BPage 43
- English Word Barometrical Definition Pertaining to the barometer; made or indicated by a barometer; as, barometric changes; barometrical observations.
- English Word Barometrically Definition By means of a barometer, or according to barometric observations.
- English Word Barometrograph Definition A form of barometer so constructed as to inscribe of itself upon paper a record of the variations of atmospheric pressure.
- English Word Barometry Definition The art or process of making barometrical measurements.
- English Word Barometz Definition The woolly-skinned rhizoma or rootstock of a fern (Dicksonia barometz), which, when specially prepared and inverted, somewhat resembles a lamb; -- called also Scythian lamb.
- English Word Baron Definition A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount.
- English Word Baron Definition A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife.
- English Word Baronage Definition The whole body of barons or peers.
- English Word Baronage Definition The dignity or rank of a baron.
- English Word Baronage Definition The land which gives title to a baron.
- English Word Baroness Definition A baron's wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title in her own right; as, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
- English Word Baronet Definition A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners.
- English Word Baronetage Definition State or rank of a baronet.
- English Word Baronetage Definition The collective body of baronets.
- English Word Baronetcy Definition The rank or patent of a baronet.
- English Word Baronial Definition Pertaining to a baron or a barony.
- English Word Baronies Definition of Barony
- English Word Barony Definition The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron.
- English Word Barony Definition In Ireland, a territorial division, corresponding nearly to the English hundred, and supposed to have been originally the district of a native chief. There are 252 of these baronies. In Scotland, an extensive freehold. It may be held by a commoner.
- English Word Baroque Definition In bad taste; grotesque; odd.
- English Word Baroscope Definition Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.
- English Word Baroscopic Definition Alt. of Baroscopical
- English Word Baroscopical Definition Pertaining to, or determined by, the baroscope.
- English Word Barouche Definition A four-wheeled carriage, with a falling top, a seat on the outside for the driver, and two double seats on the inside arranged so that the sitters on the front seat face those on the back seat.
- English Word Barouchet Definition A kind of light barouche.
- English Word Barpost Definition A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field.
- English Word Barque Definition Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
- English Word Barque Definition A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
- English Word Barque Definition Same as 3d Bark, n.
- English Word Barracan Definition A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant.