BAR 
BAR'M'AS, an Eaft-Indian people, who in I3'i3 pof- 
fefled all the coaft from Bengal to Pegu. It appears al(o, 
that they were formerly matters of Ava, the dominions of 
which extended as far as China; of'courfe the Barmas 
were matters of mod of the northern part of the peninfu- 
la beyond the Ganges. Their dominions, however, were 
afterwards reduced to very narrow bounds, and they be¬ 
came tributary to the king of Pegu ; but by degrees they 
not only recovered their former empire, but conquered the 
kingdoms of Pegu, Siam, and feveral others. By the lateft 
accounts, their kingdom extends from the province of 
Yun-nan in China, about 800 miles in length from north 
to fouth, and 250 in breadth from eaft to weft. 
BAR'MEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of Weft- 
phalia, and duchy of Berg, fituated- in a fertile valley to 
which it gives name. It is five miles north of I.aunep. 
BAR'MOTE. See Barghmote. 
BAR'MOUTH, a fea-port of North Wales, in the 
county of Merioneth, fituated in a bay to which it gives 
name : eight miles fouth-weft of Dolgelly. 
BAR'MY , adj. Containing barm ; yeqfty : 
Their jovial nights in frolics and in play 
They pafs, to drive the tedious hours away ; 
And their cold ftomachs with crown’d goblets cheer 
Of windy cider, and of barmy beer. Dryden- 
BARN, f. [ bem , Sax.] A place or houfe for laying up 
any fort of grain, hay, or draw: 
In vain the barns expeft their promis’d load; 
Nor barns at home, nor reeks are heap’d abroad. Dryden. 
Improvement in the building of barns appearing to be 
a matter of great public utility, the committee of the Bath 
Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture propofed 
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a premium for the conftrudlion of a barn on a new and 
improved plan; in confeqnence of which the following 
model was communicated by Mr. Henry Dobfon, of Nor¬ 
wich. “ The ties and braces of the barns now in ufe, 
have always been a juft caufe of complaint with the farm¬ 
er; but the form of the prefent plan renders thefe unne- 
celftiry, which not only makes the fpace occupied more 
commodious, but produces a. coniiderable faving in the 
quantity of timber. 
“ I am well aware (fays Mr; Dobfon) that the dimen- 
fions of the threlhing-floors, in this model, will be ob- 
je£led to, as almoft every innovation on the common prac¬ 
tice is; but, to candid men, and to fuch only improve¬ 
ments ought to be intruded, they will be found quite dif¬ 
fident. 1 have obferved, that the threftier feldom ufes a 
larger fpace to tlirefh upon than that aftigned for this 
purpofe in the prefent model; and the porches in com¬ 
mon ufe, added to the enormous width of the barn, can 
lerve for very little more than a receptacle for the threfti- 
ed corn ; the bow at the end of each threftiing-floor is in¬ 
tended for this purpofe, and will contain near two lafts* 
undrefted, or in facks. The only obiedion that remains 
is, the length not being diffident to drels the corn upon ; 
the udial method being; to fling it with a (hovel, as'nuicli 
as pollible, to the diflanee of from twenty to twenty-fix 
feet; by which means the heavier particles fly fartheft, 
and the unfound corn and lnifks are of courfe left in tlie 
intermediate (pace : as this part of the procefs occupies as 
little, if not lefs, time than any other, it will not the dif¬ 
ficult to find a diffident time of fine weather, in any fea- 
fon, to place a fail-cloth, or boards prepared for that 
purpofe, to the diftance of twelve or fourteen feet from 
the doors, which will effedually anfwer every purpofe of 
thole now in ufe,” 
But as threfhing is, for the mod part, done in the win¬ 
ter-months, when the barn-doors are generally frequented 
by cattle, poultry, and birds, great inconvenience would 
be found in lengthening the floor by a fail-cloth, or boards, 
as Mr. Dobfon propoles. But, if the corn be dreffed with 
a winnowing-engine, (as is frequently pradtifed in many 
counties,) the length of the floor will be quite fufficient. 
In every other refpect, the Bath Society pronounced this 
the completeft model of a barn they ever faw, and paid 
Mr. Dobfon the premium accordingly. 
The following are the dimenlions of a common barn, 
50 feet by 20%, and thofe of one according to the model; 
Common Barn. 
1,475 Square feet, the area 
14,426 Cubic ft. for corn only 
702 Cubic feet of timber 
VOL. II. No. 99. 
Barn according to Model. 
1,472 Square feet, the area 
30,900 Cubic ft. forcornonly 
445 Cubic feet of timber 
By which calculation it appears, that a barn built oq 
the model propofed by Mr. Dobfon, as reprefented in the 
annexed figure, gains, on one in common ufe of the fame 
area, 6,474 cubic feet of fpace, and is built with 257 cu¬ 
bic feet of timber lefs; and, as there is nothing in its con- 
ftrudion which would increafe the expence of workman- 
ftiip, the difference between the expence of building a 
barn on this plan, and that of one in common ufe, of the 
fame area, would be as 445 to 702. It is needlefs to fay 
any thing of its mathematical ftrength, as it muft be ob¬ 
vious to any one who is at all acquainted with mechanics* 
that the method here propofed is of all others the beft cal¬ 
culated to anfwer .the purpofe. 
Barn, or Bearn,/. A child, in the Scotch or North 
Country dialed!:. 
Barn-floor, that part of a barn which is boarded, 
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