| barratry |
simony: traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments the crime of a judge whose judgment is influenced by bribery (maritime law) a fraudulent breach of duty by the master of a ship that injures the owner of the ship or its cargo; includes every breach of trust such as stealing or sinking or deserting the ship or embezzling the cargo the offence of vexatiously persisting in inciting lawsuits and quarrels
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| barren |
bare: providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape" completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "a novel devoid of wit and inventiveness"; "a life empty of happiness"; "innocent of literary merit"; "void of understanding" not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile" incapable of sustaining life; "the dead and barren Moon" an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
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| barrier |
a structure or object that impedes free movement any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective; "intolerance is a barrier to understanding" anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access
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| barracuda |
any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and long strong teeth
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| barrel chest |
a rounded, bulging chest with abnormal increase in the anteroposterior diameter, showing little movement on respiration; seen in emphysema and in kyphosis.
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