BPage 34
- English Word Bar Definition Anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
- English Word Bar Definition A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.
- English Word Bar Definition Any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons.
- English Word Bar Definition The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in open court.
- English Word Bar Definition The place in court where prisoners are stationed for arraignment, trial, or sentence.
- English Word Bar Definition The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession.
- English Word Bar Definition A special plea constituting a sufficient answer to plaintiff's action.
- English Word Bar Definition Any tribunal; as, the bar of public opinion; the bar of God.
- English Word Bar Definition A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept.
- English Word Bar Definition An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field.
- English Word Bar Definition A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color.
- English Word Bar Definition A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.
- English Word Bar Definition The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
- English Word Bar Definition The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the center of the sole.
- English Word Bar Definition A drilling or tamping rod.
- English Word Bar Definition A vein or dike crossing a lode.
- English Word Bar Definition A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
- English Word Bar Definition A slender strip of wood which divides and supports the glass of a window; a sash bar.
- English Word Bar Definition To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.
- English Word Bar Definition To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up.
- English Word Bar Definition To except; to exclude by exception.
- English Word Bar Definition To cross with one or more stripes or lines.
- English Word Bar iron Definition See under Iron.
- English Word Barb Definition Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
- English Word Barb Definition A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners.
- English Word Barb Definition Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen.
- English Word Barb Definition The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
- English Word Barb Definition A bit for a horse.
- English Word Barb Definition One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane. See Feather.
- English Word Barb Definition A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States; -- also improperly called whiting.