B A R 
.inventive ; dull.—There be of them that tv ill make them- 
felves laugh, to let"on Tome quantity of barren lpeclators 
to laugh too. Skakefpeare. 
Barren Corn, the name given to a didemper in corn 
by M. Aimen, who fil'd oblerved it. It is mod common 
in wheat and rye ; the ears of which are long, lean, and 
white ; in fome the (lamina are dry, tranfparent, and horn¬ 
ed : the female organs ate (mail, whiter, and lefs velvety, 
than in healthy ears; in others the filaments are (mailer, 
the apices are void of farina, and the digrnata badly un¬ 
folded. It is owing either to the too hidden growth of 
the corn ; to froft. or to hot gleams of fun-(hine after hard 
(bowers ; and fometimes, though very rarely, to infects. 
.Count Ginnani imputes this difeafe of corn to the faulti- 
nefs of the foil; and he recommends particular attention 
to the amendment of it by fitch means as are bed fuitable 
.to its nature; and he alfo directs to change the feed every 
year. 
Barren Island, in the Eaft-lndian Sea, about fix 
leagues in circumference, and eighteen leagues ead from 
the Great.Andaman. Lat. 12.20. N. Ion. 94. 10. E.Ferro. 
Barren Islands, at the entrance of Cook’s river, on 
the wed coad of North America. 
Barren Money is ufed in the civil law, for that which 
is not put out to filtered. 
Barren Signs, with adrologers, the ligns Gemini, 
Leo, and Virgo, Co called, becaufe when the quedion is 
.afked, whether Inch a perfon (hall have children or not ? 
if one of thofe figns be upon the cufp, or fird point, of 
the fird houfe, they take it for granted, that the perfon 
enquiring (hall have none. 
Barren Springs, a name given by hufbandmen to 
thofe whole waters are injurious to land. Such are mod 
of thofe that flow from coal-mines, or through beds of I’ul- 
phureous minerals. 
BAR'RENLY, adv. Unfruitfully. 
BAR'RENNESS,/. Want of offspring; want of the 
power of procreation: 
I pray’d for children, and thought barrennefs 
In wedlock a reproach. Milton. 
Unfruitfulnefs ; derility ; infertility.—Within the (elf- 
fame hamlet, lands have divers degrees of value, through 
the diveriity of their fertility or barrennefs. Bacon. —Want 
of invention; want of the power of producing any thing 
new.—The adventures of Ulyffes are imitated in the JE- 
neis; though the accidents are not the fame, which would 
have argued him of a total barrennefs ot invention. Dry- 
den. —Want of matter; fcantinefs—The importunity of 
our adverfaries hath condrainea us longer to dwell than 
the barrennefs of fo poor a cattle could havedeemed either 
to require or to admit. Hooker. — In theology, it dignifies 
aridity; want of emotion or fenfibility.—The greated faints 
fometimes are fervent, and fometimes feel a barrennefs of 
devotion. Taylor. 
Barrenneis was held a grievous afflidbon by the wives of 
the ancient patriarchs. Women who are prolific frequent¬ 
ly become fierile after a mifearriage, or a difficult labour, 
by reafon of injuries done to the uterus, cr Come other of 
the genital parts. It is alfo certain, that derility in either 
(ex may arife from a fchirrofity or induration in the organs 
dedined to generation, whence their functions are either 
depraved or abolifhed ; as, for indance, the tedicles may 
become fchirrous in men, as we are (hewn by innumera¬ 
ble indances. But, lince there are feveral neceffary cir- 
cumdances required in women, that they may be capable 
not only of receiving the fird rudiments of the incipient 
animal, but alia that they may be able to retain and nou- 
ri(h the fame to its proper time of perfeCl maturity ; it is 
from thence evident, that the caufes of derility are much 
more frequent in the female lex. In fat women, Hippo¬ 
crates afferts, that the large omentum compreffes the ute¬ 
rus in fuch a manner, that they are not capable of receiv¬ 
ing the femen mafculinnm ; but this is unlikely. If the 
uteri ihoulu be fchirrous, as alfo its neck, which’may 
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be known by palling up the finger, the woman will be bar¬ 
ren unleis cured of that diforder. But alio .the opening 
of dead bodies demondrates that fchirrofities concealed in 
thefe parts have occalioned barrennefs. A woman of (ixty 
years old, who had been married twice but never conceiv¬ 
ed, was opened by Ilildanus, that he might di(cover the 
caufe of her derility: and he found a fchirrous round the 
os uteri, which inveded the neck of the womb like a ring; 
and by that means fo driCtly doled its opening, that it was 
difficult even to introduce a probe. In another woman, 
that was taken with an inflammation of the uterus, in her 
fird lying-in, and remained ever afterwards barren, lie 
found after her death, that a fchirrous, equal to the (ize of 
a goofe-egg, was placed in fuch a manner before the os 
uteri, as totally to exclude the paflage of any thing to that 
organ, and fo firmly adhered to the circumjacent parts, 
that it could not by any means be pulled off. Van Sude¬ 
ten afferts, that he has feen the vagina uteri fchirrous 
throughout, and fo much fw'elled in every point as to be 
(carcely able to admit a probe. It is alfo frequently ob- 
ferved in women who have lived derile, that the uterus 
begins to turn cancerous about the time when their.menfes 
leave them ; in which terrible diforder they are afflicted 
with fevere pains, and a profufe difehargeof a putrid mat¬ 
ter, the veflels being rendered varicofe, and afterwards 
eroded.- From all which it is fufficiently evident, that a 
fehirrus is defervedly reckoned among other organical de¬ 
feats which caufe derility. 
BAR'RENWORT,y. in botany. See Epimedium. 
BARREO'NE, a river of Piedmont, which runs into 
the Vefubia, near St. Martin, in the county of Tenda. 
BARRE'RIA,yi [from Peter Barrere, profeflbr of’me¬ 
dicine at Perpignan.] In botany, a genus of the clafs-fyn- 
. genefia, order monogamia. The genetic characters.are— 
Calyx: nerianthium one-leafed, five-toothed, final], Co¬ 
rolla : one petalled, five-parted ; parts oblong, acute, con¬ 
vex beneath, concave above, with a double pit; the fupe- 
r:or ovate, bifid; the wedge-fhaped one trifid; excavated 
for the reception of thedamens. Stamina: filaments five, 
afeending, linear, wider above, thick, triangular, border¬ 
ed, curved; antherae ereCt, four-cornered, marginated, 
coalefcing into the form of a mill-wheel; each, in a clo- 
fed flower, anfwering, together with the filaments, to the 
pits of two of the petals. Piflilhtm: germ roundifh; 
dylefhott; ftignta trifid.— EJfential Char abler. Calyx five¬ 
toothed, very final L Corolla five-parted; fiyle Ihort; 
ffignia trifid. 
Of tills there is but one fpecies, called barreria Guia- 
nenfis. It is a tree forty or fifty feet in height, and two 
feet and a half in diameter: the bark is afh-coloured, and 
the wood is reddifli brown, hard, and compaCt. It fends 
forth from the top a great number of branches, which rife 
and (pread in all directions. Thefe branches are loaded 
with twigs, on which are alternate, entire, fmooth, firm, 
ovate, leaves, ending in a long point; their petiole is fliort, 
convex beneath, channelled above; the large ft are (even 
inches long, and three broad. The flowers are in fmall 
axillary (pikes, alternate, and aimed feflile. Native of 
Guiana, in the extenfive forefts, near the banks of the ri¬ 
ver Sinemari, fifty leagues from its mouth. It flowers 
there in November. 
BARR'FUL, adj. [from bar and full.~\ Full of obdruc- 
tions : 
A barrful flrife ! 
Whoe'er I woo, rnyfelf would be his wife. Sha/icfpeare. 
BARRICA'DE, f. [barricade , Fr.] A fortification 
made in hade, of trees, earth, waggons, or any thing elfe, 
to keep off an attack. Any dop ; bar ; or obdruftion. 
The mod ufual materials for military barricades confrd 
of pales or flakes, eroded with batoons, and (hod with 
iron at the fee;, ufual ly. fet up in paffages or breaches." 
Barricade, in. naval architecture, a ftrong wooden 
rail, (up pot ted by danchions, extending acrofs the fore- 
mod part of tlie quarter-deck. In a fttip of war, the va¬ 
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