<B>barfly, </B>noun, pl. <B>-flies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) a person who frequents barrooms, especially one who drinks excessively. </DL>
<A NAME="bargain">
<B>bargain, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an agreement to trade or exchange; deal. <BR> <I>Ex. The boys made a bargain to exchange baseball gloves.</I> (SYN) contract; compact. <DD><B> 2. </B>a good trade or exchange, especially something offered for sale cheap or bought cheap. <BR> <I>Ex. This hat is a bargain at $3.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>any arrangement or deal considered as either advantageous or unprofitable or otherwise unfavorable. <BR> <I>Ex. That old car is a bad bargain at any price.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to try to get good terms; try to make a good deal. <BR> <I>Ex. For ten minutes she stood bargaining with the farmer for his vegetables.</I> (SYN) haggle. <DD><B> 2. </B>to make a bargain; come to terms. <BR> <I>Ex. A merchant bargained for it, and carried it off (Joseph Addison).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to try to get good terms for. <BR> <I>Ex. He bargained the trader down to a very good price.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to reach an advantageous agreement, especially by giving some guarantee. <BR> <I>Ex. He tried to bargain his boy out of trouble with the neighbors. I'll bargain he keeps his promise.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to trade. <BR> <I>Ex. Stealing only bargains one trouble for another.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>bargain for</B> (or <B>on</B>), </I>to be ready for; expect. <BR> <I>Ex. He hadn't bargained for rain and had left his umbrella at home.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>in</B> (or <B>into</B>) <B>the bargain,</B> </I>besides; also. <BR> <I>Ex. This dress shrank and it faded in the bargain.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>strike a bargain,</B> </I>to make a bargain; reach an agreement. <BR> <I>Ex. They finally struck a bargain: his mitt for two baseballs and a bat.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="bargainbasement">
<B>bargain basement,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a section of a department store, especially a floor below the street level, where relatively inexpensive goods are sold. </DL>
<B>bargain counter,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any table, stall, counter, or section where goods are sold at reduced prices. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) any place where things or ideas are freely exchanged. </DL>
<A NAME="bargainee">
<B>bargainee, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) the recipient in a bargain. </DL>
<A NAME="bargainer">
<B>bargainer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who bargains or stipulates. </DL>
<A NAME="bargainhunter">
<B>bargain hunter,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person who watches for bargains. <BR> <I>Ex. Auctions, with their well-known magnetism for chronic bargain hunters (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="bargaining">
<B>bargaining, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the act or process of coming to an agreement. <DD><B> 2. </B>discussion or debate for the purpose of reaching an agreement. <BR> <I>Ex. Bargaining between management and the labor union broke down.</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> having to do with negotiating a bargain. <BR> <I>Ex. a bargaining agent.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="bargainingchip">
<B>bargaining chip,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an advantage held by any of the parties in a negotiation. <BR> <I>Ex. Bargaining from strength calls for arms programs that can serve as bargaining chips to trade for concessions that the other side might not otherwise make (New York Times Magazine).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="bargainor">
<B>bargainor, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) a person who contracts to sell and convey property to another by bargain or sale. </DL>
<A NAME="barge">
<B>barge, </B>noun, verb, <B>barged,</B> <B>barging.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a large, strongly built, flat-bottomed boat for carrying freight. <BR> <I>Ex. The oil barge was towed from Syracuse to Buffalo on the Erie Canal.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a large boat used for excursions, pageants, and special occasions. <BR> <I>Ex. the royal barge.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a large motorboat or rowboat used by the officer commanding a flagship; launch. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Especially British.) a houseboat. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Archaic.) a small seagoing vessel. <DD><B> 6. </B>(U.S. Obsolete.) a large carriage. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to move clumsily like a barge. <BR> <I>Ex. He barged into the table and knocked the lamp over.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal.) to push oneself rudely; intrude. <BR> <I>Ex. Don't barge in where you're not wanted.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to carry by barge. </DL>
<A NAME="bargeboard">
<B>bargeboard, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a board placed flat along or under the overhanging, sloping edge of a gable roof, usually covering a rafter and often ornamented. </DL>
<A NAME="bargecouple">
<B>barge couple,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> one of the two rafters that support the barge course or overhanging portion at the end of a gable roof. </DL>
<A NAME="bargecourse">
<B>barge course,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the part of a gable roof projecting beyond the end wall. <DD><B> 2. </B>the range of shingles or tiles along the sloping edges of a gable roof. </DL>
<A NAME="bargedog">
<B>barge dog,</B> =schipperke.</DL>
<A NAME="bargee">
<B>bargee, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially British.) a bargeman. </DL>
<A NAME="bargello">
<B>bargello, </B>noun, pl. <B>-loes,</B> verb, <B>-loed,</B> <B>-loing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> an upright stitch used in needlework to produce patterns in zigzag or oblique lines. <BR> <I>Ex. The store also sells material for bargello, an Italian geometric pattern (Melody Cornett).</I> <DD><I>v.i., v.t. </I> to use this stitch; make such stitches on canvas. <BR> <I>Ex. To demonstrate his find, he ... pulled out a canvas that was in the midst of being bargelloed (Harper's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="bargeman">
<B>bargeman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a man who works on a barge. </DL>
<A NAME="bargemaster">
<B>bargemaster, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the master or owner of a barge. </DL>
<A NAME="bargepole">
<B>barge pole,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a long pole for propelling a barge. <BR><I>expr. <B>touch with a barge pole,</B> </I>(Informal.) to have anything to do with. <BR> <I>Ex. If he tries to leave me this funny old place ... I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole (Mary A. Ward).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="barghest">
<B>barghest, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) a goblin, fabled to portend <I>imminent</I> death or misfortune. </DL>
<A NAME="bargirl">
<B>bargirl, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Informal.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a waitress in a barroom. <DD><B> 2. </B>a girl or woman who frequents barrooms, especially one who is promiscuous. </DL>
<A NAME="bargraph">
<B>bar graph,</B> =bar chart.</DL>
<A NAME="barhop">
<B>barhop, </B>noun, verb, <B>-hopped,</B> <B>-hopping.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) <DD><I>noun </I> (Informal.) a waitress in a bar. <BR> <I>Ex. Blonde barhops in cowboy boots (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> (Slang.) to move from bar to bar and continue to drink. noun <B>barhopper.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="bariatrician">
<B>bariatrician, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a doctor who specializes in bariatrics. </DL>
<A NAME="bariatrics">
<B>bariatrics, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the branch of medicine dealing with the treatment of overweight people. </DL>
<A NAME="baric">
<B>baric</B> (1), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Rare.) of or having to do with barium. </DL>
<A NAME="baric">
<B>baric</B> (2), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with weight, especially weight of the air as indicated by a barometer; barometric. </DL>
<A NAME="barie">
<B>barie, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a former unit of gaseous pressure, equal to one dyne per square centimeter. </DL>
<A NAME="barilla">
<B>barilla, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>either of two saltworts grown especially in Spain, Sicily, and the Canary Islands. <DD><B> 2. </B>an impure alkali produced by burning these and allied plants, formerly used in the manufacture of soap, glass, etc. </DL>
<B>barite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> barium sulfate in its natural form, as a mineral found in many parts of the world; heavy spar. It is a principal ore of barium. Also, <B>barytes.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="baritonal">
<B>baritonal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or characteristic of a baritone. <BR> <I>Ex. a rich baritonal voice.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="baritone">
<B>baritone, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1a. </B>the male voice between tenor and bass. <BR> <I>Ex. A baritone is lower than tenor but higher than bass.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>a singer with such a voice. <BR> <I>Ex. The baritone was the star of the show.</I> <DD><B> c. </B>a part in music for such a voice or for an instrument of similar range. <BR> <I>Ex. Who will sing the baritone?</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a brass-wind musical instrument in B-flat, that has the quality or range of this voice. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or for a baritone. Also, (British,) <B>barytone.</B> </DL>
<B>barium, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a soft, silvery-white, metallic chemical element, found abundantly combined with other elements, especially in the minerals barite and witherite. Barium compounds are used in making pigments, safety matches, and radio tubes. </DL>
<A NAME="bariumcarbonate">
<B>barium carbonate,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a poisonous compound occurring as a mineral, witherite, or prepared synthetically. It is used in the manufacture of optical glass, paints, enamels, and dyes, and as a rat poison. </DL>
<A NAME="bariumhydroxide">
<B>barium hydroxide,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a poisonous, extremely alkaline white powder, or colorless crystals, used in refining animal and vegetable oils and beet sugar, in motor oil detergents, and as a water softener. </DL>
<A NAME="bariumsulfate">
<B>barium sulfate,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a compound occurring as a mineral, barite, or prepared synthetically. It is used in fluoroscopic examination of the gastrointestinal tract. </DL>
<A NAME="bariumtitanate">
<B>barium titanate,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a crystalline compound of barium, titanium, and oxygen highly sensitive to even very slight changes of pressure, temperature, or electrical field. It is used in condensers, in apparatus for the electronic reception of sound, in electronic computers, and in switching devices in telephone systems. </DL>
