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BAR B A R ( 51 o ) BAPTISMAL, fomething belonging to baptifm; thus, Bar, Barra, in qommerce. See Barra. we fay, baptrfmal vonv, fonts, prcfnts. See. Bar, or Bar-le-duc, in geography, a duchy belongBAPTISTS, in church-hiftory, the name by which the ing to France, lying north-wed of Lorrain, on both Anabaptifts love to diftinguilh themfelves. See Ana- fides the river Maefe, whereof Bar-le-duc is the prinbaptists. cipal town; in 50 15' E. long, and 48° 40' N. lat. BAPTISTERY, in eccleftaftical writers, a place in which Bar is alfo a town of Podolia, in Poland; fituated in - the ceremony of baptifm is performed. In the an- 28° E long, and 48° 20'N. lat cient church, it was one of the exedrae, or buildings, Bar is alfo the name of two towns in France; the one . diftinft from the church itfelf, and confided of a porch in Champaign, upon the Aube; and the other in Buror anti-room, where the perfons to be baptized made gundy, upon the Seine. . their confeffion of faith ; and an inner room where the BARABINSKOI, a country of Tartary, tributary to the ceremony of baptifm was performed. Mufcovites. BAR, in a general fenfe, denotes a flender piece of wood, BAR-MASTER, among miners, the perfon who keeps or iron, for keeping things clofe together. the gage, or dilh, for meafuring the ore. Bar, in courts of juftice, an inclofure made with a drong BAR SHOT. See Shot. partition of timber, where the council are placed to BARACKS, or Barracks. See Barracks. plead caufes. It is alfo applied to the benches where BARACOA, a tpwn on the north-ead part of the ifland0 the lawyers or advocates are feated, becaufe anciently of Cuba in North America, in 76° W. long, and 21 there was a bar to feparate the pleaders from the at- N. lat. torneys and others. Hence our lawyers, who are BAR ALIPTON, among logicians, a term denoting the called to the bar, or licenfed to plead, are termed ba- fird indirud mode of the fird figure of fyllogifm. A nders, an appellation equivalent to licentiate in other fyllogifm in biralipton, is when the two fird propofitions are general, and the third particular, the middle countries. Bar, in law, a plea of a defendant, which is faid to be term being the fubjeA in the fird propofition, and the predicate in the fecond. fafficient to dedroy the plaintiff’s aftion. Bar, in heraldry, an ordinary in form of the fefs, but BAR ALLOTS, in church-hidory, a feft of heretics at Bologna in Italy, who had all things in common, even much lefs. It differs from the fefs only in its narrownefs; and their wives and children. Thei? facility in complying with all manner of debauin this, that the bar may be placed in any part of the field, whereas the fefs is confined to a fingle place. chery, made them get the name obedientes, compliers. BARANCA, a port-town of Terra Firma, in South See Plate LI. fig. 4. Bar-gemel, that is a double bar, called by the French America; fituated about 30 miles up the river Grande, jumtlles, and by the Latin writers jugarine fafciolte, in 7j° 30' W. long, and 110 IN. lat. and jiijlitid: bijuges, is a diminutive of the fefs. See BARANGI, officers among the Greeks of the lower empire. Cujas calls them in Latin proiettores, and others Plate LI. fig. 5. Bar, in the menage, the highed part of that place of a give them the name offecurigeri. It was their bufihorfe’s mouth, fituated between the grinders and tufhes ; nefs to keep the keys of the city-gates, where the emfo that the part of the mouth which lies under and pe or refided. at the fide of the bars, retains the name of the gum. BAR ANWAHR, a town of Lower Hungary, not far , A horfe with fenfible bars has a fine light mouth, with from the Danube, in 20° E. long, and 46° 2d N. lat, BARAPICKLET, bread made of fine flour, and an even and firm appui. See Appui. TA Bar a vein, in farriery, is an operation perform- kneaded up with barm, which makes it very light and ed upon the veins of the legs of a horfe and other fpungy. Its form is round, about a hand-breadth. parts, with intent to dop the malignant humours. It BARATHRUM, in antiquity, a deep dark pit at Athens, is done by opening the fkin above it, difengaging it, into which condemned perfons were cad headlong. It and tying it both above and below, and driking be- had ftiarp fpikes at the top, that no man might efcape out, and others at the bottom to pierce and torment tween the two ligatures. Bar, in mufic, adroke drawn perpendicularly acrofs the fuch as were cad in. . lines of a piece of mufic, including between each two BARB, orBARBE, in commerce. See Barbe. a certain quantity or meafure of time, which is vari- BARBA, in botany, a word often ufed in compofition ous as the time of the mufic is either triple or com- with fome other, to form the^ trivial names of feveral mon. In common time, between each two bars is in- plants, as barba jovis, barba copra. See. cluded the meafure of four crotchets ; in triple, three. BARBACAN, or Barbican, an outer defence, or forThe principal ufe of bars is to regulate the beating of tification to a city or cadle, ufed efpecially as a fence to the city, or walls; alfo, an aperture made in the time, in a concert. See Time and Measure. Bar, in hydrograph ', denotes a bank of fand, or other wall of a fortrefs, to fire through upon the enemy. matter, whereby the mouth of a river is in a manner Barbacan is alfo ufed to denote a fort at the entrance of a bridge, or the outlet of a city, having a double choaked up. The term bar is alfo ufed for the drong beam wall with towers. wherewith the entrance of an harbour isfecured: This BARB ALIA, in botany, a genus of the didynamia angiofpermia. The calix confids of four divifions1 capfuls

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