Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BARE'FOOT, a. [or adv.]

With the feet bare; as, to dance barefoot. – Shak.

BARE'FOOT-ED, a.

Having the feet bare.

BARE'GNAWN, a. [See Gnaw.]

Eaten bare. – Shak.

BARE'HEAD-ED, a. [See Head.]

Having the head uncovered, either from respect or other cause. – Bacon. Dryden.

BARE'HEAD-ED-NESS, n.

State of being bareheaded.

BARE'LEG-GED, a.

Having the legs bare. – Burton.

BARE'LY, adv.

Nakedly; poorly; indigently; without decoration; merely; only; without any thing more; as, a prince barely in title. – Barret. Hooker.

BARE'NECK-ED, a.

Having the neck uncovered; exposed. – Shak.

BARE'NESS, n.

Nakedness; leanness; poverty; indigence; defect of clothes, or the usual covering. – Shak. South.

BARE'PICK-ED, a.

Picked to the bone. – Shak.

BARE'RIB-BED, a.

Lean. – Shak.

BAR'ET, n.

A cardinal's cap.

BAR'FUL, a.

Full of obstructions. – Shak.

BAR'GAIN, n. [Fr. barguigner, to haggle, to hem and haw; Arm. barguignour, a haggler; It. bargagnare, to cavil, contend; bargain; Ir. braighean, debate. It seems to accord with It. briga, Sp. brega, and Fr. brigue.]

1. An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property; for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration.
2. Stipulation; interested dealing.
3. Purchase, or the thing purchased. – Locke.
4. In popular language, final event; upshot; as, we must make the best of a bad bargain. To sell bargains, is a vulgar phrase. To strike a bargain, is to ratify an agreement, originally by striking, or shaking hands. The Latin ferire fœdus, may represent a like ceremony, unless it refers to the practice of killing a victim, at the solemn ratification of oaths. Bargain and sale, in law, a species of conveyance, by which the bargainer contracts to convey the lands to the bargainee, and becomes by such contract a trustee for and seised to the use of the bargainee. The statute then completes the purchase; that is, the bargain vests the use, and the statute vests the possession. – Blackstone.

BAR'GAIN, v.i.

To make a contract or conclusive agreement, for the transfer of property; often with for before the thing purchased; as, to bargain for a house. A bargained with B for his farm.

BAR'GAIN, v.t.

To sell; to transfer for a consideration; as, A bargained away his farm; a popular use of the word.

BAR-GAIN-EE', n.

The party in a contract who receives or agrees to receive the property sold. – Blackstone.

BAR'GAIN-ER, n.

The party in a contract who stipulates to sell and convey property to another. – Blackstone.

BARGE, n. [barj; D. bargie; It. and Sp. barca; Ir. barc. Barge, and bark or barque, a ship, are radically one word.]

1. A pleasure-boat; a vessel or boat of state, furnished with elegant apartments, canopies and cushions, equipped with a band of rowers, and decorated with flags and streamers, used by officers and magistrates. – Encyc.
2. A flat-bottomed vessel of burden, for loading and unloading ships. – Mar. Dict.

BARGE'COUP-LES, n.

In architecture, a beam mortised into another, to strengthen the building. – Encyc.

BARGE-COURSE', n.

In bricklaying, a part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable or kirkinhead. – Encyc.

BARGE'MAN, n.

The man who manages a barge.

BARGE'MAS-TER, n.

The proprietor of a barge, conveying goods for hire. – Blackstone.

BARG'ER, n.

The manager of a barge.

BA-RIL'LA, n. [Sp.]

1. A plant cultivated in Spain for its ashes, from which the purest kind of mineral alkali is obtained; used in making glass and soap, and in bleaching linen. The plant is cut and bud in heaps, and burnt, the salts running into a hole in the ground, where they form a vitrified lump. – Encyc.
2. The alkali procured from this plant.