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barkometer (bar-kom'e-ter), M. [Irreg. < baric' 2 barley-bree, barley-broo (biir'li-bre, -bro), . barm-clptht, AD apron. Chaucer. 
+ -o-meter, < Gr. fierpov, a measure.] A hy- Liquor made from malt, whether by brewing Barmecidal (bar'me-sl-dal), a. Same as Bnr- 
ilrometer used by tanners in ascertaining the or distillation ; ale or whisky. [Scotch.] mcciilc. 
barley-broth 0>ar'li-br6th), H. 1. Broth made Barmecide, Barmacide (bar'me-sid, -ma-sH), 
by boiling barley and meat with vegetables, n. and . [< one of the Barme'cidce (a Latin- 
[Scotch.] 2. Ale or beer: used jocosely, and ized form, with patronymic suffix -idee) or Bar- 
also in contempt, as in the extract. 
Can sodden water, 
A drench for siir-rein'd jades, their barley broth, 
Decoct their cold blood to such valiant heat? 
Mai:, Hen. V., iii. 5. 
1. A grain of 
strength of infusions of bark, or ooze, 
bark-paper (bark'pa/'per), 11. Paper made from 
bark; specifically, paper made from the bark 
of Brounsonetia papyri/era, a tree common in 
southeastern Asia and Oceanica. Most of the 
paper used in Japan is of this kind. 
bark-pit (biirk'pit), w. A tan-pit, or pit for 
tanning or steeping leather, 
barkstone (bark'ston), H. The concrete musky barleycorn (bar'li-korn), 
secretion taken from the castor-glands of the 
beaver; castor; castoreum. 
bark-stove (biirk'stov), n. Same as bark-bed. 
bark-tanned (bark'tand), . Tanned by the 
slow action of oak, hemlock, or other barks, 
as leather, in contradistinction to that tanned 
wholly or in part by chemicals. 
barky (biir'ki), a. [< bark 2 + -yl.] Consist- 
ing of bark; containing bark; covered with 
bark. 
The barky fingers of the elm. Shale., M. N. D., iv. 1. 
bar-lathe (biir'laTH), M. A lathe with a single 
beam, usually having a triangular section, on 
which the heads or puppets slide. 
barley. 2. A measure equal to the third part 
of an inch ; originally, the length of a grain of 
barley. A statute of Edward II. (A. n. 1324) makes 
"three barley-corns round and dry" the definition of an 
inch. 
3. A measure equal to the breadth of a fine 
grain of barley, about 0.155 inch John or sir 
John Barleycorn, a humorous personification of the 
spirit of barley, or malt liquor : a usage of considerable 
antiquity. 
John Barleycorn was a hero bold 
Of noble enterprise, 
Tor. if you do but taste his blood, 
'Twill make your courage rise. 
meeicles, a noble Persian family founded by 
Barmek or Barmak, and having great power 
under the Abbasside califs.] I. n. One who 
offers imaginary food or illusory benefits : in al- 
lusion to the story, told in the Arabian Nights, 
of a member of the Barmecide family of Bag- 
dad, who on one occasion placed a succession of 
empty dishes before a beggar, pretending that 
they contained a sumptuous repast, a fiction 
which the beggar humorously accepted. 
II. a. Like, or like the entertainment of, 
the Barmecide of the story; hence, unreal, 
sham, illusory, etc.: as, "my Barmecide friend," 
Thackeray; a Barmecide feast or repast. 
It is a Barmecide Feast ; a pleasant field for the imagi- 
nation to rove in. Dickens, Amer. Notes. 
barmilian (bar-mil'yan), n. [Origin unknown.] 
An old name for a kind of fustian goods largely 
exported from England. E. H. Kn if/lit. 
Burn*, John Barleycorn 
_--- barley-fever (bar'li-fe"ver), M. [< barley 1 (as bar-mining (bar'mi"ning), n. In placer-min- 
barley 1 (bar'li), H. [Early mod. E. also barly, a source of strong drink) + fever.'] Illness ing, the washing of the sand or gravel in the bed 
barlye, Sc. barlick ; < ME. barly, berley, bar- caused by intemperance. [North. Eng.] of a stream, when laid bare by the diminution of 
lich, < late AS. ba>rlic, barley, appar. < bere, E. barley-fork (bar'li-fork), n. A hand-fork with the stream at low water, or by building a flume, 
bear 3 , barley, 4- -lie, E. -ly 1 ; the word appears a guard at the root of the tines, used for gath- and thus carrying the water to one side of the 
ering up stalks of barley. channel. The latter method is more commonly 
barleyhood (bar'li-hud), . A fit of drunken- called fltiming. [California.] 
ness, or of ill humor brought on by drinking, barmkin (barm'kin), n. [Also spelled barm- 
The 
first as an attrib., being formally an adj. 
Icel. barlak, and W. barlys, 
barley (as if < barn, bread, + 
llysiau, ttysau, plants, herbs), 
Corn, barliz, are from E.] 
The name of a grain, and of 
the plant yielding it, belong- 
ing to the genus Hordeum, 
natural order Gramineai. 
This grain lias been cultivated 
from the very earliest times, when 
it formed an important article of 
food, as it still does where other 
cereals cannot be raised. It is 
largely employed for feeding ani- 
mals, but its chief use is in the 
manufacture of fermented liquors, 
as beer, ale, and porter, and of 
whisky. No other grain can be 
cultivated through so great a range 
of climate, for it matures in Lap- 
land, Norway, and Iceland, in 66 
and 70 north latitude, and at an 
altitude of 11,000 feet in the Andes 
and Himalaya. The only cultivat- 
ed species that has been found 
wild is the two- rowed or long-eared 
barley, //. dieliclion, a native of 
western Asia, but in cultivation in 
prehistoric times, as was also the 
six-rowed species, or winter barley, 
//. hexaiftichon. Of later origin 
is the common four-rowed species, 
spring or summer barley, H. rulyare. Fan-shaped bar- 
ley, also called battledore- or sprat-barley, //. zeocritun, 
is perhaps only a cultivated f orm of the two-rowed species. 
Several varieties of these species are found in cultivation. 
An ale- 
[Chiefly Scotch.] 
barley-islandt (bar 'li-i 'land), 
\, house. 
// barley-meal (bar'li-mel), . Meal or flour 
made from barley. 
barley-milkt (bar'li -milk), n. Gruel made 
with barley or barley-meal. 
barley-Sick (bar'li-sik), a. [< barley* (see bar- 
ley-fecer) + sick.-] Intoxicated. [Scotch.] 
barley-SUgar (bar'li-shug*'er), w. Sugar boiled 
(formerly in a decoction of barley) till it be- 
comes brittle and candied. 
barley-water (bar'li-wa"ter), . A decoction 
of barley used as a demulcent nutritious drink 
in fevers, and in inflammations of the air-pas- 
sages and of the alimentary canal. 
barley-wine (biir'li-win), n. Ale or beer. 
bar-lift (bar'lift), n. A short metal bar fas- 
Barley. 
Spike of Horiietim vitl- 
fare. 
tened to a heavy window as a convenience in 
lifting it. 
barlingt, n. [North. E. and Sc., < Sw. barling, 
a pole, <. btira = E. bear 1 , q. v.] A pole, 
bar-loom (bar'lom), n. A ribbon-loom. 
barm^t, [ME. barmc, barm, berm, 
bearm (ONorth. barm = OS. OFries. 
barm = Icel. barmr = Sw. Dan. barm = Goth. 
barms), the bosom, with formative -m, < beran, 
E. bear 1 , q. v.] The bosom ; the lap. 
kyn, barnekin, barnkyn; < ME. barmelcen, Ixirnr- 
kijnclt ; origin uncertain; possibly < barinS = 
berm, brim, border, edge (the forms in b/ini- 
being then corruptions), + -kin; but more prob. 
all corruptions of barbican.'] The rampart or 
outer fortification of a castle. [Lowland Scotch 
and North. Eng.] 
And broad and bloody rose the sun, 
And on the barmkyn shone. 
Old ballad, in Boucher's Border Minstrelsy, ii. 341. 
Lord Soulis he sat in Hermitage Castle, 
And Redcap was not hy ; 
And he called on a page, who was witty and sage, 
To go to the barmkin high. 
J. Lei/den, Lord Soulis, in N. and ()., 6th ser., XI. 386. 
Battlements and barmkinz and all the other appurte- 
nances of Strength, as such places were called. Lever. 
barmote (biir'mot), . [A reduction of earlier 
bargemote, also barahmote and berghmote, < G. 
berg, a hill, mine, + E. mote, meeting. Cf. bar- 
master. ] A court established in the reign of Ed- 
ward III. and held twice a year in Derbyshire, 
England, in which matters connected with 
mining are considered. Also written bergmote. 
< AS barmy (bar'mi), a. [< barmV + -y 1 .] Contain- 
OHG * n or resem bli n g barm or yeast; frothy. 
Of windy cider and of barm;/ beer. 
Dnjden, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, iii. 
The grain differs generally from wheat in retaining closely barm 2 (barm), H. [< ME. barme, bermc, < AS. 
Why, thou bottle-ale, 
Thou barjnie froth i 
its husks; it is also somewhat less nutritious and palata- 
ble as an article of food. See Hordevm. Caustic bar- 
ley, an early name for the seeds of Schanoraulon ofe.i- 
'iwle, called in medicine mbadilla, and used as a source of 
veratrin. Mouse, wall, way, or wild barley, Hor- 
deum murinuiii, a grass of little value. Patent barley, 
the farina obtained by grinding pearl-barley. Pearl-bar- 
ley, the grain deprived of husk and pellicle and completely 
rounded by grinding. It is used in making broths and 
in soups. -Scotch, pot, or hulled barley, the grain de- 
prived of the husk in a mill. 
beorma = Fries, lerme, barm = MLG. berm, barmy - brained 
barm, LG. bonne, barme, barm (> G. barme) = headed; giddy. 
Sw.barma = Dan.KErm*/ prob. akin to L. fer- barn 1 (barn), n. 
mentuiii, yeast, < fercere, boil : see ferment, .] 
The scum or foam rising upon beer or other 
malt liquors when fermenting; yeast, it is used 
as leaven in bread to make it swell, causing it to become 
softer, lighter, and more delicate. It may be used in 
liquors to make them ferment or work. It is a fungus, 
/ " e """' <> "- 
Marston, Scourge of Villanie, vi. 
(bar 'mi -brand), a. Light- 
[< ME. barn, bern, < AS. bern, 
barley-bigg (biir'li-big), n. Same as 
barley-bird (bar'li-berd), i. [< barley 1 '+ bird; 
applied to various birds which appear about 
the time of sowing barley.] 1. A name of the 
European wryneck, Tunx torquilla. 2. A 
name of some small bird: said to be either 
the siskin (Cltrysomitris spiinis) or the nightin- 
gale (Daulias plnlomela). [Eng.] 
certain whether barley 1 or barley 2 , or from some 
other source) + break.] An old game played 
by six persons, three of each sex, formed into 
couples. Three contiguoi 
and one couple, placed in , 
catch the others as they passed through. The "middle 
plot was called hell, whence the allusions in old plays to 
the last couple in hel* " 
Sir P. Sidttey, Arcadia, i. 
A thousand agues 
1'lay at bamy-break in my bones. 
Mannnger, Parliament of Love, iv. 5. 
a contr. of berern, bcre-ern, as in ONorth., < 
bere, barley (E. bear%), + ern, a place.] A 
covered building designed for the storage of 
grain, hay, flax, or other farm-produce. In 
America barns also usually contain stabling 
for horses a.nd cattle. 
barn 1 (barn), v. t. [< bam 1 , .] To store up 
in a barn. Shak., Lucrece, 1. 859. 
Men . . . often barn up the chaff, and burn up the 
grain. Fuller, Good Thoughts, p. 110. 
barn-t, n. [Early mod. and dial. E.,< Sc. bairn, 
q. v., < ME. beern, bern, < AS. beam, a child. 
See bairn.-] A child. 
Mercy on 's, a barn ; a very pretty barn ! A boy or a 
child, I wonder? Shak., W. T., iii. 3. 
barnabee (bar'na-be), n. [E. dial. (Suffolk); 
prob. in allusion to Barnaby dav. See Bar- 
earher barghmajter, barge master, prob. < G. naby-bright.-] The lady-bird. 
bergmeister, a surveyor of mines, < berg, a hill, Barnabite (bar'na-bit), n. [=F. Barnabite, < 
a mine (= E. barrow: see barroic 1 and bargh), LL. Barnabas, < Gr. Bapvd/3af, a Hebrew name 
4- meistcr = E. master. A number of E. min- translated "son of consolation" (Acts iv. 36), 
ing terms are of G. origin. Cf. barmote.'] In more accurately "son of exhortation" or "son 
mining, the title of an officer who acts as man- of prophecy."] In the Horn. Catli. CIi., a mem- 
'igioi 
:ierl 
, having their popular designation 
Also called bailiff, bergmaster, and burghmas- from the church of St. Barnabas in Milan, which 
ter. [Derbyshire, Eng.] was granted to them in 1545, soon after the 
barmbrack (barm'brak), . [A corruption of foundation of the congregation. Their princi- 
Ir. bairigen breac, speckled cake : bairigen, pal house is now in Rome. 
bairghean, bairin, a cake; breac, speckled, barnabyt (bar'na-bi), . [Prob. connected 
spotted.] A currant-bun. [Anglo-Irish.] with the celebration of Barnaby day, < Barna- 
An artificial 
made in the form of a straight 
nder bar. 
'mad), n. A maid or woman who 
attends the bar of an inn or other place of re- 
freshment. 
barman (bar'man), n. ; pi. barmen (-men). If. 
A barrister. 2. A barkeeper or bartender, 
barmaster (bar'mas < 'ter), it. [Reduced from 
