Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.

BAR'I-TONE, n.

See BARYTONE.

BA'RI-UM, n.

The metallic basis of baryta, which is an oxyd of barium. Davy. Barium is susceptible of two degrees of oxygenation, the first is called protoxyd of baryta; carbonated, it is barolite. [Barytum is the legitimate word.]

BARK, or BARQUE, n. [Ir. barc; Fr. barque; Russ. barka; It. and Sp. barca.]

A small ship; but appropriately, a ship which carries three masts without a mizzen top-sail. The English mariners in the coal trade, apply this name to a broad-sterned ship without a figure-head. Encyc. Mar. Dict. Water-barks, in Holland, are small vessels for conveying fresh water from place to place, the hold of which is filled with water. Encyc.

BARK, n. [Dan. bark; Sw. barck; G. borke; probably from stripping, separating.]

1. The exterior covering of a tree, corresponding to the skin of an animal. This is composed of the cuticle or epidermis, the outer bark, or cortex, and the inner bark, or liber. The rough broken matter on bark is, by the common people of New England, called ross.
2. By way of distinction, Peruvian Bark.

BARK, v.i. [Sax. beorcan, byrcan, to bark.]

1. To make the noise of dogs when they threaten or pursue.
2. To clamor at; to pursue with unreasonable clamor or reproach. It is followed by at. To bark at sleeping fame. Spenser.

BARK, v.t.

To peel; to strip off bark. Also to cover or inclose with bark.

BARK'-BAR-ED, a.

Stripped of the bark. Mortimer.

BARK'-BOUND, a.

Having the bark too firm or close, as with trees. This disease is cured by slitting the bark. Encyc.

BARK'ED, pp.

Stripped of the bark; peeled; also covered with bark.