In addition, there is a South American variety, either from Brazil or Buenos Ayres, which will roost in trees. They are very beautiful, partridge-spotted and streaked; the eggs small, and coloured like those of the pheasant; both the flesh and eggs are fine flavoured and delicate.—Moubray.
Bar, s. A piece of wood laid across a passage to hinder entrance; a bolt to fasten a door; any obstacle; a rock or bank at the entrance of a harbour; anything used for prevention; a moveable piece of timber used in the menage to teach horses to leap.
Barb, s. Anything that grows in the place of the beard; the points that stand backward in an arrow.
Barb, s. A Barbary horse. Vide Arab and Horse.
Barb, v. To jag arrows and fishing-hooks.
Barbadoes Tar, s. A bituminous substance of strong diuretic power. It is used in chronic coughs, and externally employed in strains and bruises.
Barbecue, s. A hog dressed whole.
Barbed, a. Bearded; jagged with hooks.
Barbel, s. A kind of fish found in rivers.
