barnaby 
by, formerly also Baniubii; < F. BanuiM, < LL. 
Barnabas, Barnabas: see Barnabite.] An old 
dance to a quick movement. 
Bounce! cries the port-hole -nut they fly, 
And make the world dance Bariiiibn. 
Cotton, Virgil Travestie. 
Barnaby-bright (bilr'na-bi-brit), . [Also 
Humility bright, Jtiiniii/n/ tin- bright, and (Srnlt. 
L. of L. M., iv. 4) ,S7. liiiniiibright ; also called 
IMHIJ Itnniii/ii/, in ref. to the eoineidence of 
Barnaby day with the summer solstice.] The 
day of St. Barnabas the Apostle, the llth of 
June, which in old style was the day of the 
summer solstice. 
HiiniHliii-liri'ilit, the limgcxt <luy and the shortest niirht. 
Okl rime. 
This .lay the snnnc is in his ehi.-fest higlit, 
Witll llctrnilt'i/ tin' ln-i<ilif. 
>>,!.,/-, r.pithalamlon, 1. 2MS. 
Barnaby day. Same as Banaby-brigkt, 
barnacle 1 (biir-nii-kl), . [Also barnidt; h> !- 
nude; < ME. bariiaki/lli'. In rniikill, bernacle, ap- 
par. a dim. of the earlier bmnike, heniak, ber- 
itack, brnu-kkr; cf. OF. bernaque (ML. Ixriini-ii, 
brrneka), later F. beriiaclie, mod. barmn-hi . 
barnacle = Sp. bernache = Pg. IM-I-HUCII, bernu- 
cha, bi-niidiii = It. bi-niiidtt, later ML. or NL. 
lii-niidn. In n da, bernacula ; (i. In-riiikd-giittx, 
Dan. bernukel-gaas. Ultimate origin unknown. 
The word seems to have arisen in England. 
The oldest ME. form, bernekke, could be simply 
'bare-neck,' with a possible allusion to the 
large white patches on the bird's neck and head. 
If this were a popular designation, it could 
easily, when taken into book-language and Lat- 
inized, assume the above and the other numer- 
ous corrupt forms (ML. berniclia, bernceha, ber- 
nfscha, bernesta, etc. ) in which it appears. The 
loss of a knowledge of its meaning would assist 
the growth of the fables connected with the 
word.] 1. A species of wild goose, Anser ber- 
Barnacle-goose (Bernitla leucopsis}. 
nicla or Rernicla leucopsis, also called barnacle- 
goose or bernacle-goose. It is one of several species 
of the genus Bernicla, inhabiting the northern parts of 
Rurope, and occasionally appearing as a straggler in North 
America. It la smaller than the various wild geese of the 
genus Anser proper, has dark-brown or blackish upper 
farts, and a Mack neck and head, witli large white patches, 
t is related to the common wild goose of North America, 
B. eanadtniis, and still more closely to the brent- or brant- 
goose, Bernicla brenta. This bird, which was known in the 
British islands only as a visitor, became the subject of a 
curious popular fable, not yet extinct, being believed to be 
bred from a tree growing on the sea-shore, either from the 
fruit of the tree or as itself the fruit (hence called tree- 
!/oose), or from a shell-fish which grew on this tree (see 
def. 2), or from rotting wood in the water. 
So rotten planks of broken ships do change 
To Barnacles. . . . 
"f was flret a green tree, then a broken hull, 
Lately a Mushroom, now a flying Gull. 
Sylcfsler, tr. of Du Bartas, 1. 6. 
2. A species of stalked cirriped, Lepas anali- 
fera, of the family Lepadidce, found hanging in 
clusters by the long peduncle to the bottoms of 
ships, to floating timber, or to submerged wood 
of any kind; the goose-mussel, fabled to fall 
from its support and turn into a goose (see def. 
1 ). The name is sometimes extended or transferred to 
various other cirripeds, as the sessile acorn-shells or sea- 
:irorus of the family Halunidfr, such as Balanux tintinna- 
liiilHiit. See tliiliiHim. This is the usual sense of the word, 
except in Great Britain. 
A barnacle may be said to be a crustacean fixed by its 
head, and kicking the food into its mouth with its legs. 
Htaley, Anat. Invert., p. 256. 
455 
3. Any thing resembling a barnacle (in sense 2). 
(a) Any anomalous growth orextraneoua adhering matter 
orarranj-iement tend 
ing to impede pro- 
greaa. 
i 'ompnlsory pilot- 
age, tile three 
months extra pay to 
crews discharged in 
foreign lands, and 
the obligatory em- 
ployment of govern- 
ment ottieials for the 
shipment of sailors 
in American ports, 
are all lut ,-,i<K'l,>>< . . . 
Which impede the 
pro-iess of onr com- 
menial marine. 
It. A. HV//x,Merehant 
I Marine, p. 181. 
(6) A person holding 
on tenaciously to a Barnacle (Lefas analifera}. 
plaee or position ; 
one who is a useless or incompetent fixture in an office 
or employment ; a follower who will not be dismissed or 
shaken off. 
4f. [Cf. Imriiiiril.] A decoy swindler. [Cant.] 
barnacle 1 (bar'na-kl), r. t. ; pret. and pp. bar- 
niidi-il, ppr. barniidiiig. [< bariiadfl, .] To 
fix or attach, as a barnacle upon the bottom 
of a ship. [Kare.] 
He barnacled himself toGershon. now, and shipped with 
him always. 3lrs. Vhiim-ii, liayworthys, xxiv. 
barnacle 2 (bar'na-kl), n. [Also barnicle, ber- 
nide; < ME. biiriiiik/illf. bi/rniidf, bi-nxtdi- (< OF. 
bernicle, an instrument of torture), appar. a dim. 
of the earlier brriiaki: Ixrnak, bernac,< OF. ber- 
nac, a barnacle (def. 1) ; origin unknown. The 
word branlcs, q. v., has a similar meaning, but 
no connection can be made out. The sense 
of ' spectacles ' easily arises from the original 
sense ; but some coniiect barnacles in this sense 
with OF. bcricle, mod. F. beside, eye-glass (< 
ML. "bericulus, dim. of berillus, berMus, beryl : 
see beryl and brills), or with mod. F. dial, ber- 
ni(jiies, spectacles.] 1. Akind of bit or muzzle 
used to restrain an unruly horse or ass; now 
(usually in the plural), an instrument consist- 
ing of two branches joined at one end with a 
hinge, placed on a horse's nose to restrain him 
while being shod, bled, or dressed. 
A scourge to an hors and a tentacle [bridle, A. V.] to an 
asse. Wyclif, Prov. xxvi. 3. 
Hence 2. An instrument of torture applied in 
a similar way to persons. 3. pi. Spectacles. 
[Colloq.] 
What d'ye lack? What d'ye lack? Clocks, watches, bar- 
nuclei! What d'ye lack, air? What d'ye lack, madam? 
Scoff, Fortunes of Nigel. 
barnacle 2 (bar'na-kl), v. t. ; pret. and pp. bar- 
nacled, ppr. barnacling. [< barnacle^, n.] To 
apply barnacles to : as, to barnacle a horse. 
barnacle-goose (bar'na-kl-g6s), n. [Formerly 
also abbr. bargoose; t barnacle 1 , I, + goose.~\ 
Same as barnacle^, 1. 
barnardt (bar'nard), n. [Also bernard ; per- 
haps for berncr, q. v.] One of a gang of swin- 
dlers who acted as a decoy. 
Barnburner (barn'ber'ner), n. [In reference 
to the story of a farmer who burned his barn 
to get rid of the rats.] A member of the more 
progressive of the two factions into which the 
Democratic party in the State of New York 
was long divided, the other faction being called 
the Hunkers. The Barnburners opposed the extension 
of the canal system, and after 1840 they opposed the ex- 
tension of slavery in the Territories. In a few years most 
of them joined the new Free-soil party. 
The internal reform of a party cannot be carried out by 
corrupt leaders. One of the main objects of the reform- 
ers was to break the influence of the latter, and to this 
they owed their appellation of barnburners, their enemies 
charging them with a readiness to burn the building with 
the vermin, in default of a less radical means of purifica- 
tion. H. ran Hoist, Const. Hist, (trans), III. 369. 
barncock (bam'kok), n. A local Scotch name 
of the turbot : so called on account of its round 
shape. Day. 
barn-door (barn'dor'), n. The door of a barn. 
Barn-door fowl, a mongrel or cross-bred specimen of 
the common hen ; a dunghill or barn-yard fowl. 
bar-net (bar'net), n. A net placed across a 
stream to guide fish into a wing-pond. 
barney (biir'ni), n. [Perhaps from the proper 
name Barney for Barnaby, formerly very com- 
mon as a Christian name, and still common 
among the Irish. But in 3d sense cf. blarney.] 
1. In mining, a small car used in the anthracite 
region of Pennsylvania on inclined planes and 
slopes to push the mine-car iip the slope. 2. 
A prize-fight. [Slang.] 3. Humbug. 
barney-pit (bar'ni-pit), n. In the anthracite 
mines of Pennsylvania, a pit at the bottom of 
baroco 
a slope or plane into which the barney runs. 
in order to allow the mine-car to run in over 
it to tin' foot of the plane. 
barn-gallon (barn'gal'pn), n. A measure con- 
taining two imperial gallons of milk; a double 
gallon. 
barn-grass (biirn'grus), >/. The common 
s]>ur-o;rass, 1'tinirniii I ' 
barnhardtite (barn'lmr-tit), n. [< 
name of the owner of land in North Carolina 
where it is found, + -i7c a .] A snlpliid of cop- 
per and iron occurring massi vi' and t 'a liron/.c- 
yellow color in North Carolina and eli-cwhiTr. 
barnman (biirn'nmn), .; pi. biirnmen (-men). 
A laborer in a barn; a thresher. 
liiiinninn, -nuer ha> uard. and \\oodward were alike 
xerfs. J. It. <;;, ,,. Short Mi.-t. "t Kng., p. 50. 
barn-owl (barn'oul), n. 1. The common white 
owl, Ntris Jin tunica or Alttco flammrux : so called 
from being often found in bams, where it is 
useful as a destroyer of mice. It* i-onxpe. 
varieties inhabit neurl) all temperate regions nf the^lolie. 
The variety found in the Tinted states is .!/</... , 
cola. Also called church 
Barn-owl (Aluca flammttta]. 
2. pi. The owls of the barn-owl type, genera 
Strix or Aluco and Phodilus, which differ so 
decidedly from all other owls that naturalists 
now consider them types of a distinct family. 
See owl and Aluconidte. 
barns-breaking (barnz'bra'king), . [Sc., in 
allusion to the act of breaking open a barn to 
steal grain.] Any mischievous or injurious 
action ; an idle frolic. 
There is blood on your hand, and your clothes are toni. 
What banut-breakiwi have you been at ? You have been 
drunk, Richard, and fighting. Scott. 
barn-stormer (barn'stdr^mfer), . A strolling 
player ; an actor who plays ' ' in the provinces." 
barn-Storming (bam'stor'niing), . [In allu- 
sion to " taking by storm " the barns in which 
strolling actors often played.] The practice of 
acting in barns, as strolling players; hence, 
the practice of playing "upon the road " or " in 
the provinces." 
barn-swallow (barn'swol'o), . The common 
swallow of the United States, Hirundo horren- 
rum or H. erythro- 
gastra: so called 
because it habit- 
ually breeds in 
barns. The upper 
parts are dark steel- 
blue, the lower parts JHwI^I ^^ \*- 
chestnut with an im- >^-^* ^* 
perfect collar, and the 
tail deeply forked and 
spotted with white. 
It is the American 
representative of the 
similar //. mstica of 
Europe. 
barn-yard (biirn'- 
yard), n. A yard 
surrounding or ad- 
joining a barn. 
Barn-yard fOWl, any Barn-swallow > /HrnHtto erytttrofaslra . 
specimen of the com- 
mon domestic fowl, including hens, geese, ducks, guineas, 
and turkeys ; specifically, a mongrel or cross-bred speci- 
men of these fowls ; a barn-door fowl. 
baro-. [< Gr. /Jiipof, weight, < ftapi't, heavy, = 
L. gravis, heavy: see grare 9 .'] An element 
in certain compound scientific terms, implying 
heaviness. 
baroco 1 (ba-ro'ko), n. [An artificial name in- 
vented by Petrus Hispanus.] In logic, the 
