Index of English words, starting with "ba"

(1) - Barratry (n.) The crime of a judge who is influenced by bribery in pronouncing judgment.
(2) - Barratry (n.) A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of the mariners, to the injury of the owner of the ship or cargo, and without his consent. It includes every breach of trust committed with dishonest purpose, as by running away with the ship, sinking or deserting her, etc., or by embezzling the cargo.
(3) - Barratry (n.) The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels.

(1) - Barred (imp. & p. p.) of Bar

(1) - Barrel (v. t.) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
(2) - Barrel (n.) The hollow basal part of a feather.
(3) - Barrel (n.) A jar.
(4) - Barrel (n.) A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
(5) - Barrel (n.) A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.
(6) - Barrel (n.) The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31/ gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds.
(7) - Barrel (n.) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads.

(1) - Barren (n.) Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile.
(2) - Barren (n.) A tract of barren land.
(3) - Barren (a.) Mentally dull; stupid.
(4) - Barren (a.) Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
(5) - Barren (a.) Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; /rile.
(6) - Barren (a.) Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.