BAPTISTS--THE CHURCH OF GOD. See WINEBRENNERIANS.
BAR is any elongated piece of wood, metal, or other solid substance. In the iron manufacture, B. is a rod, either round or square shafted. The round ones are made by drawing• the iron red-hot through a bore or hole in a plate, and the square ones by pass ing it likewise red-hot through a roller-mill between two rollers eounter-grooved, with their triangular-grooved faces forming the square opening for the passage of the iron. Railway and knee iron are made in the same manner. See IRON.
BAR, in hydrography, is a bank opposite the mouth of a river, which obstructs or bars the entrance of vessels. The B. is formed where the rush of the stream is arrested by the water of the sea, as the mud and sand suspended in the river water are thus allowed to be deposited. It is thus that deltas are formed at the mouths of rivers. The navigation of many streams as the Danube) is kept open only by constant dredging or other artificial means.
BAR, in music, is a line drawn across the stave, to divide the music into small por tions of equal duration; each of these small portions is itself called a bar.
BAR, or BARR, in heraldry, one of those more important figures or charges in her aldry which are known as ordinaries. By the heralds of this country, the ordinaries, or as, by way of eminence, they arc called, the "honorable ordinaries,"' are commonly reckoned as ten in number, the subordinaries, or minor charges, being greatly more numerous. The B., like the fess (q.v.), is formed by two horizontal lines passing over the shield, but it differs from it in size, the fess occupying a third, the B. only a fifth
part of the shield. There is this further difference between these two ordinaries, that the fess is confined to the center, while the B. may be borne in several parts of the shield. There is a diminutive of the B. called the closet, which is half a B.; and again of the closet, called the barrulet, which is half a closet, or the fourth part of a bar.— BAR-GEMEL is a double bar, from the French jumeau, f. jume//4 a twin.
BAR, in law. This word has several legal meanings; thus, it is the term used to signify an inclosure or fixed place in a court of justice where lawyers may plead. or perhaps more correctly, where they can address their advocacy on behalf of their clients. A veiled-off space within the houses of parliament is similarly called the B. See PLEADING. The dock, or inclosed space where persons accused of felonies and other offenses stand or sit during their trial, is also called the B.; hence the expression, "prisoner at the B." This word is likewise applied to the gate or rail thrown across a turnpike road for the levying of the toll-duties. It has also a general meaning in legal signifyingprocedure, signifyin something by way of stoppage or prevention. There is also a trial at B., that is, a trial the judges of a particular court, who sit together for that purpose in bane (q.v.). See BAR OF DOWER, PLEA, TRIAL AT BAR, TOLL, FELONY, TREASON, BARRISTERS, ADVOCATE.