Vocabulary : Baroscope to Barrack

Baroscope : Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.
Baroscopic : Alt. of Baroscopical
Baroscopical : Pertaining to, or determined by, the baroscope.
Barothermograph : An instrument for recording both pressure and temperature, as of the atmosphere.
Barouche : A four-wheeled carriage, with a falling top, a seat on the outside for the driver, and two double seats on the inside arranged so that the sitters on the front seat face those on the back seat.

Barouchet : A kind of light barouche.
Barpost : A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field.
Barque : Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind. ;; A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged. ;; Same as 3d Bark, n.
Barracan : A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant.
Barrack : A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings. ;; A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc. ;; To supply with barracks; to establish in barracks; as, to barrack troops. ;; To live or lodge in barracks.

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