baptistic 
fist.'] Pertaining to baptism, or (with a capital) 
to the doctrine of the Baptists. 
This baptistwal profession, which he ignorantly laugheth 
at, is attested by fathers, by councils, by liturgies. 
Abp. Bramhall, Schism Uuarded, p. 205. 
Baptistically (bap-tis'ti-kal-i), adr. Accord- 
ing to Baptist doctrine ; in the manner of the 
Baptists. 
baptizable (bap-ti'za-bl), , [< baptue H 
-6(e.] That may be baptized. [Rare.] 
As for the condition limiting persons hiptizable, which 
is actual believing, this also the Church of Christ under- 
stood in a limited and temporary sense. 
Up. Ga uden, Tears of the Church, p. 284. 
baptizationt (bap-ti-za'shon), n. [< LL. bapti- 
-titio(n-), < baptizare, baptize: see baptize.'] The 
act of baptizing ; baptism. [Rare.] 
If they had been lay persons, their baptizations were 
null and invalid. Jrr. Taijlor, Clerus Domini, iv. 
baptize (bap-tiz'), r. t. ; pret. and pp. baptized, 
ppr. baptizing. [< ME. baplizcn, < LL. bap- 
tizare, < Gr. ftatm^eai, dip in or under water, 
baptize, < fiairreiv, dip in water. See etym. of 
baptism. ] 1. To administer the rite of bap- 
tism to. See baptism. 
None [in Yucatan] might marry who had not been bap- 
tised. Faiths of the World, p. 24S. 
2. To christen ; name ; denominate : with al- 
lusion to the naming of infants at baptism. 
Call me but love, and I'll be new baptiz'd ; 
Henceforth I never will be Romeo. 
Shak., R. and J., ii. 2. 
Sometimes spelled baptise. 
baptizement (bap-tiz'ment), n. [< baptize + 
-ment."] The act of baptizing ; baptism. [Rare.] 
baptizer (bap-ti'zer), n. One who baptizes. 
On the part of the baptizer, baptism was a form of re- 
ception to instruction. Rees, Cyc., Baptism. 
baquet (ba-ka'), n. [F. : see backet.] A small 
tub or trough. 
bar 1 (bar), n. [< ME. barr, barre, < OF. barre, 
F. barre = Pr. Sp. Pg. It. barra, < ML. barra, 
of unknown origin. The Celtic words, Bret. 
barren, a bar, a branch, W. bar, a bar, rail, 
Gael, and Ir. barra, a bar, spike, Corn, bara (v.), 
bar, as well as MHG. bar, barre, a barrier, G. 
barre, Dan. barre, a bar, ingot, Russ. barii, bar 
(of a harbor), are from the ML., Rom., or E. 
Hence barrier, barrister, barricade, barrace, em- 
bar, embarrass, debar, debarrass, etc.] 1. A 
piece of wood, metal, or other solid matter, 
long in proportion to its thickness, used for 
some mechanical purpose ; a rod : as, a cap- 
stan-fear; the bars of a grate; the splinter-Jar 
of a vehicle ; especially, such a piece of wood 
or metal used as an obstruction or guard : as, 
the bars of a fence or gate ; the bar of a door 
or window. 2. Anything which obstructs, 
hinders, or impedes ; an obstruction ; an ob- 
stacle ; a barrier. 
Must I new bars to my own joy create? Dryden. 
The incapacity to breed under confinement is one of the 
commonest bars to domestication. 
Damtrin, Var. of Animals and Plants, I. 21. 
3. A barrier (a) At the entrance to a city, or 
between the city proper and its suburbs ; hence, 
the gate at which the barrier was placed in 
former times, as Temple Bar in London, now 
446 
mouth of a river or harhin-. obstructing entrance or ren- 
dering it difficult. 
He rose at dawn, and, tired with hope, 
Shot o'er the seething harbour bar. 
Tennyson, The Sailor Boy. 
(Ii) A narrow point of land jutting out into the water. (<) 
In place r-mfninff, an accumulation of sand or gravel in or 
near the bed of a stream. 
5. In law : (a) The railing inclosing the place 
which counsel occupy in courts of justice. 
[Hence the phrase at the bar of the court signi- 
fies in open court.] 
Some at the bar with subtlety defend, 
Or on the bench the knotty laws untie. Dryden. 
(b) The place in court where prisoners are sta- 
tioned for arraignment, trial, or sentence. 
The great duke 
Came to the bar; where to his accusations 
He pleaded still, not guilty. Shah., Hen. VIII., U. 1. 
(c) The practising members of the legal pro- 
fession in a given community; all those who 
have the right to plead in a court ; counsel or 
barristers in general, or those present in court. 
It is the bench, the magistracy, the tor the profession 
as a profession ... a class, a body, of which I mean 
exclusively to speak. S. Choate, Addresses, p. 137. 
The storm of invective which burst upon him from ba-r, 
bench, and witness-box. Macmtlay, Hist. Eng., iv. 
(d) A stoppage or defeat in an action or suit 
by countervailing the alleged right of action. 
6. In England, a railing or barrier which sep- 
arates a space near the door from the body 
of either house of Parliament, beyond which 
none but members and clerks are admitted. At 
these bars counsel stand when pleading before the house, 
and to the same bar witnesses and such as have been 
ordered into custody for breaches of privilege are brought. 
In the houses of Congress, the bar, for the latter purpose, 
is the area in front of the presiding officer. 
7. Figuratively, any tribunal: as, the bar of 
public opinion ; the bar of God. 8. That por- 
tion of a tavern, inn, coffee-house, or the like, 
where liquors, etc., are set out; the counter 
over which articles are served in such an es- 
tablishment. 
I was under some apprehension that they would appeal 
to me ; and therefore laid down my penny at the bar, . . . 
and made the best of my way to Cheapside. 
Addwon, Spectator, No. 40:i. 
9. A band or stripe : as, a bar of light. 
The long, slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the 
sea of crimson light. Emerson, Nature. 
10. In farriery, the upper part of the gums of 
a horse between the grinders and tusks, which 
bears no teeth, and to which the bit is fitted. 
11. In music, a line drawn perpendicularly 
across the staff, dividing it into equal measures 
of time and marking the place of the strong 
Temple Bar, London. Founded 1670, demolished 1878. 
removed, and the existing medieval bars of 
York. (6) At a toll-house ; a toll-gate. Also 
called toll-bar. 4. An accumulation forming 
a bank obstructive to navigation or to the flow 
Of water, (a) A bank of sand, gravel, or earth forming 
a shoal in any body of water ; a bank ur shoal at the 
accent; hence, the space and notes included 
between two such lines ; the portion of music 
represented by the included notes. See also 
double bar, below. 
Whistling a random bar of Bonny Doon. 
Tennyson, The Brook. 
12. In com. : (a) An ingot, a lump, or a wedge, 
as of gold or silver, from the mines, run in a 
mold, and unwrought. (6) A short piece of 
bar-iron about half a pound in weight, used as 
a medium of traffic with African negroes. 13. 
In printing : (a) The lever by which the pres- 
sure is applied in a hand-press, (b) The middle 
cross-piece of a printers' chase. 14. In her., 
a horizontal stripe crossing the field, narrow- 
er than the f esse, and occupying 
usually one fifth or less of the 
field: one of the nine ordinaries. 
It is rare that one bar only is used ; 
bars may be borne in any number, and 
the blazon always names the number ; 
but when more than four, as they are 
smaller, they are called bamtlets. See 
6arry2 and barunse. 
15. In a bridle, the mouthpiece 
connecting the checks. 16. In a rifle-sight, a 
plate in the form of a segment, with its upper 
or chord edge horizontal, and secured in a ring. 
If the plate has a vertical slot in it, it is called a slit bar- 
night ; if it has an annnlus or smaller ring attached to it, it 
is a bar-sight or open bead-sight. 
17. In saddlery, one of the side pieces connect- 
ing the pommel and cantle of a saddle Ac- 
cented parts of a bar. See accent, v. (. Bar of 
ground, a term used in Cornwall, England, and else- 
where to designate a stratum or mass of rock coming 
near to or crossing the lode, and of a different character 
from that adjacent to it. Bar sinister, a phrase erro- 
neously used for bend sinister. See beads. 
baraket 
Thackeray falls into the common error of describing "a 
bar-xinMer " as a mark of bastardy. A bar in heraldry, be- 
ing horizontal, cannot be dexter or sinister ; a bend may 
be either. N. and Q., 7th ser., III. 40. 
Bar super, in apicultvrp, a case or crate in which the 
honeycomb is hutiK from bars, instead of being built in sec- 
tions or boxes. Phin, Diet. Apiculture, p. 70. Bastard 
bar. Same as batton, 1 (r). Blank bar, in law, a plea 
in bar which in an action of trespass is put in to compel 
the plaintiff to assign the certain place where the trespass 
was committed ; a common bar. It is most used by the 
practisers in the Common Bench, for in the King's Bench 
the place is commonly ascertained in the declaration. 
Mount. Branchial bar. See branchial. Double bar, 
in music, two bars placed together at the conclusion of a 
movement or strain. If two or four dots are added to it, 
the strain on that side should be repeated. Equalizing- 
bar, (a) In a car-truck, a wrought-iron beam which bears 
upon the top of the journal-boxes on the same side of the 
track. The springs which sustain the weight of the body 
of the car upon that side rest upon the center of this bar, 
which distributes the weight upon the two journals. (6) 
In a vehicle, a bar to each end of which a whippletree is 
attached. It is pivoted at the middle, and is used to 
equalize the draft of two horses harnessed abreast. Also 
called emner and doubletree. Father of the bar. See 
.father. Horizontal bar, a round bar placed horizontal- 
ly at some distance above the ground, on which athletes 
exercise. Landing-bar, in lace-making, a shuttle-box; 
a receptacle for the shuttle at the end of each cast. 
Loosening-bar, in mnlilinn, a pointed steel wire which is 
driven into the pattern and struck lightly with a hammer 
to loosen it from its mold, so that it can be withdrawn. 
Parallel bars, a pair of bars raised about 4 to 6 feet 
above the ground and placed about a foot and a half apart, 
used in gymnastics to develop the muscles of the arms, 
chest, etc. Plea in bar. in law, a plea of matter of such 
a nature that if sustained it would defeat not merely the 
present action, but any other for the same cause. See 
abatement. Splinter-bar, in cuach-biiildiny, the bar of 
a carriage to which the traces are attached. To call 
to the bar. See call. Trial at bar, a trial in one of 
the superior courts before all the judges of the court in 
which the action is brought, or a quorum sufficient to 
make a full court. = Syn. 2 and 3. Barricade, etc. See 
barrier. 
bar 1 (bar), v. t. ; pret. and pp. barred, ppr. 
barring. [< ME. barren, < OF. barrer = Pr. 
Sp. Pg. barrar, < ML. barrare, bar; from the 
noun.] 1. To fasten with a bar, or as with a 
bar. 
Every door is barr'd with gold, and opens but to golden keys. 
Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 
Now to all hope her heart is barred and cold. 
Longfellow, Blind Girl of Castel-Cuille, ii. 
2. To hinder ; obstruct ; prevent ; prohibit ; 
restrain. 
If you cannot 
Bar his access to the king, never attempt 
Anything on him. fihak., Hen. VIII., iii. 2. 
The houses of the country were all scattered, and yet 
not so far olf as that it barred mutual succour. 
Sir P. Sidney. 
Though the law of arms doth bar 
The use of venom'd shot in war. 
S. Butler, Hudibras. 
3. To except ; exclude by exception. 
Nay, but I bar to-night ; you shall not gage me 
By what we do to-night. Shak., M. of V., ii. 2. 
4. To provide with a bar or bars ; mark with 
bars ; cross with one or more stripes or linesi 
A Ceynt she wered, barred al of silke. 
Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 49. 
He bars his surfaces with horizontal lines of colour, the 
expression of the level of the Desert. Ruskin. 
5. To make into bars. [Rare.] To bar a vein, 
in farriery, to open the skin above a vein in a horse's leg, 
disengaging it, tying it both above and below, and strik- 
ing between the two ligatures : an operation intended 
to stop malignant humors. Johnson. To bar dower. 
See dowerV. To bar an entail. See entail. 
bar 1 (bar), prep. [Prop. impv. of fear 1 , tf.,3; cf. 
barring.] Except; omitting; but: as, to offer 
to bet two to one against any horse bar one. 
bar 2 rbar), n. [< F. bar, "the fish called a 
base" (Cotgrave): see&ose 5 .] An acanthopte- 
rygian European fish, Scicena aqmla. Also 
called maigre. 
bar 3 , a. An obsolete (Middle English) or dia- 
lectal form of bare 1 . 
bar 4 !. A Middle English preterit of bear 1 . 
bar 5 (bar), n. A dialectal form of bear*. [U.S.] 
bart, n. A Middle English form of baron. 
baracan, . See barracan. 
baraesthesiometer, . See baresthesio meter. 
baragouin (ba-ra-gwan' or -gwin'), n. [P., 
said to be < Bret, bara, bread, + gwin, wine, or 
gwemi, white, "in reference to the astonish- 
ment of Breton soldiers at the sight of white 
bread"; but this reads like a popular etymol- 
ogy, with the usual fictitious anecdote append- 
ed. The word may be merely imitative.] Un- 
intelligible jargon; language so altered in sound 
or sense as not to be generally understood. 
baraket (bar'a-ket), n. [Heb.] In Jewish 
an tig., the third jewel in the first row in the 
breastplate of the high priest : it is thought to 
be the garnet. 
