barge (n.) A large, roomy boat for the conveyance of passengers or goods; as, a ship's barge; a charcoal barge.
Barge (n.) A large boat used by flag officers.
Barge (n.) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat. [U. S.]
Barge (n.) A large omnibus used for excursions. [Local. U. S.]
Barge (n.) A flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (Especially on canals) [syn: {barge}, {flatboat}, {hoy}, {lighter}].
Barge (v.) (v. i.) 笨重緩慢地移動 [（+about/ around）]；（魯莽而笨拙地）猛撞；衝，闖 [Q] (v. t.) 用駁船運載；（魯莽而笨拙地）闖出 [O] Push one's way; "she barged into the meeting room" [syn: {barge}, {thrust ahead}, {push forward}].
Barge (v.) Transport by barge on a body of water.
Bargeboard (n.) A vergeboard.
Bargecourse (n.) (Arch.) A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable. -- Gwilt.
Bargee (n.) 【英】駁船船夫；經營駁船業的人 A bargeman. [Eng.]
Bargee (n.) Someone who operates a barge [syn: {lighterman}, {bargeman}, {bargee}].
Bargeman (n.) The man who manages a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.
Bargemastter (n.) The proprietor or manager of a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.
Barger (n.) The manager of a barge.
Barghest (n.) A goblin, in the shape of a large dog, portending misfortune.
Baria (n.) Baryta.
Baric (a.) (Chem.) 【化】含鋇的；【物】氣壓的 Of or pertaining to barium; as, baric oxide.
Baric (a.) Of or pertaining to weight, esp. to the weight or pressure of the atmosphere as measured by the barometer.
Baric (a.) Of or relating to or containing barium.
Barilla (n.) (Bot.) 【植】岡羊栖菜；海草灰；蘇打灰 A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes.
Barilla (n.) (Com.) The alkali produced from the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching purposes.
Barilla (n.) (Com.) Impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant, or kelp. -- Ure.
{Copper barilla} (Min.), native copper in granular form mixed with sand, an ore brought from Bolivia; -- called also {Barilla de cobre}.
Barilla (n.) Bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash [syn: {saltwort}, {barilla}, {glasswort}, {kali}, {kelpwort}, {Salsola kali}, {Salsola soda}].
Barilla (n.) Algerian plant formerly burned to obtain calcium carbonate [syn: {barilla}, {Halogeton souda}].
Barillet (n.) A little cask, or something resembling one.
Bar iron () See under Iron.
Barista (n.) A person who works at the counter of a coffee shop; a coffee bar server. He plans to become a barista at Starbucks. 1982; Ital, pl. Baristi.
Barite (n.) Native sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (Generally tabular), also in granular form, and in compact massive forms resembling marble. It has a high specific gravity, and hence is often called heavy spar. It is a common mineral in metallic veins.
Baritone (a. & n.) See Barytone.