BPage 65
- English Word Baroscope Definition 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.
- English Word Baroscopic Definition Alt. of Baroscopical
- English Word Baroscopical Definition Pertaining to, or determined by, the baroscope.
- English Word Barouche Definition 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.
- English Word Barouchet Definition A kind of light barouche.
- English Word Barpost Definition A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field.
- English Word Barque Definition 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.
- English Word Barque Definition A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
- English Word Barque Definition Same as 3d Bark, n.
- English Word Barracan Definition A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant.
- English Word Barrack Definition 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.
- English Word Barrack Definition A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.
- English Word Barrack Definition To supply with barracks; to establish in barracks; as, to barrack troops.
- English Word Barrack Definition To live or lodge in barracks.
- English Word Barraclade Definition A home-made woolen blanket without nap.
- English Word Barracoon Definition A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily.
- English Word Barracouata Definition A voracious pikelike, marine fish, of the genus Sphyraena, sometimes used as food.
- English Word Barracouata Definition A large edible fresh-water fish of Australia and New Zealand (Thyrsites atun).
- English Word Barracuda Definition Alt. of Barracouata
- English Word Barrage Definition An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile.