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 BAH R A R ( 5M ) BARRATRY, in law, fignifies the fomenting quarrels fault; but generally trees cut with fix faces, which are eroded with battoons as long as a half-pike, bound and law-fuits. Barratry, in a fhip-mafter, is his cheating the own- about with iron at the feet. ers. If goods delivered on Ihip-board, are embezzled, BARRIER, in fortification, a kind of fence made at a all the mariners ought to contribute to the fatisfaftion pafiage, retrenchment, <fac. to dop up the entry thereof the party that loll his goods, by the maritime law; of, and is compofed of great dakes, about four or five and the caufe is to be tried in the admiralty. In a cafe, feet high, placed at the didance of eight or ten feet where a Ihip was infitred againft the barratry of the from one another, with tranfums, or over-thwart mailer, <bc. and the jury found that the Ihip was loll rafters, to dop either horfe or foot, that would enter by the fraud and negligence of the mailer, the court or rufii in with violence : In the middle is a moveable agreed, that the fraud was barratry, though not named bar of wood, that opens and fhuts at pleafure. A barrier is commonly fet up in a void fpace, between the in the covenant; but that negligence was not. BARREAUXAor/, a fortrefs of Savoy, having Mont- citadel and the town, in half moons, <bc. melian on the north, and Grenoble 0 on the fouth, fitu- Barrier has been alfo ufed to fignify a martial exercife of armed men, fighting together with fwords, within ated in j° 30' E. long, and 45 N. lat. BARREL, in commerce, a round veffel, extending rails or bars, which inclofed them. more in length than in breadth, made of wood, in BARRING a vein, in farriery, an operation performed upon the veins of a horfe’s legs, and other parts of his form of a little tun. See Tun. It ferves for holding feveral forts of merchandize. body, with intent to dop the courfe, and lefien the Barrel is alfo a meafure of liquids. The Englilh quantity of the malignant humours that prevail there. barrel, wine-meafure, contains the eighth part of a BARRISTER, in common law, a perfon qualified, and tun, tbe fourth part of a pipe, and one half of a hogf- impowered to plead and defend the caufe of clients, in head ; that is to fay, it contains thirty-one gallons the courts of judice. They are of two forts, the outand a half: A barrel, beer-meafure, contains thirty- ward, or outer-barriders, who, by their long dudy in lix gallons ; and, ale-meafure, thirty-two gallons. and knowledge of the law, which mud be for a term The barrel of beer, vinegar, or liquor preparing for of feven years at lead, are called to public praftice, vinegar, ought to contain thirty-four gallons, accord- and always plead without the bar. The inner-barriders are thofe, who, becaufe they ing to the llandard of the ale quart. Barrel alfo denotes a certain weight of feveral mer- are either attorney, follicitor, ferjeant, or council to chandizes, which differs according to the feveral com- the king, are allowed, out of refpeifl, the privilege of modities : A barrel of Effex butter weighs one hun- pleading within the bar. But at the rolls, and fome dred and fix pounds ; and of Suffolk butter, two hun- other inferior courts, all barriders are admitted withhundred and fifty-fix pounds. The barrel of herrings in the bar. Barriders, in the Englidi laws, amount to the fame ought to contain thirty two gallons wine meafure, which amount to about twenty-eight gallons old fland- with licentiates and advocates in other countries, and ard, containing about a thoufand herrings. The bar- courts, where the civil, foe. laws obtain. rel of falmon mud contain forty-two gallons. The BARROW, in the falt-works, wicker-cafes, almod in barrel of eels the fame. The barrel of foap mufl the fliape of a fugar-loaf, wherein the fait is put to drain. weigh two hundred and fifty-fix pounds. Barrel, in mechanics, a term given by watch-makers BARRULET, in heraldry, the fourth part of the bar, to the cylinder about which the fpring is wrapped : or the one half of the cloflet : An ulual bearing in And by gun-fmiths to the cylindrical tube of a gun, coat-armour. BARRULY, in heraldry, is when the field is divided piflol, <bc. through which the ball is difcharged. Barrel, in anatomy, a pretty large cavity behind the bar-ways, that is acrofs from fide to fide, into feveral tympanum of the ear, about four or five lines deep, parts. See Plate LI. fig. 7. BARRY, in heraldry, is when an efcutcheon is divided and five or fix wide. Thundering Barrels,' in the military art, are filled bar-ways, that is, acrofs from fide to fide, into an even with bombs, grenades, and other fire-works, to be number of partitions, confiding of two or more tinctures, interchangeably difpofed : It is to be exprelfed rolled down a breach, BARRENNESS, the fame with flerility. See Ste- in the blazon by the word harry, and the number of pieces mud be fpecified ; ’ but if the divifions be odd, rility.BARRERA, in botany, a genus of the pentandria pen- the field mud be fird named, and the number of bars tagynia clafs. The calix has five divifions, and the exprefled. petals five, with long filiform claws. There is but Barry-bendy is when an efcutcheon is divided evenly, bar and bend-ways, by lines drawn tranfverfe and diaone fpecies, viz. the capenfis, a native of ^Ethiopia. interchangeably varying the timflures of which BARRI, ^ city of the kingdom of Naples, and capital gonal, it confids. See Plate LI. fig. 8. of a province of the fame name, fituated on the gulf Barry-pily is when a coat is divided by feveral lines of Venice, in 17° 40' E. long, and 40° 40' N. lat. BARRICADE, "a warlike defence, confiding of empty drawn obliquely from fide to fide, where they form barrels and fuch like veffels, filled with earth, dones, acute angles. comcarts, trees cut down, againd an enemy’s fhot, or af- BARTER, or Truck, is the exchanging of onemodity