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BAMBOO, băm-bỏ. s. An Indian plant of the reed kind.

TO BAMBOOZLE, bâm-bỏô'zl. v. a. To deceive, to impose upon. A low word. BAMBOOZLER, bâm-boo'zlůr. s. A

cheat.

Bay, bắn. s. Public notice given of
any thing; a curse; excommunication;
interdiction; Ban of the Empire, a pub-
lie censure by which the privileges of any
German prince are suspended.
BANANA TREE, bâ-nà'ná-trèè. s. Plan-

tain.

BAND, bånd. s. A tye, a bandage; a chain by which any animal is kept in restraint; any union or connexion; any thing bound round another; a company of persons joined together; a particular kind of neckcloth worn chiefly by the clergy: in architecture, any flat low moulding, facia, face, or plinth.

BANEFULNESS, båne'ful-nês. s. Poison-
ousness; destructiveness.
BANEWORT, bane'wårt. s. (88). Dead-
ly nightshade.

TO BANG, bång. v. a. (409). To beat;
to thump; to handle roughly.
BANG, báng. s. A blow, a thump.
To BANISH, bân'nish. v. a. To con-
demn to leave his own country; to drive
away.

BANISHER, bân'nish-ůr. s. He that
forces another from his own country.
BANISHMENT, bân'nish-mênt. s. The
act of banishing another; the state of being
banished; exile.

BANK, bánk. s. (409). The earth rising on each side of a water; any heap of earth piled up; a bench of rowers; a place where money is laid up to be called for occasionally; the company of persons concerned in managing a bank. To BAND, bånd. v. a. To unite toge-To BANK, bânk. v. a. ther into one body or troop; to bind over with a band.

BANDAGE, bân'didje. s. (90). Some-
thing bound over another; the fillet or rol-
ler wrapped over a wounded member.
BANDBOX, band'bóks. s. A slight box
used for bands and other things of small
weight.
BANDELET, ban'de-let. s. Any flat
moulding or filet.
BANDIT, bân'dit.
BANDITTO, bản dit tỏ.

lawed robber.
BANDITTI, ban-dit'tè. s.

of outlawed robbers.

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S. An out

A company

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To lay up mo

ney in a bank; to enclose with banks. BANK-BILL, bank'bill. s. A note for money laid up in a bank, at the sight of which the money is paid. BANKER, bânk'ůr. s. (98). One that trafficks in money.

BANKRUPT, bânk'rupt. a. In debt beyond the power of payment.

BANKRUPTCY, bánh rúp-sẻ. s. (472).

The state of a man broken, or bankrupt; the act of declaring one's self bankrupt. BANNER, bân'nůr. s. (98). A flag; a standard; a streamer borne at the end of a lance.

BANNERET, bân'nûr-êt. s. A knight

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(559)-Fate, får, fåll, fât;-mè, mét;-pine, pin;

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BANTLING, bánt'ling. s. A little child. BAPTISM, baptizm. s. Baptism is given by water, and that prescript form of

words which the church of Christ doth use: baptism is often taken in Scripture for sufferings.

BAPTISMAL, báp-tiz'mål. a. Of or pertaining to baptism.

BAPTIST, baptist. s. He that administers baptism.

BAPTISTERY, båp'tis-tůr-e. s. (555).

The place where the sacrament of baptism is administered.

To BAPTISE, båp-tize'. v. a.

Το christen; to administer the sacrament of baptism.

BAPTIZER, bâp-ti'zůr. s. (98). One that christens; one that administers bap

tism.

BAR, bår. s. (77). A piece of wood laid cross a passage to hinder entrance; a bolt to fasten a door; any obstacle; a rock or bank at the entrance of a harbour; any thing used for prevention; the place where causes of law are tried; an enclosed place in a tavern where the housekeeper sits: in law, a peremptory exception against a demand or plea: any thing by which the structure is held together: bars in music, are strokes drawn perpendicularly across the lines of a piece of music, used to regulate the beating or measure of musical tinie. TO BAR, bår. v. a. To fasten or shut any thing with a bolt, or bar; to binder, to ob struct; to prevent; to shut ont from; to exclude from a claim; to prohibit; to except; to hinder a suit.

BARB, bårb. s. Any thing that grows in the place of the beard; the points that stand backward in an arrow; the armour for horses.

BARB, barb. s. A Barbary horse.
To BARB, bårb. v. a. To shave, to

dress out the beard; to furnish the horse with armour; to jag arrows with books. BARBACAN, bår'bâ-kân s. A fortification placed before the walls of a town; an opening in the wall through which the

guns are levelled.

BARBADOES CHERRY, bår-ba'düz-tsher'

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-no, move, nor, nôt ;-tube, tub, båll ;-dil;-pound;-thin, THIS. BAREFACEDNESS, båre-fàste'nès. s. Effrontery; assurance; audaciousness. (365). BAREFOOT, båre'füt. a. Without shoes. BAREFOOTED, båre'fut-êd. a. Without

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of barley.

BARM, barm. s. Yest, the ferment put

into drink to make it work.

BARMY, bar'me. a. Containing barm. BARN, barn. s. A place or house for laying up any sort of grain, hay, or straw. BARNACLE, bårná-kl. s. (405). A bird like a goose, fabulously supposed to grow on trees; a species of shell fish. BAROMETER, bá-rom'mè-tür. s. (518). A machine for measuring the weight of the atmosphere, and the variations in it, in or der chiefly to determine the changes of

the weather.

BAROMETRICAL, bâr-ó-met'trẻ-kâl. a. Relating to the barometer. (509) (515). BARON, bár rûn. s. (166). A degree of nobility next to a viscount; baron is one

of the judges in the court of exchequer there are also barons of the cinque ports, that have places in the lower house of parliament: baron is used in law for the husband in relation to his wife.

BARONAGE, bar'růn-ådje. s. (90). The dignity of a baron.

BARONESS, bâr'rûn-ês. s. (557). A baron's lady.

BARONET, bar'růn-êt. s. (537). The lowest degree of honour that is hereditary: it is below a baron, and above a knight. BARONY, bâr'růn-ẻ. s. (557). That ho

nour or lordship that gives title to a baron. BAROSCOPE, bâr'ro-skópe. s. An instrument to show the weight of the atmosphere.

BARRACAN, bârʼrâ-kân. s. A strong

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(559)-Fate, får, fåll, fát;-mè, mêt ;-pine, pln;

ed this word in two syllables, with the accent on the last, as if written bar-réer. "Twixt that and reason what a nice barrier! "For ever sep'rate, yet for ever near."

Essay on Man, Ep. i. v. 215. And yet in another part of his works he places the accent on the first syllable, as we always hear it in prose.'

"Safe in the love of Heav'n an ocean flows
"Around our realm, a barrier from the foes."

BARRISTER, bâr'ris-tůr. s. A person
qualified to plead the causes of clients in
the courts of justice.
BARROW, bar'rów. s. Any carriage
moved by the hand, as a hand-barrow.
BARSHOT, bar'shôt. s. Two bullets or
half-bullets joined by a bar, and used
chiefly at sea to cut down the masts and
rigging of ships.

To BARTER, bårʼtůr. v. n. (98). To
traffick by exchanging one commodity for

another.

To BARTER, bar'tůr. v. a. To give
any thing in exchange.
BARTER, bår'tůr. s. The act or prac-

tice of trafficking by exchange.
BARTERER, bår'tür-år. s. He that
trafficks by exchange.
BARTERY, bar'tür-ré. s. (555).
change of commodities.

Ex

BARTRAM, bår'trâm. s. A plant, pellitory.

BARYTONE, bar'ê-tône. s.

A word with the grave accent on the last syllable. If the inspector does not know what is meant by the grave accent, it may be necessary to inform him, that writers on the Greek accent tell us that every syllable which has not the acute accent has the grave; and as there could but be one syllable acuted in that language, the rest must necessarily be grave. What these accents are has puzzled the learned so much that they seem neither to understand each other nor themselves; but it were to be wished they had kept this distinction into acute and grave out of our own language, as it is impossible to annex any clear ideas to it, except we consider the grave accent merely as the absence of the acute, which reduces it to no accent at all. If we di

vide the voice into its two leading inflections, the rising and falling, and call the former the acute and the latter the grave, we can annex distinct ideas to these words: and perhaps it is an ignorance of this dis

tinction of speaking sounds, and confounding them with high and low, or loud and soft, that occasions the confusion we meet with in writers on this subject.-See Ele

ments of Elocution, page 60. Also observations on the Greek and Latin Accent and Quantity, at the end of the Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek and Latin Proper Nanes. BASALTES, bâ-sâl'těz. s. A kind of marble, never found in layers, but standing upright. Ash.

BASE, base. a. Mean, vile, worthless; disingenuous, illiberal, ungenerous; of low station, of mean account; base-born, born out of wedlock: applied to metals, without value: applied to sounds, deep, grave. BASE-BORN, båse'born. a. Born out of wedlock.

BASE-COURT, båse'kort. s. Lower court. BASE-MINDED, båse-mind'êd. a. Mean spirited.

BASE-VIOL, båse-vi'ůl. s. (166). An instrument used in concerts for the base sound.

BASE, base. s. The bottom of any thing; the pedestal of a statue; the bottom of a cone; stockings; the place from which racers or tilters run; the string that gives a base sound; an old rustick play.

BASELY, base'lè. ad. Meanly, dis

honourably; in bastardy, as basely born. BASENESS, båse'nês. s. Meanness, vileness; vileness of metal; bastardy; deepness of sound.

BASHAW, bâsh-åw'. s. Among the

Turks, the viceroy of a province. BASHFUL, bash'fül. a. Modest, shamefaced, shy.

Mo

BASHFULLY, båsh'fùl-lé. ad. Timor-
ously, modestly.
BASHFULNESS, bash'fül-nês. s.
desty, foolish or rustick shame,
BASIL, bazil. s. The name of a plant.
BASILICA, ba-zil'è-kâ. s. The middle
vein of the arm.
BASILICA, bâ-zil'è-ká. s.

vein.

BASILICK, `bâ-zîl'lik. a.

the basilica.

BASILICK, bâ-zil'lik. 9.

vein; a large hall.

The basilick

Belonging to

The basilick

BASILIKON, ba-zilê-kôn s.

An oint

ment cailed also tetrapharmacon. BASILISK, bâz'è-lisk. s. A kind of serpent, a cockatrice, said to kill by looking. He is ca 1 d Basilisk, or little king, from a comb or crest on his head; a species of

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nở, môve, nor, nốt ;—tube, tủb, bull ;bil ;pound ;—thin, THIS.
BASTION, bâstshůn. S. (291).

rocks; any hollow place capacious of li-
quids; a dock for repairing and building
ships; Basins of a Balance, the same with
the scales.

BASIS, ba'sis. s. The foundation of any
thing; the lowest of the three principal parts
of a column; that on which any thing is
raised; the pedestal; the ground-work.
TO BASK, båsk. v. a. (79). To warm
by laying out in the heat.
BASK, bâsk. v. n.

receive heat.

To lie in a place to

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huge mass of earth, usually faced with sods, standing out from a rampart; a bul wark.

BAT, bât. s.
BAT, bất. s.

A heavy stick.

An animal having the body of a mouse, and the wings of a bird, not with feathers, but with a sort of skin which is extended. It brings forth its young as mice do, and suckles them. BAT-FOWLING, bât'foù-ling. s.

catching in the night-time. BATABLE, bà'tå-bl. a. (405).

Bird

Disputa

ble. Batable ground seems to be the ground heretofore in question, whether it belonged to England or Scotland. BATCH, bâtsh. s. The quantity of bread baked at a time; any quantity made at

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BATH, båth. s. (78). A Bath is either
hot or cold, either of art or nature; a ves-
sel of hot water, in which another is pla-
ced that requires a softer heat than the na-
ked fire; a sort of Hebrew measure, con-
taining seven gallons and four pints.
To BATHE, bathe. v. a. (467). To wash
in a bath; to supple or soften by the out-
ward application of warm liquors; to wash
with any thing.

To BATHE, båthe. v. n.

water.

To be in the

BATING, ba'ting. prep. (410). Ex

cept.

BATLET, bât'lét. s. A square piece of wood used in beating linen.

|BAToon, ba-tỏỏn.s.

A staff or club;

a truncheon or marshal's staff.

BATTAILOUS, bât'tà-lus. a. Warlike,
with military appearance.
BATTALIA, bât-tále'yâ. s. (272). The

order of battle.

BATTALION, bât-tâl'yûn. s. (272) (507).
A division of an army, a troop, a body of
forces; an army.

To BATTEN, bat'tn. v. a. (103). To
fatten, to make fat; to fertilize.
To BATTEN, bât'tn. v. n. (103). To

grow fat.

To BATTER, bât'tůr. v. a. (98). To beat, to beat down; to wear with beating; to wear out with service.

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