Definition of bar

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Bar (n.) A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door..

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Face :: Face (v. t.) To cover with better, or better appearing, material than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc..
Gabionade :: Gabionade (n.) A structure of gabions sunk in lines, as a core for a sand bar in harbor improvements..
Glaring :: Glaring (a.) Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, a glaring crime..
Drawhead :: Drawhead (n.) The flanged outer end of a drawbar; also, a name applied to the drawgear..
Barbered :: Barbered (imp. & p. p.) of Barbe.
Score :: Score (n.) The original and entire draught, or its transcript, of a composition, with the parts for all the different instruments or voices written on staves one above another, so that they can be read at a glance; -- so called from the bar, which, in its early use, was drawn through all the parts..
Whippletree :: Whippletree (n.) The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces, or tugs, of a harness are fastened, and by which a carriage, a plow, or other implement or vehicle, is drawn; a whiffletree; a swingletree; a singletree. See Singletree..
Quinovin :: Quinovin (n.) An amorphous bitter glucoside derived from cinchona and other barks. Called also quinova bitter, and quinova..
-barrelled :: -barrelled (a.) Having two barrels; -- applied to a gun.
Self-registering :: Self-registering (a.) Registering itself; -- said of any instrument so contrived as to record its own indications of phenomena, whether continuously or at stated times, as at the maxima and minima of variations; as, a self-registering anemometer or barometer..
Gabion :: Gabion (n.) An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc., as in harbor improvement..
Peduncle :: Peduncle (n.) A sort of stem by which certain shells and barnacles are attached to other objects. See Illust. of Barnacle.
Hinder :: Hinder (a.) To prevent or embarrass; to debar; to shut out.
Gothicize :: Gothicize (v. t.) To make Gothic; to bring back to barbarism.
Arrow :: Arrow (n.) A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow..
Cost :: Cost (v. t.) The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit..
Gaberdine :: Gaberdine (n.) See Gabardine.
Sprigged :: Sprig (n.) A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point.
Bulbar :: Bulbar (a.) Of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbar paralysis..
Brewsterite :: Brewsterite (n.) A rare zeolitic mineral occurring in white monoclinic crystals with pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, baryta, and strontia..
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