Definition of barley

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Barley (n.) A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky..

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Spica :: Spica (n.) A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley..
Falter :: Falter (v. t.) To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley..
Stubbled :: Stubble (n.) The stumps of wheat, rye, barley, oats, or buckwheat, left in the ground; the part of the stalk left by the scythe or sickle..
Hummel :: Hummel (v. t.) To separate from the awns; -- said of barley.
Raise :: Raise (v. t.) To cause to grow; to procure to be produced, bred, or propagated; to grow; as, to raise corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle..
Gin :: Gin (n.) A strong alcoholic liquor, distilled from rye and barley, and flavored with juniper berries; -- also called Hollands and Holland gin, because originally, and still very extensively, manufactured in Holland. Common gin is usually flavored with turpentine..
Hordein :: Hordein (n.) A peculiar starchy matter contained in barley. It is complex mixture.
Sprit :: Sprit (v. t.) To sprout; to bud; to germinate, as barley steeped for malt..
Yumas :: Yumas (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians native of Arizona and the adjacent parts of Mexico and California. They are agricultural, and cultivate corn, wheat, barley, melons, etc..
Awn :: Awn (n.) The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista..
Scone :: Scone (n.) A cake, thinner than a bannock, made of wheat or barley or oat meal..
Quass :: Quass (n.) A thin, sour beer, made by pouring warm water on rye or barley meal and letting it ferment, -- much used by the Russians..
Caryopsis :: Caryopsis (n.) A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc..
Barley-bree :: Barley-bree (n.) Liquor made from barley; strong ale.
Beer :: Beer (n.) A fermented liquor made from any malted grain, but commonly from barley malt, with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor..
Bigg :: Bigg (n.) Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind..
Porridge :: Porridge (n.) A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc..
Couch :: Couch (v. t.) A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt..
Firlot :: Firlot (n.) A dry measure formerly used in Scotland; the fourth part of a boll of grain or meal. The Linlithgow wheat firlot was to the imperial bushel as 998 to 1000; the barley firlot as 1456 to 1000.
Boll :: Boll (n.) A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels..
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