Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BAR, v.t.

1. To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.
2. To hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; as, to bar the entrance of evil.
3. To prevent; to exclude; to hinder; to make impracticable; as, the distance between us bars our intercourse. In this sense, the phrase is often varied, thus: the distance bars me from his aid, or bars him from my aid.
4. To prohibit; to restrain or exclude by express or implied prohibition; as, the statute bars my right; the law bars the use of poisoned weapons.
5. To obstruct, prevent or hinder by any moral obstacle; as, the right is barred by time, or by statute; a release bars the plaintif's recovery.
6. To except; to exclude by exception; as, I bar to-night. – Shak.
7. To cross with stripes of a different color.
8. To bar a rein, in farriery, is an operation upon the legs of a horse, or other parts, to stop malignant humors. This is done by opening the skin above a vein, disengaging it and tying it both above and below, and striking between the two ligatures. – Johnson.
9. To adorn with trappings; a contraction of barb. [See Barb.] – Drayton. Haywood.