Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BAR-BA'RI-AN, n. [L. barbarus; Gr. βαρβαρος; Ir. barba, or beorb; Russ. varvar; Ch. ברבר. See Class Br, Nos. 3 and 7. The sense is, foreign, wild, fierce.]

1. A man in his rude, savage state; an uncivilized person. Denham.
2. A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity. Philips.
3. A foreigner. The Greeks and Romans denominated most foreign nations barbarians; and many of these were less civilized than themselves, or unacquainted with their language, laws and manners. But with them the word was less reproachful than with us.

BAR-BAR'IC, a. [L. barbaricus. See Barbarian. The Romans applied this word to designate things foreign; Barbaricum aurum, gold from Asia, Virg. Æn. 2. 504; Barbaricæ vestes, embroidered garments from foreign nations. English writers use the word in a like sense.]

Foreign; imported from foreign nations. Milton. Pope.

BAR'BA-RISM, n. [L. barbarismus. See Barbarian.]

1. An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. Dryden.
2. Ignorance of arts; want of learning. Shak. Dryden.
3. Rudeness of manners; savagism; incivility; ferociousness; a savage state of society. Spenser. Davies.
4. Brutality; cruelty; barbarity. [In this sense little used, being superseded by barbarity.]

BAR-BAR'I-TY, n. [See Barbarian.]

1. The manners of a barbarian; savageness; cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity. Clarendon.
2. Barbarism; impurity of speech. Dryden. Swift. [The use of the word in this sense, is now superseded by barbarism.]

BAR'BAR-IZE, v.t.

To make barbarous. Hideous changes have barbarized France. Burke.

BAR'BAR-OUS, a.

1. Uncivilized; savage; unlettered; untutored; ignorant; unacquainted with arts; stranger to civility of manners. Thou art a Roman; be not barbarous. Shak.
2. Cruel; ferocious; inhuman; as, barbarous usage. Clarendon.

BAR'BAR-OUS-LY, adv.

1. In the manner of a barbarian; ignorantly; without knowledge or arts; contrary to the rules of speech. Dryden.
2. In a savage, cruel, ferocious or inhuman manner.

BAR'BAR-OUS-NESS, n.

1. Rudeness or incivility of manners. Temple.
2. Impurity of language. Brerewood.
3. Cruelty; inhumanity; barbarity. Hall.

BAR'BA-RY, n.

A Barbary horse; a barb. Beaum.

BAR'BAS-TEL, n.

A bat with hairy lips.

BAR'BATE, or BAR'BA-TED, a. [L. barbatus, from barba. See Barb.]

In botany, bearded; also gaping or ringent. Barbatus flos, a gaping or ringent flower; synonymous with the ringent flower of Linnæus, and the labiate of Tournefort. Milne. Lee.

BARBE, n.

In the military art, to fire in barbe, is to fire the cannon over the parapet, instead of firing through the embrasures. Encyc.

BAR'BE-CUE, n.

In the West Indies, a hog roasted whole. It is, with us, used for an ox or perhaps any other animal dressed in like manner.

BAR'BE-CUE, v.t.

To dress and roast a hog whole, which is done by splitting the hog to the back bone, and roasting it on a gridiron; to roast any animal whole.

BARB'ED, pp. [See Barb.]

1. Furnished with armor; as, barbed steeds. Shak.
2. Bearded; jagged with hooks or points; as, barbed arrows.
3. Shaved or trimmed; having the beard dressed. Encyc.

BARB'EL, n. [L. barba; Fr. barbeau; D. barbeel.]

1. A fish of the genus Cyprinus, of the order of Abdominals. The mouth is toothless; the gill has three rays; the body is smooth and white. This fish is about three feet long, and weighs 18 pounds. It is a very coarse fish, living in deep still rivers and rooting like swine in the soft banks. Its dorsal fin is armed with a strong spine, sharply serrated, from which circumstance it probably received its name. Encyc.
2. A knot of superfluous flesh, growing in the channels of a horse's mouth; written also barble, or barb. Encyc. Farrier's Dict.

BARB'ER, n. [Persian barbr. See Barb.]

One whose occupation is to shave men, or to shave and dress hair. Shak.

BARB'ER, v.t.

To shave and dress hair. Shak.

BARB-ER-CHI-RUR'GEON, n.

One who joins the practice of surgery with that of a barber: a practice now unusual. A low practitioner of surgery. Wiseman.

BARB'ER-ESS, n.

A female barber. [Not used.]

BARB'ER-MONG-ER, n.

A man who frequents the barber's shop, or prides himself in being dressed by a barber; a fop. Shak.

BAR'BER-RY, n. [L. berberis; Ir. barbrog; D. berberis; Sp. berbero. In Eth. abarbar, is the nettle, Urtica major; in Amh., a species of thistle. Lud. Eth. 233; Amh. 39. It is probable therefore that this plant is so named from its spines or barbs. Its other name, Oxyacanthus, indicates a like origin.]

A plant of the genus Berberis, common in hedges; called in England, Pipperidge-bush. The berries are used in house-wifery, and are deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, especially the bark of the root. Miller. Encyc.

BAR'BET, n.

1. A name given by some French writers to a peculiar species of those worms which feed on the puceron or aphis. [See Aphis.] Encyc.
2. The Bucco, a genus of birds found in the warm climates of both continents.
3. A dog, so called from his long hair.

BAR-CO-RELLE', n.

A popular song or melody sung by Venetian gondoliers.

BARD, n. [W. bardh, or barz; Ir. bard; Fr. barde, a poet; Ir. bardas, a satire or lampoon; W. bardhas, philosophy; bardgan, a song.]

1. A poet and a singer among the ancient Celts; one whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men. The bards used an instrument of music like a lyre or guitar, and not only praised the brave, but reproached the cowardly. Diod. Sic. Am. Marcel. Lucan. Festus.
2. In modern usage, a poet. Pope. Dryden.