.5*04 BAR 
a considerable town, divided into Upper and Lower; the 
reparation, being formed by a cafile, called Bar, (and was 
as it were a barrier between France and Lorraine,) the 
walli and towers of v\ hich were demolished by Louis XIV. 
The river Ornain runs through the lower part of the town. 
They compute about Sooo inhabitants in the whole. It is 
feven leagues fouth-fouth-eaft of St. Menehould, and nine 
and a half weft of Toui. Lat. 4S. 47. N. Ion. 22. 50. E. 
Ferro. 
Bar-master, among miners, the perfon who keeps the 
gage, or dith, for meafuring the ore. 
Bar-shot, two half bullets joined together by an iron 
bar-;, ufed in lea-engagements for putting down the malts 
and rigging. 
To Bar, v. a. To fatten or fnut any thing with a bolt, 
or bar.—When you bar the window-(Jujt.t?rs of your la- 
.dyis.bed-chamber£t nights, leave open the failles to let 
in air. Swift. —To hinder; toobftrucl: 
When law can do no right. 
Let it be lawful, that law .bar no wrong. Shakcfpeare. 
To.prevent; to exclude; to make impracticable.—The 
houi’es of the country were all fcattered, and yet not fo 
far oft' as that it barred mutual fuepour. Sidney.— -To de¬ 
tain, by excluding the claimants: with from; 
Hath he fet-bounds between their love and me ? 
I am their mother; who (hall bar them from me > Shaft f. 
•To. fliut out: with from : 
'Our hope of'Italy not only loft, 
•But fliut. from ev’ry fliore, and barr'dfrom ev’ry coaft. 
Dry dm. 
To exclude from ufe, right, or claim; with from before the 
thing.—God,hath abridged it, by barring us from fome 
things of themfelves indifferent. Hooker. —To prohibit.— 
What is a greater pedant than a mere man of the town ? 
Bar him the playhoufes, ,and you Itrike him dumb. Addi - 
fon. —To except; to make an exception: 
Nay, but I bar to-night; you fliall not gage me 
By what we do to-night, Shakcfpeare. 
In law, to hinder the procefs of s. fuit.—If a bifliop be a 
.party to a fuit; and, excommunicates his adverfary, fuch 
excommunication fliall not difable or bar his adverfary. 
Ayiff'c. 
To B.a-r a Vein, in farriery, a vulgar term, fignifying 
an operation performed upon the veins of the legs and 
other parts of .a horfe. It is fometimes performed in a 
difeale called the bloodfpavin, which confifts in a varicofe 
,ftate or morbid enlargement of the veins of the part. It 
is done by dividing the jkin above it, difengaging the vein, 
and tying it both above and below', fo as to obliterate it 
entirely. 
B A'RA, a fmall ifland in the Adriatic, oppolite to 
iBrundufnim j now Pharos of Mela. AHo .a frith or arm 
of the fea of Britannia Secunda; fuppofed to be Murray 
•frith. Ptolemy. 
B.ar.a, one of the Hebrides. See Barra. 
Bara, the name of a feftival celebrated with much mag¬ 
nificence at Medina, representing the aftumption of the 
Virgin. The bar a, though ufed as the general denomina¬ 
tion of this feftival, flgnifies a machine fifty feet high, at 
the top of which a young girl of fourteen, reprefenting 
the Virgin, Hands upon the hand of an image of Chrift. 
{Round him turn vertically, in a circle, twelve little chil¬ 
dren which reprefent the feraphims; below them, in ano¬ 
ther circle, which turns horizontally, are twelve more re¬ 
prefenting the chertibims: below thefe a fun turns verti¬ 
cally, with a child at tlje extremity of eaclt of the four 
.principal radii of his circle, who afeendand defeendwith 
.his rotation, yet ftill ftand upright. Below the fun is the 
jioweft circle, about feven feet from the ground, in which 
.twelve boys turn horizontally without interruption; thefe 
are intended for the twelve apoftles, who are fuppofed to 
Turround the tomb of the Virgin at the moment when fite 
BAR 
afeends into heaven. This complicated machine is "drawn 
by a number of monks, all uniformly drelfed and chpfen 
on this fuperftitious occafion. 
Bara Marera,/! in botany. See Dolichos. 
Bara Picklet, bread made of fine flourkneaded with 
barm, which makes it very light and fpongy: bara being 
tlie Welfh for bread. In the north of England it is.form¬ 
ed into flat cakes, which are called picklets. 
BARAB'BAS, [tarns Syr. of *3 a fon, and son a fa¬ 
ther; the father’s foil.] A notorious malefactor, whom the 
Jews prayed might bereleafed when they demanded Chrift 
to be crucified. 
BARABIA'CO, a town of Italy, in the Milanefe, fi- 
tuated on the Colona, twelve miles weft of Milan. 
BARABIN'ZIANS, a tribe of Tartars, living on both 
Tides the river Iris. They derive their name from tiie Ba- 
rabaian defert, whofe lakes fupply them abundantly with 
fifli, on lyhich, and their cattle, they chiefly fubfift. They 
have plenty of game and wild-fowl, particularly ducks 
and puffins. Moft of them are heathens, but Mahome¬ 
tan ifm daily gains ground among them. Some of them 
pay tribute to Ruflia, and others to the khan Taifha. 
BAR/UCE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Mayne and Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftricl of Chateauneuf: four leagues north-north'-eaft of 
Angers, and two eaft-fouth T eaft of Chateauneuf. 
BARACO'A, a fea-port town of the ifland of Cuba, 
feventeen leagues north-eaft of St. Jago, Lat. 21.4. N. 
Ion. 76. 10. W. Greenwich. 
BARAFAT', a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 
Fonia, fituated on a.peninfula formed by the river Gam- 
bia and two other rivers. 
BA'RAK, [pis Heb, i. e. lightning.] A proper parse 
, of men. 
BARALTF'TON, f among logicians, a term denoting 
the firft indiredt mode of the firft figure of fyllogifm. A 
fyllogifm in baralipton, is when the two firft propofitions 
are general, and the third particular, the middle term be¬ 
ing the fubjedl in the firft propofition, and the predicate 
in the fecond. The following is of this kind : 
B A. Every evil ought to be feared; 
r a. Every violent paffion is an evil; 
LI?. Therefore fomething that ought to be feared is a 
violent paffion. 
B ARAIJ-OT'S, a fed! of heretics at Bologna in Italy, 
who had all things in common, even their wives and chil¬ 
dren. Thejr facility in complying with all manner of de¬ 
bauchery, procured them the name obedientes, ‘ compilers.’ 
B ARAN'CA-DEL-MELAM'BO, a fea-port town of 
South America, in the country of Terra Firma, at the 
mouth of the river Magdelana, with a good harbour. It 
is twenty-five leagues north-eaft of Carthagena. Lat. 11. 
39. N. Ion. 75. 8. W. Greenwich. 
BARAN'CAS (Las), a town of North America, in the 
province of New Mexico, forty-five miles fouth-fouth-eaft 
of Santa Fe. 
BARA'NEI STA'NITZ, a town.or fettlement of Si¬ 
beria, on the Lena, fifty-two miles north-eaft of Vitim- 
Ikoi. Lat. 54. 50. N. Ion. 131.0. E, Ferro. 
BARAN'GI,_/. officers among t)ie Greeks of the lower 
empire, whofe bufinefs it was to keep the keys of the city- 
gates where the emperor refided. Codinus fays, barangi 
were thofe who ftood guard at the door of the emperor’s 
bed-chamber and dining-room. Codinus and Curopalata 
obferve, that the name is Englilh, formed from bar , to 
fliut; and that the barangi were Englishmen by country; 
Anglo-Danes, who, being driven out of England, were 
received into the fervice of the emperor of Conftantino- 
ple, and made guards or protedlors of his perfon : whence 
they are called in Latin, by Cnjacius, protettores ; by o* 
thers ,fecurigeri, as being armed with a battle-axe, fecuris. 
Codinus adds, that they ftill fpoke the Englifh tongue. 
Anna Comnena fays, the barangi came from the ifland 
Thule: by which is, doubtlefs, meant our jfland. Yet 
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