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and lubricatin'!, of frequent vise in physic. This well known de-coction is a very useful drink in many' disorders ; and is recom-mended, with nitre, by some authors of reputation, in slow fe-vers.

Barley-corn is used to denote a long measure, containing inlength one-3d of an inch, and in breadth one-Sth.

Barley-corn, [grain d rug?, I r.j is also used in building, fora little cavity between the moulding of joiner’s work, serving toseparate or keep them asunder ; thus called because made with akind of plane oi the same name.

BARLOW, William, mathematician and divine, was born inPembrokeshire whilst his-father was bishop of St. David’s. In1560, he was entered in Baliol college, Oxford : and in 1364, tooka degree in arts, which having completed by determination, he leftthe university, went to sea, and acquired considerable knowledgein the art of navigation. Jn 1588, he was made prebendary ofLitchlield, which lie exchanged for the place of treasurer. Someears after he was made chaplain to Prince llemy, the son ofing James I ; and in 1614, archdeacon of Salisbury. He was thefirst writer on the magnet, lie died in 1625, and was buried atEaston. His works are, 1.'I'lie Navigator’s Supply, containingmany things of principal Importance belonging to Navigation, andthe Use of diverse Instruments framed chiefly for that purpose.London 1597, 4to. Dedicated to Robert Earl of Essex. ‘2. Mag-netical Advertisements, or diverse pertinent observations and ap-proved experiments concerning the nature and properties of theload-stone. Loud. 1616, 4to. 3. A brief Discovery of the idleAnimadversions of Mark Ridley, M. D. upon a Treatise entitledMagnetical Advertisements. London 1618, 4to.

BARM, [barm, Welch; beorm, Sax.] yeast; the ferment putinto drink to make it work. It is said to have been first used bythe Celtic in the composition of bread. See Baking and Bread.

BARMAS, agnation in the East Indies, who, in 1715, possessedall the coast extending from Bengal to Pegu.

BARNABAS, St, was born at Cyprus , and descended of thetribe of Levi, whose Jewish ancestors are thought to have retiredthither, to secure themselves from violence (luring the troubleiometimes in Judea. Ilis proper name was Joses, to which, after hisconversion to Christianity, the apostles added that of Barnabas , sig-nifying either the son of prophecy, or the son of consolation; thefirst respecting his eminent prophetic gifts, the other his great cha-rity in selling his estate .for the comfort and relief of the poorChristians. He was educated at Jerusalem , under Gamaliel:which might probably lay the foundation of that infinite friendship,which was afterwards’contracled between this apostle and St. Paul .The time of his conversion is uncertain ; but lie is generally es-teemed one of the 70 disciples chosen by our Saviour himself. AtAntioch, Paul and Barnabas had a contest, which ended in theirseparation : but what followed with respect to St. Barnabas , is notrelated in the Acts of the Apostles. Some say, he went into Italy ,and founded a church at Milan . lie suffered martyrdom at Sala-mis, whither some Jews, being come out of Syria , set upon him,as he was disputing in the synagogue, and stoned him to death.He was buried by his kinsman Mark, whom be had taken withl.im, in a cave near that city. The remains of his body are saidto have been discovered in the reign of the emperor /ieno, to-gether with a copy of St. Matthew ’s gospel, written with his ownhand, and lying on his breast.

BARNABITES , a religious order, founded in the 16th centuryby three Italian gentlemen, who had been advised by a famouspreacher of those days to read carefully the epistles of St. Paul .Hence they were called clerks of St. Paul ; and Barnabitfe, becausethey performed their first exercise in a church of St. Barnabas atMilan . Their habit is black ; and their office is to instruct, ca-techise, and serve in missions.

BARNACLE, berniclu, in ornithology, a species of goose witha black beak, which is much shorter than in the common goose.See Anas.

Barnacle is also a species of shell-fish, otherwise called conchaanatifera. See Concha.

Barnacles, in farriery, an instrument composed of two |branches joined at one end with a hinge, to put upon horses’ noseswhen they will not stand quietly to be shod, blooded, or dressed. |

BAIINADES1A, a genus ot the polygainia a'qualis order, and jeyngenesia class of plants; corolla radiated; calyx naked, imbrica- !ied, and pungent; pappus of the rays feathery," of the disk bristly |

and retrofvacted. There is but one species, viz.

B. Spinosa, a native of America .

RARNARD’s Castle, a town a id barony seated on the Tees,in the county of Durham , 30 miles 3. \V. of Durham. Lon. 1.49- W. Lnt. 54. 35. N.

BARNAYELDT, an island 3. of Terra del I’uego. Lon. 6658. \\ . Lat. 55. 49. S.

BARNES, Joshua, was chosen queen’s professor of Greek atCambridge in 1695, a language lie wrote and spoke with the ut-most facility. His first publication was a whimsical tract, entitled,“ Gerania, or a New discovery of the little Sort of People, calledPygmies” After that appeared his “ I.ife of Edward III.” inwhich he introduces his hero making long and elaborate speeches.In 1700, when he published many of his works, Mrs. Mason, ofIiemmingford, in Huntingdonshire , a widow lady ot between 40and 50, with a jointure of 200/. per annum, came to Cambridge,and desired leave to settle 100/. a year upon him after her death ;which he politely refused, unless she would also condescend tomake him happy w ith her person ; and they were accordingly mar-ried. He wrote several other books, viz. Sacred Poems; TheLife of Oliver Cromwell, the Tyrant ; several Dramatic pieces;A Poetical Paraphrase on the History of Esther, in Greek Verse,with a Latin translation, &c. ; and lie published Editions of Euri-pides, Anacreon , and Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey with notes and aLatin translation. He wrote with greater ease in Greek than evenin English , and yet is said not to have understood the delicaciesof that language. He was of such a humane disposition, and so un-acquainted with the world, that he gave his only coat to a vagrantbeggar. This excellent man died in 1712, in the 58th year of hisage.

BARNET, Chipping Barnet, or High Barnet, a townpartly in Middlesex, and partly in Hertfordshire , 11 miles N. byW. of London .

BARNEVELDT, Rene and William, the sons of John,(N. 1.) with a view of revenging their father’s death, formed a con-spiracy against the sladtholder, which was discovered. William(led : but Rene was taken! and condemned to die; which fatal cir-cumstance has immortalized the memory of his mother, of whomthe following anecdote is recorded. She solicited a pardon forRene ; upon which Maurice expressed his surprise, that she shoulddo that for her son, which she had not done for her husband. Tothis she replied with indignation, “ I would not ask a pardon formy husband, because he was innocent. I solicit it for my son,because he is guilty.”

BAKNITON, a town in Durham , 3 miles N. E. of Darlington.

BARNOLDSWEEK, a town near Settle, Yorkshire .

BARNSLEY, or BLACK BARNSLEY, a town in the W.Riding of Yorkshire, 15 miles from Doncaster and Wakefield.Lon. I. 20. W. Lat. 53 35. N.

BARNSTABLE, a county, and peninsula of Massachusetts ,-bounded on the E. and S. by the Atlantic ocean .

Barnstable, a port of entry and post-town of Massachusetts ;situated in the above county, 72 miles S. E. by S. of Boston .Lon. 4. 33. E. Lat. 41. 43. N.

Barnstable, or Barnstaple, a sea-port town of Devonshire ,36 miles N. of Exeter . Lon. 4. 5. W. Lat. 51. 15. N.

BAROACIl, a town of India , in the N. W. of the Decan ofIndostan, 40 miles N. of Surat . Lon. 72. 55. E. Lat. 21.25. N.

BAROCHE, a town of Cambaya, in the dominions of theGreat Mogul. Lon. 72. 5. E. Lat. 22. 15. N.

BAROCO, in logic, a term given to the fourth mode of thesecond figure of syllogisms. A syllogism in baroco has the firstproposition universal and affirmative, but the second and the thirdparticular and negative, and the middle term is the predicate in thetwo first propositions. Example,

- Ba Every man is a two-legged animal:ro But every animat is not two-legged;co Therefore every animal is not a man.

BABODUNUM, an ancient name of Dunbar.

BAROMETER, [from weight, and pnr:o», measure,]

an instrument of modern invention, for measuring and ascertainingthe weight of the atmosphere, as well as the height of mountains,and likewise foretelling, with tolerable accuracy, the probablechanges of the weather. That such an instrument must be of ex-tensive utility to every person engaged in the active pursuits of life,whether those of gardening and agriculture, or the various depart-5 merits