Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 13
Barium (n.) 【化】鋇 One of the elements, belonging to the alkaline earth group; a metal having a silver-white color, and melting at a very high temperature. It is difficult to obtain the pure metal, from the facility with which it becomes oxidized in the air. Atomic weight, 137. Symbol, Ba. Its oxide called baryta. [Rarely written barytum.]
Note: Some of the compounds of this element are remarkable for their high specific gravity, as the sulphate, called heavy spar, and the like. The oxide was called barote, by Guyton de Morveau, which name was changed by Lavoisier to baryta, whence the name of the metal.
Compare: Alkaline
Alkaline (a.)【化】 鹼的；含鹼的；鹼性的 Having the properties of an alkali, or containing alkali; having a pH greater than 7.
‘An alkaline soil.’
Often contrasted with acidic and basic.
‘A slightly alkaline solution.’
Barium (n.) A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite [syn: barium, Ba, atomic number 56].
Bard (n.) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
Bard (n.) Specifically, Peruvian bark.
Barked (imp. & p. p.) of Bark.
Barking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bark.
Bark (v. t.) 厲聲說出 [（+out）]；高聲叫賣 To strip the bark from; to peel.
Bark (v. t.) To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark one's heel.
Bark (v. t.) To girdle. See Girdle, v. t., 3.
Bark (v. t.) To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark; as, to bark the roof of a hut.
Bark (v. i.) （狗，狐等）吠叫 [（+at）]；發出吠叫似的聲音；厲聲說話；咆哮 To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; -- said of some animals, but especially of dogs.
Bark (v. i.) To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
They bark, and say the Scripture maketh heretics. -- Tyndale.
Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed. -- Fuller.
Bark (n.) 犬吠聲；槍聲；咳嗽聲 The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog; a similar sound made by some other animals.
Bark (n.) Alt. of Barque.
Barque (n.) 三桅帆船；【詩】船 Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind. -- Byron.
Barque (n.) (Natu.) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
Barque (n.) Same as 3d Bark, n.
Barque (n.) A sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts [syn: bark, barque].
Bark (n.) [U] 樹皮 Tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
Bark (n.) A noise resembling the bark of a dog.
Bark (n.) A sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts [syn: bark, barque].
Bark (n.) The sound made by a dog.
Bark (v.) Speak in an unfriendly tone; "She barked into the dictaphone."
Bark (v.) Cover with bark.
Bark (v.) Remove the bark of a tree [syn: bark, skin].
Bark (v.) Make barking sounds; "The dogs barked at the stranger."
Bark (v.) Tan (a skin) with bark tannins.
Barkantine (n.) Same as Barkentine.
Barkentine (n.) [See Bark, n., a vessel.] (Naut.) [前桅橫帆] 三桅船 A threemasted vessel, having the foremast square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc.] See Illust. in Append.
Bark beetle () A small beetle of many species (family Scolytidae), which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees, often doing great damage.
Barkbound (a.) Prevented from growing, by having the bark too firm or close.
Barkeeper (n.) One who keeps or tends a bar for the sale of liquors.
Barken (a.) Made of bark.
Barkentine (n.) A threemasted vessel, having the foremast square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc.] See Illust. in Append.
Barker (n.) An animal that barks; hence, any one who clamors unreasonably.
Barker (n.) One who stands at the doors of shops to urg/ passers by to make purchases.
Barker (n.) A pistol.
Barker (n.) The spotted redshank.
Barker (n.) One who strips trees of their bark.
Barker's mill () A machine, invented in the 17th century, worked by a form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from apertures in hollow horizontal arms, causing the machine to revolve on its axis.
Barkery (n.) A tanhouse.
Barking irons () Instruments used in taking off the bark of trees.
Barking irons () A pair of pistols.
Barkless (a.) Destitute of bark.
Bark louse () An insect of the family Coccidae, which infests the bark of trees and vines.
Barky (a.) Covered with, or containing, bark.
Barley (n.) A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky.
Barleybrake (n.) Alt. of Barleybreak.
Barleybreak (n.) An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley, or other grain, in which some of the party attempt to catch others who run from a goal.
Barley-bree (n.) Liquor made from barley; strong ale. [Humorous] [Scot.] -- Burns.
Barleycorn (n.) A grain or "corn" of barley.
Barleycorn (n.) Formerly , a measure of length, equal to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch.
John Barleycorn, a humorous personification of barley as the source of malt liquor or whisky.
Barleycorn (n.) A grain of barley.
Barleycorn (n.) A grain of barley [syn: barley, barleycorn].
Barleycorn. () A lineal measure, containing one-third of an inch. Dane's Ab. c. 211, a. 13, s. 9. The barleycorn was the first measure, with its division and multiples, of all our measures of length, superfices, and capacity. Id. c. 211, a. 1 2, s. 2.
Barm (n.) Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast. -- Shak.
Barm (n.) The lap or bosom. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Barm (n.) A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey [syn: yeast, barm].
Barmaid (n.) A girl or woman who attends the customers of a bar, as in a tavern or beershop.
A bouncing barmaid. -- W. Irving.
Barmaid (n.) A female bartender.
Barmaster (n.) Formerly, a local judge among miners; now, an officer of the barmote. [Eng.]
Burghmaster (n.) A burgomaster.
Burghmaster (n.) (Mining) An officer who directs and lays out the meres or boundaries for the workmen; -- called also bailiff, and barmaster. [Eng.]
Barmcloth (n.) Apron.
Barmecidal (a.) Unreal; illusory.
Barmecide (n.) One who proffers some illusory advantage or benefit. Also used as an adj.: Barmecidal.
Barmote (n.) A court held in Derbyshire, in England, for deciding controversies between miners.
Balmy (a.) Full of barm or froth; in a ferment.
Barn (n.) [C] 穀倉，糧倉；馬房，牛舍；【美】大車庫，大車棚 A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables.
Barn owl (Zool.), An owl of Europe and America ({Aluco flammeus, or Strix flammea), which frequents barns and other buildings.
Barn swallow (Zool.), The common American swallow ({Hirundo horreorum), which attaches its nest of mud to the beams and rafters of barns.
Barn (v. t.) To lay up in a barn. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Men . . . often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain. -- Fuller.
Barn (n.) A child. [Obs.] See Bairn. [Obs.]
Barn (n.) An outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
Barn (n.) (physics) A unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter [syn: barn, b].
Barn (n.) [uncommon; prob. from the nuclear military] An unexpectedly large quantity of something: a unit of measurement. ?Why is /var/adm taking up so much space?? ?The logs have grown to several barns.? The source of this is clear: when physicists were first studying nuclear interactions, the probability was thought to be proportional to the cross-sectional area of the nucleus (this probability is still called the cross-section). Upon experimenting, they discovered the interactions were far more probable than expected; the nuclei were ?as big as a barn?. The units for cross-sections were christened Barns, (10^-24 cm^2) and the book containing cross-sections has a picture of a barn on the cover.
Barn (n.) A storehouse (Deut. 28:8; Job 39:12; Hag. 2:19) for grain, which was usually under ground, although also sometimes above ground (Luke 12:18).
Barn (n.) Estates. A building on a farm used to receive the crop, the stabling of animals, and other purposes.
Barn (n.) The grant or demise of a barn, without words superadded to extend its meaning, would pass no more than the barn itself, and as much land as would be necessary for its complete enjoyment. 4 Serg. & Rawle, 342.
Barnabite (n.) A member of a religious order, named from St. Barnabas.
Barnacle (n.) Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle.
Barnacle (n.) A bernicle goose.
Barnacle (n.) An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him.
Barnacle (sing.) Spectacles; -- so called from their resemblance to the barnacles used by farriers.
Barnyard (n.) A yard belonging to a barn.
Barocco (a.) See Baroque.
Barograph (n.) An instrument for recording automatically the variations of atmospheric pressure.
Baroko (n.) A form or mode of syllogism of which the first proposition is a universal affirmative, and the other two are particular negative.
Barology (n.) The science of weight or gravity.
Baromacrometer (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the weight and length of a newborn infant.
Barometer (n.) [C] 氣壓計；晴雨表；【喻】晴雨表，顯示變化的事物 An instrument for determining the weight or pressure of the atmosphere, and hence for judging of the probable changes of weather, or for ascertaining the height of any ascent.
Note: The barometer was invented by Torricelli at Florence about 1643. It is made in its simplest form by filling a graduated glass tube about 34 inches long with mercury and inverting it in a cup containing mercury. The column of mercury in the tube descends until balanced by the weight of the atmosphere, and its rise or fall under varying conditions is a measure of the change in the atmospheric pressure. At the sea level its ordinary height is about 30 inches (760 millimeters). See Sympiesometer. -- Nichol.
Aneroid barometer. See Aneroid barometer, under Aneroid.
Marine barometer, A barometer with tube contracted at bottom to prevent rapid oscillations of the mercury, and suspended in gimbals from an arm or support on shipboard.
Mountain barometer, A portable mercurial barometer with tripod support, and long scale, for measuring heights.
Siphon barometer, A barometer having a tube bent like a hook with the longer leg closed at the top. The height of the mercury in the longer leg shows the pressure of the atmosphere.
Wheel barometer, A barometer with recurved tube, and a float, from which a cord passes over a pulley and moves an index. Barometric
Barometer (n.) An instrument that measures atmospheric pressure.
Barometric (a.) Alt. of Barometrical.
Barometrical (a.) Pertaining to the barometer; made or indicated by a barometer; as, barometric changes; barometrical observations.
Barometrically (adv.) By means of a barometer, or according to barometric observations.
Barometrograph (n.) A form of barometer so constructed as to inscribe of itself upon paper a record of the variations of atmospheric pressure.
Barometry (n.) 氣壓測定法 The art or process of making barometrical measurements.
Barometz (n.) The woolly-skinned rhizoma or rootstock of a fern (Dicksonia barometz), which, when specially prepared and inverted, somewhat resembles a lamb; -- called also Scythian lamb.
Barometz (n.) (Plants) A type of Asian fern, Cibotium barometz, the woolly rhizoma of which is thought to resemble a lamb. Also called: Scythian Lamb.
Baron (n.) [C] 男爵（英國爵位最低的貴族）；男爵（歐陸國家、日本貴族等級制度中最低的一級）；中古英國因功封得采邑的貴族或其後代；（英國）上院議員；巨擘；大亨；連帶兩側腰肉的牛肉方；肋脊羊肉方 A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount.
Baron (n.) A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife.
Baronage (n.) 男爵的總稱；貴族的總稱；有爵位的名冊；男爵輩，男爵勛位，貴族 The whole body of barons or peers.
Baronage (n.) The dignity or rank of a baron.
Baronage (n.) The land which gives title to a baron.
Baroness (n.) 男爵夫人，女性男爵 A baron's wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title in her own right; as, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
Baronet (n.) 准男爵，從男爵 A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners.
Baronet (n.) 從男爵（baronet，又譯準男爵，傳統簡寫是Bart，現代簡寫是Bt），以及相當於男性的女從男爵（baronetess，簡寫是Btss.） A baronet (abbreviated Bart or Bt [1]) or the rare female equivalent, a baronetess (abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, a hereditary title awarded by the British Crown. The practice of awarding baronetcies was originally introduced in England in the 14th century and was used by James I of England in 1611 as a means of raising funds.
A baronetcy is the only British hereditary honour that is not a peerage, with the exception of the Anglo-Irish Black Knight, White Knight and Green Knight (of which only the Green Knight is extant). A baronet is addressed as "Sir" (just as is a knight) or "Dame" in the case of a baronetess but ranks above all knighthoods and damehoods in the order of precedence, except for the Order of the Garter and the Order of the Thistle (and the dormant Order of St Patrick).
Comparisons with continental titles and ranks are tenuous due to the British system of primogeniture and the fact that claims to baronetcies must be proven; currently the Official Roll of the Baronetage is overseen by the Ministry of Justice (United Kingdom). In practice this means that the UK Peerage and Baronetage consists of about 2000 families (some Peers are also Baronets), which is roughly 0.01% of UK families. In some continental countries the "nobility" consisted of about 5% of the population, and in most countries titles are no longer recognised or regulated by the state.
Baronetage (n.) 從男爵爵位 State or rank of a baronet.
Baronetage (n.) The collective body of baronets.
Baronetage (n.) The state of a baronet.
Baronetcy (n.) 從男爵爵位 The rank or patent of a baronet.
Baronetcy (n.) The rank or dignity or position of a baronet or baroness [syn: {baronetcy}, {barony}].
Baronetcy (n.) The title of a baron.
Baronial (a.) 男爵的，適于男爵的，宏大的 Pertaining to a baron or a barony.
Baronies (n. pl. ) of Barony.
Barony (n.) 男爵的領地；財閥；郡 The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron.
Barony (n.) In Ireland, a territorial division, corresponding nearly to the English hundred, and supposed to have been originally the district of a native chief. There are 252 of these baronies. In Scotland, an extensive freehold. It may be held by a commoner.
Baroque, (a.) (Arch.) 巴洛克式的；過分裝飾的；奇形怪狀的 Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, an artistic style common in the 17th century, characterized by the use of complex and elaborate ornamentation, curved rather than straight lines, and, in music a high degree of embellishment.
Baroque, (a.) Hence, overly complicated, or ornamented to excess; in bad taste; grotesque; odd.
Baroque, (a.) Irregular in form; -- said esp. of a pearl.
Baroque (a.) Having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation; "the building...frantically baroque"-William Dean Howells [syn: baroque, churrigueresque, churrigueresco].
Baroque (a.) Of or relating to or characteristic of the elaborately ornamented style of architecture, art, and music popular in Europe between 1600 and 1750 [syn: baroque, Baroque].
Baroque (n.) 巴洛克風格；（建築、醫術、音樂、文學等的）巴洛克作品 The historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe [syn: Baroque, Baroque era, Baroque period].
Baroque (n.) Elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century [syn: baroque, baroqueness].
Baroque (a.) 巴羅克式的 Relating to the heavily decorated style in buildings, art, and music that was popular in Europe in the 17th century and the early part of the 18th century.
// Baroque architecture/ painters
Baroscope (n.) 氣壓計；空氣浮力計 Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.
Baroscope (n.) An instrument showing roughly the variations in atmospheric pressure.
Baroscopic (a.) Alt. of Baroscopical.
Baroscopical (a.) Pertaining to, or determined by, the baroscope.
Barouche (n.) A four-wheeled carriage, with a falling top, a seat on the outside for the driver, and two double seats on the inside arranged so that the sitters on the front seat face those on the back seat.
Barouchet (n.) A kind of light barouche.
Compare: Barouche
Barouche (n.) [Historical] 四輪四座大馬車 A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with a collapsible hood over the rear half, a seat in front for the driver, and seats facing each other for the passengers.
Compare: Collapsible
Collapsible (a.) (Of an object) 可摺疊的；可拆卸的 Able to be folded into a small space.
‘A collapsible bed.’
Barpost (n.) A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field.
Compare: Sunk
Sunk (a.) 凹陷的，下陷的；情緒低落的；【口】完蛋了的，無法挽救的 [Z] Doomed to extinction [syn: done for(p), ruined, sunk, undone, washed-up].
Barque (n.) Same as 3d Bark, n.
Barracan (n.) 巴拉坎風雨大衣呢（地中海東部沿海地區製） A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant.
Barrack (n.) 兵舍，軍營 A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
Barrack (n.) A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.
Barrack (v. t.) 使駐兵營內 To supply with barracks; to establish in barracks; as, to barrack troops.
Barrack (v. i.) 住入營房（或棚屋） To live or lodge in barracks.
Barraclade (n.) A home-made woolen blanket without nap.
Barracoon (n.) A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily.
Barracuda (n.) Alt. of Barracouta.
Barracouta (n.) (Zool.) 梭魚類 Any of several voracious pikelike marine fishes allied to the gray mullets, constituting the genus Sphyr[ae]na and family Sphyr[ae]nid[ae]. The great barracuda ({Sphyr[ae]na barracuda) of the West Indies, Florida, etc., is often six feet or more long, and as dangerous as a shark. In Cuba its flesh is reputed to be poisonous. Sphyr[ae]na Argentea of the Pacific coast and Sphyr[ae]na sphyr[ae]na of Europe are smaller species, and are used as food.
Note: That of Europe and our Atlantic coast is Sphyr[ae]na spet (or Sphyr[ae]na vulgaris); a southern species is Sphyr[ae]na picuda; the Californian is Sphyr[ae]na argentea.