Bar
Pronunciation: bär
n. | 1. | A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door. |
| 2. | An indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of lead; a bar of soap. |
| 3. | Anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier. |
| 4. | A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation. |
| 5. | Any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons. |
| 6. | (Law) The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in open court. |
| 7. | Any tribunal; as, the bar of public opinion; the bar of God. |
| 8. | A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept. |
| 9. | (Her.) An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field. |
| 10. | A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color. |
| 11. | (Mus.) A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures. |
| 12. | (Far.) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed. |
| 13. | (Mining) A drilling or tamping rod. |
| 14. | (Arch.) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town. |
v. t. | 1. | To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate. |
| 2. | To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; - sometimes with up. |
| 3. | To except; to exclude by exception. |
| 4. | To cross with one or more stripes or lines. |
BAR, actions. A perpetual destruction or temporary taking away of the action
of the plaintiff. In ancient authors it is called exceptio peremptorid. Co.
Litt. 303 b Steph. Pl. Appx. xxviii. Loisel (Institutes Coutumieres, vol.
ii. p. 204) says, "Exceptions (in pleas) have been called bars by our
ancient practitioners, because, being opposed, they arrest the party who has
sued out the process, as in war (une barriere) a barrier arrests an enemy;
and as there have always been in our tribunals bars to separate the
advocates from the judges, the place where the advocates stand (pour parler)
when they speak, has been called for that reason (barreau) the bar."
2. When a person is bound in any action, real or personal, by judgment
on demurrer, confession or verdict, he is barred, i. e. debarred, as to that
or any other action of the like nature or degree, for the same thing,
forever; for expedit reipublicae ut sit finis litim.
3. But there is a difference between real and personal actions.
4. In personal actions, as in debt or account, the bar is perpetual,
inasmuch as the plaintiff cannot have an action of a higher nature, and
therefore in such actions he has generally no remedy, but by bringing a writ
of error. Doct. Plac. 65; 6 Co. 7, 8 4 East, 507, 508.
5. But if the defendant be barred in a real action, by judgment on a
verdict, demurrer or confession, &c., he may still have an action of a
higher nature, and try the same right again. Lawes, Pl. 39, 40. See
generally, Bac. Ab. Abatement, N; Plea in bar. Also the case of Outram v.
Morewood, 3 East, Rep. 346-366; a leading case on this subject.
BAR, practice. A place in a court where the counsellors and advocates stand
to make their addresses to the court and jury; it is so called because
formerly it was closed with a bar. Figuratively the counsellors and
attorneys at law are called the bar of Philadelphia, the New York bar.
2. A place in a court having criminal jurisdiction, to which prisoners
are called to plead to the indictment, is also called, the bar. Vide Merl.
Repert. mot Barreau, and Dupin, Profession d'Avocat, tom. i. p. 451, for
some eloquent advice to gentlemen of the bar.
BAR, contracts. An obstacle or opposition. 2. Some bars arise from
circumstances, and others from persons. Kindred within the prohibited
degree, for example, is a bar to a marriage between the persons related; but
the fact that A is married, and cannot therefore marry B, is a circumstance
which operates as a bar as long as it subsists; for without it the parties
might marry.
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To dream that you are at a bar,
signifies your desire to escape from the stresses of your daily life and retreat into a light-hearted environment where pleasure abounds.
Hershey bar,
Maypole,
abscind,
accent,
accent mark,
achievement,
ait,
alehouse,
alerion,
ambo,
amputate,
animal charge,
annihilate,
annulet,
anticipate,
arch dam,
archipelago,
argent,
armorial bearings,
armory,
arms,
aside from,
atoll,
avert,
aviation badge,
azure,
backstop,
badge,
bamboo curtain,
ban,
band,
bandeau,
bang,
banish,
bank,
bar line,
bar out,
bar sinister,
barrage,
barrel house,
barring,
barroom,
bate,
baton,
batten,
batten down,
beam,
bear-trap dam,
bearings,
beaver dam,
beer garden,
beer parlor,
belt,
bench,
bend,
bend sinister,
beside,
besides,
bespangle,
bespeckle,
bespot,
billet,
bind,
bistro,
blank wall,
blazon,
blazonry,
blind alley,
blind gut,
blind tiger,
block up,
blockade,
blockage,
blotch,
board,
bob,
bolt,
boom,
boozer,
bordure,
bottleneck,
boycott,
brace,
brake,
breakwater,
breastwork,
brick wall,
broad arrow,
bucket shop,
buffer,
buffet,
bulkhead,
bulkhead in,
bullion,
bulwark,
bung,
but,
button,
button up,
cabaret,
cadency mark,
cafe,
cancel,
cant hook,
cantina,
canton,
caulk,
cay,
cecum,
chaplet,
character,
charge,
check,
checker,
checkrein,
chevron,
chicken,
chief,
chink,
chock,
choke,
choke off,
choke up,
choking,
choking off,
circumscribe,
circumscription,
clap,
claw bar,
clip,
clog,
clog up,
close,
close off,
close out,
close tight,
close up,
coat of arms,
cockatrice,
cocktail lounge,
cofferdam,
coin gold,
coin silver,
confine,
congest,
congestion,
constipate,
constipation,
constrict,
contain,
continental island,
contract,
control,
copper,
coral head,
coral island,
coral reef,
cork,
coronet,
costiveness,
counsel,
count out,
cover,
crack,
crank,
craze,
crescent,
crest,
crisscross,
crop,
cross,
cross moline,
cross-hatching,
crossbar,
crosscut,
crow,
crowbar,
crowd,
crown,
cruciate,
cul-de-sac,
cull,
curb,
custos,
cut,
cut across,
cut away,
cut off,
cut out,
dam,
dam up,
dapple,
dash,
dead end,
debar,
debarment,
debarring,
decussate,
defense,
deflect,
degree,
delimit,
delimitate,
delineation,
demarcation,
deny,
deport,
desk,
deter,
device,
diagonal,
difference,
differencing,
difficulty,
dike,
direct,
disallow,
discourage,
disenable,
dishearten,
disqualify,
ditch,
dive,
dock,
dog,
dot,
dotted line,
dramshop,
drinkery,
drinking saloon,
eagle,
earthwork,
eliminate,
embankment,
embargo,
embolism,
embolus,
encumbrance,
enjoin,
enucleate,
epaulet,
eradicate,
ermine,
ermines,
erminites,
erminois,
escritoire,
escutcheon,
estop,
ex,
except,
except for,
excepting,
exception,
excise,
exclude from,
excluding,
exclusion,
exclusive of,
exile,
expression mark,
extinguish,
extirpate,
falcon,
fasten,
fence,
fend,
fend off,
fermata,
fess,
fess point,
field,
file,
fill,
fill up,
flagstaff,
flake,
flanch,
flat,
fleck,
fleur-de-lis,
fold,
fold up,
ford,
foreclose,
forestall,
foul,
freckle,
freeze out,
fret,
fur,
fusil,
garland,
gate,
gin mill,
gold,
gold nugget,
gorge,
gravity dam,
griffin,
groggery,
grogshop,
groin,
gules,
gyron,
hachure,
hairline,
halt,
hamper,
handspike,
hardship,
harlequin,
hash mark,
hatching,
hatchment,
hedge,
helmet,
help,
hem,
heraldic device,
hinder,
hold,
holm,
honky-tonk,
honor point,
hurdle,
hydraulic-fill dam,
ignore,
impalement,
impaling,
impasse,
impede,
inadmissibility,
inescutcheon,
infarct,
infarction,
ingot,
inhibit,
injunction,
insignia of branch,
insularity,
intercross,
interdict,
intersect,
iris,
iron crow,
iron curtain,
island,
island group,
islandology,
isle,
jam,
jetty,
jimmy,
keep from,
keep off,
keep out,
key,
key signature,
knock off,
label,
latch,
lead,
leaping weir,
leave out,
leaving out,
lectern,
ledger line,
legal profession,
let alone,
levee,
lever,
lie across,
ligature,
limb,
line,
lineation,
lion,
list,
local,
lock,
lock out,
lock up,
lockout,
logjam,
lop,
lounge,
lozenge,
maculate,
make impossible,
mantling,
marble,
marbleize,
mark,
marlinespike,
marshaling,
martlet,
mascle,
measure,
metal,
metronomic mark,
milldam,
moat,
mole,
motley,
mottle,
motto,
mound,
mullet,
mutilate,
narrowing,
nickel,
nightclub,
nip,
nombril point,
nonadmission,
notation,
nugget,
oak leaf,
obstipate,
obstipation,
obstruction,
obviate,
occlude,
oceanic island,
octofoil,
omission,
omit,
omitting,
or,
ordinary,
organization insignia,
orle,
ostracize,
outlaw,
outrigger,
outside of,
overseas bar,
pack,
padlock,
pale,
palisade,
paly,
parachute badge,
parapet,
pare,
pass over,
patch,
pause,
pean,
peavey,
pedal,
peel,
pepper,
pheon,
pick out,
picket,
pinch bar,
pip,
pleading,
plug,
plug up,
plumb,
pole,
polychrome,
polychromize,
portcullis,
pothouse,
precious metals,
preclude,
precluding,
preclusion,
presa,
prevent,
prize,
prohibit,
prohibition,
proscribe,
prune,
pry,
pub,
public,
public house,
purpure,
quarter,
quartering,
rail,
rainbow,
rampart,
rathskeller,
reef,
refuse,
reject,
rejection,
relegate,
relegation,
repel,
representation,
repress,
repudiate,
repudiation,
restrict,
restriction,
ripping bar,
roadblock,
roadhouse,
rock-fill dam,
rod,
root out,
rose,
rub,
rule out,
rummery,
rumshop,
sable,
saloon bar,
saltire,
sandbank,
sandbar,
save,
save and except,
saving,
say no to,
scape,
score,
scutcheon,
seal,
seal off,
seal up,
sealing off,
seawall,
secretaire,
secretary,
secure,
segno,
send to Coventry,
service stripe,
set apart,
set aside,
shaft,
shallow,
shallows,
shave,
shear,
shelf,
shield,
shoal,
shoal water,
shoulder patch,
shoulder sleeve insignia,
shut,
shut off,
shut out,
shut the door,
shut tight,
shut up,
shutter dam,
sign,
signature,
silver,
slab,
slam,
slash,
slur,
snag,
snap,
space,
spangle,
spar,
speakeasy,
speck,
speckle,
spile,
splotch,
spot,
spread eagle,
sprinkle,
squeeze,
squeeze shut,
staff,
stalk,
stamp out,
stanch,
stand,
star,
stave,
stave off,
stay,
stem,
stench,
stick,
stifle,
stigmatize,
stipple,
stone wall,
stop,
stop up,
stoppage,
stopper,
stopple,
strangle,
strangulate,
strangulation,
streak,
streaking,
stria,
striate,
striation,
striature,
striga,
strike off,
string,
striola,
strip,
strip off,
stripe,
striping,
stroke,
stud,
stuff,
stuff up,
stumbling block,
sublineation,
submarine badge,
subordinary,
suffocate,
suppress,
suspend,
swell,
symbol,
table,
taboo,
take off,
take out,
tap,
taproom,
tattoo,
tavern,
tempo mark,
tenne,
tessellate,
than,
tidal flats,
tie,
time signature,
tincture,
tongue,
torse,
totem pole,
transverse,
traverse,
treadle,
tressure,
tribunal,
truncate,
turn aside,
underline,
underlining,
underscore,
underscoring,
unicorn,
unless,
vair,
variegate,
vein,
vert,
vicissitude,
vinculum,
virgule,
wall,
ward off,
watering place,
weir,
wetlands,
wicket dam,
wine shop,
wipe out,
without,
work,
workbench,
wreath,
wrecking bar,
writing table,
yale,
yellow stuff,
zip up,
zipper