Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BAR'REN-NESS, n.

1. The quality of not producing its kind; want of the power of conception; applied to animals.
2. Unfruitfulness; sterility; infertility. The quality of not producing at all, or in small quantities; as, the barrenness of soil.
3. Want of invention; want of the power of producing any thing new; applied to the mind.
4. Want of matter; scantiness; as, the barrenness of a cause. Hooker.
5. Defect of emotion, sensibility or fervency; as, the barrenness of devotion. Taylor.

BAR'REN-WORT, n. [See Wort.]

A plant, constituting the genus Epimedium, of which the alpinum is the only species; a low herbaceous plant, with a creeping root, having many stalks, each of which has three flowers. Encyc.

BAR'RI-CADE, n. [Fr. barricade; It. barricata; from It. barrare, Sp. barrear, to bar.]

1. A fortification made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or any thing that will obstruct the progress of an enemy, or serve for defense or security against his shot.
2. Any bar or obstruction; that which defends.
3. In naval architecture, a strong wooden rail, supported by stanchions, extending across the foremost part of the quarter deck, in ships of war, and filled with rope, mats, pieces of old cable, and full hammocks, to prevent the effect of small shot in time of action. Encyc.

BAR'RI-CADE, v.t.

1. To stop up a passage; to obstruct.
2. To fortify with any slight work that prevents the approach of an enemy.

BAR-RI-CA'DO,

The same as BARRICADE.

BAR'RI-ER, n. [Fr. barriere; It. barriera; Sp. barrera; a barrier; Sp. barrear, to bar or barricade. See Bar.]

1. In fortification, a kind of fence made in a passage or retrenchment, composed of great stakes, with transoms or overthwart rafters, to stop an enemy. Encyc.
2. A wall for defense.
3. A fortress or fortified town on the frontier of a country. Swift.
4. Any obstruction; any thing which confines, or which hinders approach, or attack; as, constitutional barriers. Hopkinson.
5. A bar to mark the limits of a place; any limit, or boundary; a line of separation. Pope.

BARR'ING, ppr.

Making fast with a bar; obstructing; excluding; preventing; prohibiting; crossing with stripes.

BARR'ING-OUT, n.

Exclusion from a place; a boyish play. Swift.

BAR'RIS-TER, n. [from, bar.]

A counselor learned in the laws, qualified and admitted to plead at the bar, and to take upon him the defense of clients; answering to the advocate or licentiate of other countries. Anciently, barristers were called, in England, apprentices of the law. Outer barristers are pleaders without the bar, to distinguish them from inner barristers, benchers or readers, who have been some time admitted to plead within the bar, as the king's counsel are. Johnson. Encyc.

BAR'ROW, n.¹ [Sax. berewe; W. berva; Ger. bahre; D. berri; from the root of bear, to carry. See Bear.]

1. A light small carriage. A hand-barrow is a frame covered in the middle with boards, and borne by and between two men. A wheel-barrow, is a frame with a box, supported by one wheel, and rolled by a single man.
2. A wicker case, in salt works, where the salt is put to drain. Encyc.

BAR'ROW, n.² [Sax. berga, or beorgh, a hog; D. barg, a barrow hog.]

1. In England, a hog; and according to Ash, obsolete. Barrow-grease is hog's lard.
2. In America, a male hog castrated; a word in common use.

BAR'ROW, n.³ [Sax. beara, or bearewe, a grove.]

In the names of places, barrow is used to signify a wood or grove.

BAR'ROW, n.⁴ [Sax. beorg, a hill or hillock; byrgen, a tomb; G. and D. bergen, to conceal, to save.]

A hillock or mound of earth, intended as a repository of the dead. Such barrows are found in England, in the north of the European continent, and in America. They sometimes were formed of stones, and in England called cairns. The barrow answers to the tumulus of the Latins. [See Tomb.]

BARSE, n. [G. bars, D. baars.]

An English name for the common perch. Dict. of Nat. Hist.

BAR'SHOT, n. [See Bar and Shoot.]

Double-headed shot, consisting of a bar, with a half ball or round head at each end; used for destroying the masts and rigging in naval combat. Mar. Dict.

BAR'TER, n.

Tho act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; sometimes, perhaps, the thing given in exchange.

BAR'TER, v.i. [Sp. baratar; It. barattare, to exchange. The primary sense is probably to turn or change, and this gives the sense of deceiving, barratry, as well as of bartering. L. vario, verto. Class Br.]

To traffick or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred.

BAR'TER, v.t.

To give one thing for another in commerce. It is sometimes followed by away; as, to barter inlay goods or honor.

BAR'TER-ED, pp.

Given in exchange.

BAR'TER-ER, n.

One who trafficks by exchange of commodities.

BAR'TER-ING, ppr.

Trafficking or trading by an exchange of commodities.

BAR'TER-Y, n.

Exchange of commodities in trade. [Not used.] Camden.

BAR-THOL'O-MEW'S-TIDE, n.

The term near St. Bartholomew's day. Shak.

BAR'TON, n. [Sax. bere-ton, barley-town.]

The demain lands of a manor; the manor itself; and sometimes the out-houses. Johnson. Blount.

BAR'TRAM, n. [L. pyrethrum; Gr. πυρ, fire.]

A plant; pellitory. Bailey. Johnson.