n. [ See Barbarous. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A foreigner. [ Historical ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me. 1 Cor. xiv. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A man in a rude, savage, or uncivilized state. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A person destitute of culture. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity. “Thou fell barbarian.” Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. barbaricus foreign, barbaric, Gr. barbariko`s. ] 1. Of, or from, barbarian nations; foreign; -- often with reference to barbarous nations of east. “Barbaric pearl and gold.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to, or resembling, an uncivilized person or people; barbarous; barbarian; destitute of refinement. “Wild, barbaric music.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act or process of barbarizing; an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized.
Syn. -- barbarization. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

same as barbarize. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. barbarismus, Gr. barbarismo`s; cf. F. barbarisme. ] 1. An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A barbarous, cruel, or brutal action; an outrage. [ 1913 Webster ]

A heinous barbarism . . . against the honor of marriage. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An offense against purity of style or language; any form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Greeks were the first that branded a foreign term in any of their writers with the odious name of barbarism. G. Campbell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Barbarities [ From Barbarous. ] 1. The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Cruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Treating Christians with a barbarity which would have shocked the very Moslem. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A barbarous or cruel act. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Barbarism; impurity of speech. [ Obs. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the act or process of barbarizing; an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized.
Syn. -- barbarisation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Barbarized p. pr. & vb. n. Barbarizing ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To become barbarous. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ill habit . . . of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. F. barbariser, LL. barbarizare. ] To make barbarous. [ 1913 Webster ]

The hideous changes which have barbarized France. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Barium. ] (Chem.) Baryta. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Of or pertaining to barium; as, baric oxide. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; weight. ] (Physics) Of or pertaining to weight, esp. to the weight or pressure of the atmosphere as measured by the barometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. barrilla. ] 1. (Bot.) A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Com.) (a) The alkali produced from the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching purposes. (b) Impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant, or kelp. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

Copper barilla (Min.), native copper in granular form mixed with sand, an ore brought from Bolivia; -- called also Barilla de cobre. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., dim. of baril barrel. ] A little cask, or something resembling one. Smart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) Native sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular), also in granular form, and in compact massive forms resembling marble. It has a high specific gravity, and hence is often called heavy spar. It is a common mineral in metallic veins. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. See Barytone. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. bary`tonos; bary`s heavy + to`nos tone. ] 1. (Mus.) Grave and deep, as a kind of male voice. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Greek Gram.) Not marked with an accent on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. [ F. baryton: cf. It. baritono. ] 1. (Mus.) (a) A male voice, the compass of which partakes of the common bass and the tenor, but which does not descend as low as the one, nor rise as high as the other. (b) A person having a voice of such range. (c) The viola di gamba, now entirely disused. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Greek Gram.) A word which has no accent marked on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. bary`s heavy. ] (Chem.) One of the elements, belonging to the alkaline earth group; a metal having a silver-white color, and melting at a very high temperature. It is difficult to obtain the pure metal, from the facility with which it becomes oxidized in the air. Atomic weight, 137. Symbol, Ba. Its oxide called baryta. [ Rarely written barytum. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Some of the compounds of this element are remarkable for their high specific gravity, as the sulphate, called heavy spar, and the like. The oxide was called barote, by Guyton de Morveau, which name was changed by Lavoisier to baryta, whence the name of the metal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) An alkaloid resembling physostigmine and occurring with it in the calabar bean. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. (&unr_;) &unr_; a treatise of Archimedes on finding the center of gravity, fr. &unr_; gravitating toward the center; &unr_; center + &unr_; weight. ] Relating to the center of gravity, or to the process of finding it. [ 1913 Webster ]

Centrobaric method (Math.), a process invented for the purpose of measuring the area or the volume generated by the rotation of a line or surface about a fixed axis, depending upon the principle that every figure formed by the revolution of a line or surface about such an axis has for measure the product of the line or surface by the length of the path of its center of gravity; -- sometimes called theorem of Pappus, also, incorrectly, Guldinus's properties. See Barycentric calculus, under Calculus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cibaruus, fr. cibus food. ] Pertaining to food; edible. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. cinabarin. ] Pertaining to, or resembling, cinnabar; consisting of cinnabar, or containing it; as, cinnabarine sand. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. L. Columbaria /plu> [ L. See Columbary. ] (Rom. Antiq.) (a) A dovecote or pigeon house. (b) A sepulchral chamber with niches for holding cinerary urns. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. courbaril, from a South American word. ] See Animé, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A herbalist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A herbalist. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. E. Herbariums L. Herbaria [ LL., fr. L. herba. See Herb, and cf. Arbor, Herbary. ] 1. A collection of dried specimens of plants, systematically arranged. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A book or case for preserving dried plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Herborize. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ hyper- + baric. ] 1. Of, pertaining to, or using a pressure that is greater than normal atmospheric pressure; as, a hyperbaric chamber, where divers may decompress slowly to avoid the bends. [ PJC ]

2. Of, pertaining to, or using an oxygen pressure that is greater than that at normal atmospheric pressure; as, a hyperbaric tent to provide additional oxygen to patients with breathing difficulty. [ PJC ]

a. (Phys. Geog.) Denoting equal pressure; as, an isobaric line; specifically, of or pertaining to isobars. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being equal in weight, especially in atmospheric pressure. Also, the theory, method, or application of isobaric science. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. meta- + cinnabar. ] (Min.) Sulphide of mercury in isometric form and black in color. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To reduce again to barbarism. -- Re*bar`ba*ri*za"tion n. [1913 Webster]

Germany . . . rebarbarized by polemical theology and religious wars. Sir W. Hamilton. [1913 Webster]

{ or , n. (Chem.) Chrysophanic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Half barbarous; partially civilized. -- n. One partly civilized. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Half barbarous or uncivilized; as, semibarbaric display. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being half barbarous or uncivilized. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. Sybarita, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_;, a city in Italy, noted for the effeminacy and voluptuousness of its inhabitants; cf. F. Sybarite. ] A person devoted to luxury and pleasure; a voluptuary. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. Sybariticus, Gr. &unr_;. ] Of or pertaining to the Sybarites; resembling the Sybarites; luxurious; wanton; effeminate. “Sybaritic dinners.” Bp. Warburton. “Sybaritical cloistres.” Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Luxuriousness; effeminacy; wantonness; voluptuousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Syllabaria [ NL. ] A syllabary. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to words; verbal. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who coins words; a neologist. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Southey gives himself free scope as a verbarian. Fitzed. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. L. verbum word. ] A game in word making. See Logomachy, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]