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  • English Word Barrow Definition A wicker case, in which salt is put to drain.
  • English Word Barrow Definition A hog, esp. a male hog castrated.
  • English Word Barrow Definition A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead; a tumulus.
  • English Word Barrow Definition A heap of rubbish, attle, etc.
  • English Word Barrowist Definition A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.
  • English Word Barrulet Definition A diminutive of the bar, having one fourth its width.
  • English Word Barruly Definition Traversed by barrulets or small bars; -- said of the field.
  • English Word Barry Definition Divided into bars; -- said of the field.
  • English Word Barse Definition The common perch. See 1st Bass.
  • English Word Bartender Definition A barkeeper.
  • English Word Barter Definition To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck.
  • English Word Barter Definition To trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; -- sometimes followed by away; as, to barter away goods or honor.
  • English Word Barter Definition The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods.
  • English Word Barter Definition The thing given in exchange.
  • English Word Bartered Definition of Barter
  • English Word Barterer Definition One who barters.
  • English Word Bartering Definition of Barter
  • English Word Bartery Definition Barter.
  • English Word Barth Definition A place of shelter for cattle.
  • English Word Bartholomew tide Definition Time of the festival of St. Bartholomew, August 24th.
  • English Word Bartizan Definition A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.
  • English Word Bartlett Definition A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchretien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.
  • English Word Barton Definition The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself.
  • English Word Barton Definition A farmyard.
  • English Word Bartram Definition See Bertram.
  • English Word Barway Definition A passage into a field or yard, closed by bars made to take out of the posts.
  • English Word Barwise Definition Horizontally.
  • English Word Barwood Definition A red wood of a leguminous tree (Baphia nitida), from Angola and the Gaboon in Africa. It is used as a dyewood, and also for ramrods, violin bows and turner's work.
  • English Word Barycentric Definition Of or pertaining to the center of gravity. See Barycentric calculus, under Calculus.
  • English Word Baryphony Definition Difficulty of speech.