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 Brotherhood Of War 04

The Colonels

Chapter 1.

When available, a caparisoned stallion, with boots reversed in stirrups,

to be led in the procession, Is authorized for military funerals of officers
and noncommissioned officers assigned to Armor or Armored Cavalry,
or for officers and noncommissioned officers formerly assigned to
Cavalry.

A ground crew two sergeants in fatigues and field jackets was pulling
camouflage netting off Big Bad Bird II when the three-quarter-ton truck
rolled up to the small clearing in the pine forest and discharged its
passenger.

The passenger was a tall, handsome, mustachioed major wearing pinks

and greens, a uniform which, in three days, he would no longer be
authorized to wear. The uniform was superbly tailored. It had, in fact,
come from the London tailors which had outfitted General George Smith
Patton, Jr. There had been a joke (paraphrasing J.P. Morgan's comment
about his yacht) that (f you had to ask what uniforms from Hartwell &
Hay cost, you couldn't afford one.

The major's green tunic was heavy with ribbons and devices testifying to
his service, the ribbons ranging downward in importance from the
Distinguished Service Cross, the nation's second highest award for valor,
to the red-and-white ribbon of the Enlisted Man's Good Conduct Medal.
There was an Expert Combat Infantry Badge with a star signifying a
second award. There was a set of Senior Army Aviator's wings. There
was a four-inch-wide ribbon around his neck, holding a three-inch gold
medal awarded by the Greek government.
The major was carrying a small, folded, somewhat frayed guidon in his
hands.

A chief warrant officer, a gray-haired, florid-faced, middleaged man in

an Ike jacket, jumped to the ground from the cabin of Big Bad Bird II.

His eyes went up when he saw how the major was dressed. He walked to
him. He did not salute.

"My," he said, "don't you look splendid." "I thought I told you to stay
out of this, Dutch," the major said.

"If this one went in, that would really be the end of it," the chief warrant
officer replied.

"That wasn't your fault, Dutch," the major said.

"So you said."

The camouflage netting was now clear of Big Bad Bird II. One of the
sergeants, a stocky master sergeant in his early thirties, dragged it to the
side. The other, also a master sergeant, but younger and leaner, walked
up to the major and the chief warrant officer. His eyes ran over the
major's tunic, but he said nothing.

"I had an unpleasant thought on the way out here," the major said. "Is
there any gas in that thing?" "Shit," the sergeant said, as if that thought
had occurred to him for the first time. He trotted to Big Bad Bird II,
climbed up the fuselage, and leaned in the cockpit window.

Big Bad Bird II was a Sikorsky H-19 helicopter, a twelve passenger

single-rotor aircraft. The H-19 was the first really successful transport
helicopter (it had been used in the waning days of the Korean War) and
was now about obsolete. It had been replaced by the Sikorksy H-34,
which was larger and more powerful, although with roughly the same
lines. The H-19 was now used only for training.

Big Bad Bird II was an unusual H-I 9. For one thing, it had been painted
black rather than olive drab. For another, on each landing strut there had
been mounted a rocket-firing mechanism. it was the only armed
helicopter in the U.S. Army. There had been another, but it had blown
up a few days earlier: hence Big Bad Bird II. On the fuselage was a
skillfully done cartoon of Woody Woodpecker, leering as he threw beer
bottles.

The master sergeant standing on the fuselage steps withdrew his head
from the cockpit.

"You've got about forty-five minutes fuel, Major," he called down.

"That'll be enough," the major replied.

He walked to the helicopter and looked up at the rotor head, moved to

the rear, checked the blades on the tail rotor, and then walked to the
front again. By then the sergeant had the engine compartment open, and
the major examined the engine.

"What I need now is a set of cans," the major said. "And a roll of
masking tape."

The master sergeant nodded and walked to his truck. The major climbed
into the pilot's seat and disconnected the helmet he had found on the
seat. He looked down at the ground, saw the sergeant, and tossed the
helmet to him. The sergeant caught it, laid it on the ground, and then
climbed halfway up the fuselage to hand him a set of headphones and a
roll of gray masking tape.

"What are you going to do with the tape?" the sergeant asked.
"Stick this in the copilot's window," the major said. He shook the guidon
open. It was a small yellow flag, yellow for Armor, onto which the
numerals "73" had been stitched. Below them was a hand-lettered
legend, in grease pencil:

TIF LOWELL.

The major had commanded Task Force Lowell of the 73rd Heavy Tank
Battalion (Reinforced) during the Korean War. Of all his military
souvenirs, this meant the most to him.

The sergeant nodded and ripped off strips of tape. The major leaned
across the copilot's seat and taped the guidon over the window. Then he
put the earphones on his head and flipped the Master switch and the
radio buss. He listened to the traffic between the ground controller and
the aircraft participating in the funeral ceremony. He listenedforflve
minutes, and then he looked down from the cockpit again.

The two sergeants and the chief warrant were standing by a fire
extinguisher mounted on what looked like oversize bicycle wheels.
None of them were looking at him. The major whistled to catch their
attention. Then he made a "wind it up" gesture with his index finger.

One of the master sergeants took the black fire extinguisher nozzle and
pointed it at the engine compartment.

The major primed the engine, adjusted the throttle and the richness, and
l4fted up on the Engine Start toggle switch. The starter whined, and the
machine shook as the 700-horsepower Curtiss-Wright radial engine
labored. Then it caught, and the three blades overhead began to turn. The
major watched the dials, making minor adjustments, until the engine
smoqthed out and the needles moved into the green.

Then he looked out the window by his side at the three men on the
ground. He winked, put his hands on the controls, and advanced the
throttle by twisting it. Simultaneously he raised the control itself.

Big Bad Bird II shuddered and then went light on the wheels. First one
wheel left the ground, then another, and then the machine was in ground
effect hover. When he was two feet off the ground, he lowered the nose
and moved across the small clearing, gaining speed. As he came to the
trees at the end of the field, he pulled it up to fifty or sixty feet, and then
made a 180 degree turn.

He was able to see the men on the ground. They were doing something
very unusual for two master sergeants and a warrant officer. For their
hands were raised informal salutes. The major, touched, moved the
joystick between his legs, and the helicopter swung from side to side.

He flew the treetops to Parade Ground No. 2, as low as he dared,

popping up every once in a while for a quick look. The funeral cortege
was still making its way from the chapel on the main post. The head of
the snake, the tank with the casket on it, as well as the family, the other
mourners, and the brass, were already in the bleachers at the parade
ground; but the tail of the snake was still moving.

He would wait until everyone was in place.

He saw the T34s, Russian tanks, still wearing red stars, parked at the end
of the parade ground. They were now American tanks, of course, used
by a special unit at Fort Riley to provide realism for maneuvers.

But nevertheless, it was still surprising to see them lined up for a funeral
ceremony.

There were five T34s. They had been ordered to Fort Rucker in a
high-level public relations ploy against the air force. The air force,
which according to the Key West Agreement of 1948, had a monopoly
on all aerial weapons systems and armed aircraft, had been reluctant to
develop an antitank helicopter.
In fact, it had announced that such a device was impractical.

So in violation of the Key West Agreement the army had developed its
own rocket-armed helicopter the Big Bad Bird and had planned to shoot
up the Russian T34s before television cameras. Once that had happened,
the air force would be forced to accept a fait accompli, and the army
would be able to proceed with the development of the weapons system.

The plan hadn't quite worked: during a dry run before the demonstration,
one of the rockets had misfired, setting off a chain of accidents that
destroyed the Big Bad Bird and the young pilot flying it. What was left
of the pilot was in the casket now on the back of the M48 Patton tank.

The army ploy had crashed with the Big Bad Bird. The crash had been
filmed by the television networks, and now all the brass could do was to
salvage what they could by staging a large funeral for the pilot.

Once they had been caught doing something forbidden by the Key West
Agreement, they could not repeat the violation by putting rockets on
another helicopter or at least so the brass understood.

The brass, the major thought, were wrong again.

"Unidentified helicopter operating in the vicinity of Parade

Ground No. 2, you are ordered to immediately leave the area.

That was the traffic controller at the parade ground. He didn't want
anything to interfere, with the flight of the aircraft that would pass over
the casket in final tribute.

The major lifted Big Bad Bird II high enough to get another look at the
parade ground. The tail of the snake had arrived.
Instead of dropping back out of sight, he pulled up, rising vertically until
he was almost out of power. When he felt the copter start to slip into a
stall, he dropped its nose and made a full speed pass over the parade
ground, so low that he had to pull up to get over the tank with the
flag-draped casket.

The traffic controller's voice came again. He seemed annoyed that his
orders were being ignored.

Big Bad Bird II flashed over the Russian T34s at the end of the parade
ground. The major looked carefully at them as he turned. Then he flew
back down the parade ground, turned again, and came to a hover directly
over the tank with the casket.

He looked down and saw two of the official pallbearers jump onto the
tank so that the rotor blast wouldn't blow the colors covering the casket
away.

Then he looked at the T34s again. And squeezed the trigger on the
joystick.

There was a dull rumbling noise and Big Bad Bird II shuddered as
twenty-seven 3.5 inch rockets fired from the device on the left landing
strut, and then twenty-seven 3.Ss came off the right strut.

For fifteen seconds a train of rockets swept across the line of Russian
T34s. When it was over, the five tanks were nothing but piles of warped
and ruptured metal. Then the fuel from their tanks caught fire, and thick
pillars of dense smoke rose into the sky.

The air force, the major thought, would no longer be able to claim that
rocket-armed helicopters could not kill tanks.

And that, he thought, was really a much more fitting tribute to the late
First Lieutenant Edward C. Greer, Armor, who had been flying the Big
Bad Bird when it went in than a caparisoned stallion with reversed boots
in the stirrups.

He flew through the dense diesel smoke, then turned the helicopter
toward Laird Army Airfield. As he approached the Aviation Board
parking ramp, he was not really surprised to see a military police sedan
coming to meet him with its red warning lights flashing.

By the time he had shut the H-19 down, there were two military police
cars parked by him. He reached across the copilot's seat and tore the
Task Force Lowell guidon from the window. He tore the masking tape
from the guidon and folded the guidon again. Then he put on his cap and
climbed down from Big Bad Bird His cockpit.

Two of the MPs were officers, both second lieutenants.

They were both obviously excited and not quite sure of themselves. One
of them, the major thought, looked on the verge of drawing his pistol.

One of them finally saluted. The major returned it.

"Sir, are you Major C.W. Lowell?" he asked.

Major Lowell raised his hands in a gesture of surrender.

"The charge, I gather, is Grand Theft, Helicopter?" he asked.

(One)

Plantation No. 3

Hot, South Vietnam 25 December 1958

Paul Hanrahan, a trim, pleasant-faoed, balding Irish-American, was

wearing what he thought of as his civilian class "A" whites: white shirt,
white tie, white linen suit, and white shoes. "These made him feel very
much like a frog colonial and also a bit overdressed for a 10,000 mile
journey. By the time he got to Tokyo much less to Hawaii or San
Francisco the suit, shirt, shoes, and tie would no longer be white, and he
would look like an unsuccessful traveling salesmaxl with a drinking
problem.

On the other hand, he thought, as he sipped the too-bitter coffee, where

he was going he wouldn't dare appear in public in these clothes, so he
might as well wear them while he could. Paul T. (Red) Hanrahan was a
lieutenant colonel in the regular army of the United States.

Until 2359 hours the previous day, until the last minute of Christmas
Eve, he had been Chief, Signal Branch, United States Army Military
Advisory Group, Vietnam. As of the first minute of Christmas Day, he
had been relieved of duty and ordered to proceed to Fort Bragg, N. C.,
for duty with the U.S. Army Special Warfare School.

Earlier, as soon as they had heard the faint tinkle of his alarm clock, two
houseboys had come into the bedroom with orange juice, coffee, and
croissants. Breakfast proper was served on the east patio of the rambling,
white-frame building where Hanrahan and his family were staying as the
guests of the Janmers. Here, among other offerings in silver serving
dishes on a long table covered with crisp white linen, were laid oeufs sur
le plat avec jam bon

His French hosts, Paul Hanrahan thought somewhat ungraciously, were

determined to do their best. If the American barbarians couldn't face a
new day without an enormous breakfast which included ham and eggs,
then these would be provided to them.

If Paul Hanrahan had had his way, he and his family would not have
been the guests of the Janniers at all. A final couple of weeks in Vietnam
spent in a suite at the Caravelle Hotel was by no means like two weeks
in the Black Hole of Calcutta. Christmas at the Caravelle would have
been just fine.

But Patricia Hanrahan had met Christine Jannier at the Cathedral not
long after she and the children had arrived in Saigon. Christine soon
took Patricia under her wing; and became something like an older sister.
Since the Janniers had been in Indochina for generations, they had
dozens of contacts which Christine had been willing to use in Patricia's
behalf. She'd gotten the Hanrahan kids Paul, Jr." Kevin, and Rosemary
into the best of the "French" schools, without any of the trouble
Hanrahan had been told to expect by his people in the American
Embassy. Then Henri Jannier had arranged for the installation of a
"local" telephone (as opposed to the Embassy line, which connected to
the local system through the Em6assy switchboard) overnight after the
Embassy people had told him he could expect it to take four months or
longer.

Patricia was no fool, and it had not been necessary for Paul to tell her
that there was more than one motive in the Janniers' friendship. He was a
lousy light bird in the American army, and Jannier was the general
manager of a French company which owned tens of thousands of
hectares of rice paddies, vast plantstions of rabber trees, and fleets of
trucks and river boats. He didn't think his Irish charm was the reason
they had been so nice.

At first he thought the Janniers wanted information from him. He gave

them a little, after he was sure it had already been compromised. He'd
also discussed them with Sandy Felter when Felter had passed through
Saigon last January. Felter had been one of his junior officers on the
Albanian border in Greece ____ than ten years earlier and had
subsequently become a --highly placed intelligence officer. Felter had
heard out Paul's suspicions, and then, with that steel trap logic that had
caused him to rise so far so fast, outlined the possible explanations.

First, possibly, the Janniers simply liked the Hanrahans. Second, it was
equally possible that Jannier was a French intelligence officer. Or for
that matter a Frenchman serving as eyes for the communist Vietminh.

But what was most likely, according to Felter, was that Jannier was
simply doing favors so that Hanrahan would be in his debt.

"The next day, Felter had come up with still more. Overnight, somehow,
Felter had checked the Janniers out. And it had turned out that Christine
Jannier was General Jean-Philippe Dommer's daughter. Dommer had
been one of the more ruthless fighters against the Vietminh, and was
passionately hated by them.

"You say that Christine Jannier stays with you when she's in Saigon?"
Felter had asked.

"Yes. All the time."

"If I were Henri Jannier, and I could arrange to have my wife stay in an

"American' house in Saigon and ride around in an American Pontiac,

and all it cost me was a few favors, I'd think I'd made quite a bargain,"
Felter said.

"You think that Patricia's in danger?" Hanrahan had asked, alarmed.

"Not yet," Felter had replied, matter of factly. "The Vietminh seem to be
leaning backward not to create an incident involving Americans."

And so there had been no way for Paul Hanrahan to say no when
Patricia told him that the Janniers "insisted" they join them for
Christmas on their plantation, ninety miles from Saigon.

Two things at the plantation had surprised Hanrahan. The first was the
Janniers' son. Hanrahan had understood he was supposed to have been in
France; nevertheless he was waiting when the Hanrahans had climbed
out of the two Citroen sedans the Janniers had sent to fetch them and
their luggage.

The son was named Jean-Philippe, after his Grandfather Dommer, and
like his grandfather, he was a soldier. Until recently he'd served as a
parachutist in Algeria; and he had been wounded there.

Hanrahan liked Jannier from the moment he met him. He was that rare
breed of parachutist, whose parachutist's credentials, like Hanrahan's,
were impeccable, but who also understood that the parachute was an
inefficient and maybe absurd means of getting a soldier into position.

Jannier, a tall and muscular, dark-haired and dark-eyed young man of

twenty-six, was a graduate of L'Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. Now that
he was recovered from his wounds, and apparently hadn't been tainted
by the treason some other French parachutists had been involved in, he
was being sent to America, to Fort Rucker, Alabama, where he would
undergo training as a helicopter pilot. After becoming a pilot, he would
then serve as one of the French Army liaison officers to the Aviation
Center. It was, Hanrahan undetstood, the sort of assignment given to
very bright young officers for whom a rank-heavy career is prophesied.

Before traveling on to the States, Jean-Philippe had come to Vietnam to

see his parents; and by a marvelous coincidence (which was about as
coincidental, Hanrahan thought, as Christmas Day following Christmas
Eve), he was on the very same flight to America as the Hanrahans.

The favors owed were being called in. Certainly a dear friend of the
family, who happened to be a West Pointer, and who happened to meet
the son under the family roof at Christmas time, would simply not
abandon the son in America. He could arrange introductions, that sort of
thing.

He was being used, Hanrahan understood, but he couldn't be angry. If he

was smart enough, he told himself, and further removed than a
generation from his own lace-curtain Irish neighborhood, he would do
the same for his own kids. And Christ, he did owe the Janniers. There
was no question about that.

The second thing Paul Hanrahan had been surprised to find at the
plantation was a turkey. It was the enmie for Christmas Eve supper.

The only way Jannier could have gotten a turkey, Hanrahan realized,
was to have it shipped frozen by air from Hawaii. It was an incredible
gesture, and if he could pay it back in some small way by fixing up
Captain Jean-Philippe Jannier at Fort Rucker, he'd certainly give it a hell
of a try.

In fact, it all couldn't be easier, he thought. Colonel Bob Bellmon was at

Fort Rucker, running Aviation Combat Developments. Bellmon was sort
of a stuffy sonofabitch, but he was the man to take care of young
Jannier. Like Jannier, his family had been officers for generations.

More important, both - -Bdflmon and his wife spoke French. Barbara
Bellmon was not only a really nice woman but the daughter of Major
General Peterson K. "Porky" Waterford, who had led the famed 40th
"Hell's Circus" Armored Division in War II.

The Beilmons were Establishment, and they would be delighted to take

care of the son of their French counterparts.

(Two) As Paul was closing his attachd case, Patricia came out of the
bathroom, looking crisp and desirable. She was red-haired and
fair-skinned, but without the washed-out look Paul disliked in so many
redheaded women. He had been enormously relieved when Patricia had
kept her figure after the children. Even after three kids she was still very
sexy and trim. Patricia Hanrahan scowled at her husband.

"Do you really think you need that?" she asked, gesturing in the general
direction of his. pistol.
He picked up the Colt.45 from where he'd placed it next to the attache
case, and slipped it into a skeleton holster in the small of his back.

"We're not at Bragg yet," he said. "And you.

"Never need a pistol until you need one badly," his wife finished his
stock answer.

"That's right, honey," he said.

She shook her head in resignation and disgust.

The houseboys wordlessly asked permission to take the luggage. Paul

went to them and tried to give them money, which they politely but
firmly refused. He gave up and geshired for them to take the luggage.

The Jannier family was gathered on the wide, red-tiled walkway that ran
from the house to the curving drive. The Janniers were not going to go
into Saigon with them. It was a ninety-mile drive each way over rough
two-lane macadam roads.

The two Citroen sedans that had brought the Hanrahans from Saigon
were in the drive. There were two Vietnamese drivers to a car, which
was known as "sharing the rice bowl." Thus four men (in this case, four
extraordinarily large men), doing the work of two, were "busy" tying
luggage with great care to chrome racks on the roofs.

In addition, two houseboys were on the walkway, each with a tray of

champagne glasses.

The departure turned out to be quite emotional when everyone realized

that, excepting for the son, they were probably seeing one another for
the last time. The chances of the Hanrahans returning to Vietnam, at
least if Paul Hanrahan had anything to do with it, ranged from zero to
highly unlikely.
Paul was not surprised when Christine Jannier kissed him, but he was
surprised and touched when Henri wrapped his arms around him in an
affectionate hug, and then actually kissed him. There was nothing
whatever sexual in it, obviously, but it was a strange and disturbing
feeling to feel a man's whiskers grating on his own.

They finished their champagne and got in the cars. Then, with waves
and tootings of the horn and shouts of

"Bon voyage!" and

"Bon chance!"

and

"Au revoir!" the two cars, their tires grating on the macadam, drove
away from the house.

Paul, Jr." and Kevin rode in the first car with Jean-Philippe Jannier,
while the Hanrahan women went with Paul in the second. Their
protracted departure for home now seemed just about over, Paul thought
thankfully. All that remained was a "cocktail" at the Hotel Caravelle in
Saigon. That would give them a chance to exchange a final word with a
few friends as well as with the first secretary of the Embassy, the
ambassador having sent his regrets, and make a quick visit to the
facilities (the ones at the airfield left more than a little to be desired).
Then they would be off to the V. I.P lounge and the Air France
Constellation to Tokyo.

Hanrahan had been in Vietnam for more than three years, since the
spring of 1955, when he had been one of the first American "advisors"

sent there following the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu. He was glad to
be getting out. It was his judgment that it had been a mistake to send
Americans here in the first place. What he had seen of Vietnam since he
had come had convinced him that what he had witnessed in Greece was
not going to happen here, that this was a lost cause.

In Greece, the communists had been defeated. In part, this had been
possible because Harry Tniman had quietly ordered the army to send a
group of officers and enlisted men to train and equip the Greek Army.

This enabled them to protect their border with Albania and suppress
Soviet-directed native communists.

Paul Hanrahan had first parachuted into Greece during World War H
while on detached service to the OSS. Later, during the Uruggle with the
communists, he had stayed on in Greece as an advisor. It had been touch
and go for a while, especially at first, but then things had been turned
around. American supplies had helped, of course, and so had the
expertise of people like Hanrahan, whose extraordinary skill in
counter-guerrilla activities was based on his own experience as a
guerrilla. But hat had kept the Soviet Union from taking over Greece had
been a mind-set: the Greeks hated the communists not only for the
ordinary reasons, but for religious reasons. They believed that the
communists were the Antichrist, and they were willing to die for those
convictions.

Hanrahan had rarely found such pure anticommunism in Vietnam. There

was a little (among some of the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic
Church, for example), but it was not widespread. Aware that he had
become cynical, Hanrahan divided most of the South Vietnamese into
two groups: those who really didn't give a damn who ran the country,
and those who wanted to run it for their own benefit. Most of the
anticommunists were in the second group. They were not anticommunist
because they hated, as Hanrahan did, what communism really meant.
And because of that, Hanrahan was convinced that the red flag, sooner
or later, would fly over all of Vietnam.
But he was a soldier. He went where he was ordered to go and did the
best job he could when he got there. That nobility of purpose, however,
did not stop him from recognizing fault where he saw it. And it was his
judgment that it was a mistake to send the army to Vietnam.

In addition, the army itself was making the same mistake it had made in
Greece. They were sending the same low caliber of officers to Vietnam
that they had sent to Greece. When he was cynical (and he seemed to be
cynical more and more of the time), he often thought that USAMAG
(Greece) had been successful despite its officer corps, not because of it.
When a levy for personnel was issued, the best officers were given
commands of a platoon to a regiment and the who weren't quite good
enough for a command or for a -position were the ones who could be
"spared" to go to USAMAG (Vietnam). And even the good officers who
were sent over were the wrong kind. They could probably command an
American battalion or regiment and fight a conventional war. But the
war here was unconventional. Fighting it required skills that most of the
people Hanrahan had met simply didn't have.

He forced those thoughts from his mind, and told himself to look on the
bright side. He was going home. He was going to Bragg, where he had
been stationed three times before; so that was sort of like going home,
too. And he was pleased with his new assignment. He had crossed
swords with the commanding officer of USAMAG (Vietnam) on a
number of issues, and his efficiency reports, through a technique of
"damning by faint praise," had reflected that officer's disapproval. But
despite the lousy efficiency reports, he was being assigned to the newly
organized Special Warfare School. He thought there was at least a
chance that the school could set up some kind of valuable training
program for officers and noncoms about to be sent to Vietnam or
wherever else the brass decided "advisors" were needed.

It would have been pleasant to think that he had been assigned to the
Special Warfare School despite his efficiency reports rather than because
of them. But Hanrahan was a realist. He had been a lieutenant colonel
longer than just about anyone in the army. It was entirely likely that he
had risen as high in rank as he was going to rise. It was expected of West
Point graduates that, at appropriate points in their career, they be given
commands. The only commands Paul Hanrahan had ever had were of
small detachments of advisors.

Command, he sometimes thought bitterly, was judged by numbers of

troops. Command of a 1,200-man battalion involved in maneuvers in
Louisiana was considered far more important than command of a
50-man advisory detachment, even though the advisors might be in de
facto command of a division and a half of indigenous troops in contact
with a real enemy.

Of course, it was possible that he would get the eagle of a full colonel. It
was even possible that five years later he could get to be brigadier
general. He was, after all, a graduate of the United States Military
Academy, and there was the West Point mective Association, which was
supposed to see that West inters got promoted no matter what.

It was also possible, It. Col. Paul "Red" Hanrahan thought, a pig could
be taught to say the rosary and then be taken "into heaven. tie looked out
the window of the Citroen at the rice paddies id told himself that in
seventy-two hours, when he looked out window, he would see either a
billboard urging some kinder on him, or a farmer riding a tractor, not
one standing up to his hips in muddy water. ten minutes later, roughly
three-quarters of an hour from the plantation, as the two Citroens drove
at what Hanrahan thought an excessive speed-down the winding road
between flooded paddies, the skin at the back of his neck began to crawl.
the first thing he thought was that he was concerned with speed.
Vietnamese, particularly those at the wheel of a Westerner's vehicle
think that automobiles have two speeds, on and off.

but then he realized it was more than just the speed. There was a reason
for the speed. he turned over his shoulder and saw they were being
followed by a General Motors Carryall. me sonofabitch is right on our
bumper! And then he knew. "Get on the floor!" he ordered sharply.
Patricia looked at him in disbelief. Hanrahan reached over his wife and
put his hands on Rose's shoulders, then jerked her violently out of the
corner threw her onto the floor of the car. My God!" Patricia shrieked.
"Paul, what in the world..

Hanrahan put his hands on his wife's hair and pulled her downward to
the floorboard.

He felt the car brake, and then skid. Next he was flying rward, slamming
into his wife, and then bouncing against the back of tile front seat. "Stay
where you are!" he ordered. Rosemary began to whimper. He got his
hand on the.45, tugged it free of the holster, and mrnrked the action.
Then he opened the door and crawled out between the two Citroens.
They had both skidded to a stop, crosswise on the road, facing in
opposite directions.

He got to his knees and moved to the rear of the car he just left.

Vietnamese in black pajamas were spilling from the GMC The man in
the lead was raising an American Thompson 45 caliber submachine gun
to his shoulder, aiming it at the rear car Hanrahan put both hands
together on the.45 to steady it and shot the man twice, first in the chest
and then again in the face

Then he ran the four steps to the edge of the road and dove into the
ditch.

There came the sound of submachine guns, not the slow

blam-blam-blam a Thompson makes, but a lighter, rip pix sound. And
then other weapons were firing. His pistol held both hands in front of
him, Hanrahan popped up from the The firefight was over.

Not all the Vietnamese in black pajamas had made it ow the GMC.
Those that had were sprawled in spreading pools blood behind the man
with the Thompson he had dropped. others were hanging at obscene
angles from the open doors the truck. The windows on the GMC were
stitched with holes and steam was rising from the hood and radiator.

The Vietnamese in the Citroens had not been "sharing a rice bowl," he
now realized; they'd been riding shotgun. Now they were advancing
toward the GMC, holding French MAT 9 mm machine pistols in their
hands.

The man Hanrahan shot was obviously dead; the.45 bullet had blown the
back his head away. There was some question about the others the
ground behind him, or hanging from the GMC.

One of the Vietnamese matter of factly ejected the clip fror his MAT-49,
inserted a fresh one, and then emptied it into bodies.

"Formidable, mon Colonel," Jean-Philippe Jannier and then switched to

English. "But I fear you have dirtied suit."

He had a MAT-49 hanging loosely at his side. Hanrahan saw vestiges of

smoke curling from the open action.

"Fiick my suit," Hanrahan said. He rushed to the ( and for a moment his
heart stopped. Patricia and Rosemar were not moving.

"Oh, my God!" Hanrahan wailed. And then Patricia looked up at him,

wide-eyed, terrified, unbelieving. "Honey?" she asked, and then she
repeated herself. "h'. AJC Patty," he said. "It's all over." she asked again.
hen she saw the bodies on the road, Patricia became sick and that caused
a sympathetic reaction in Rosemary. There was more carnage than
anyone would have thought. He was able to reconstruct what had
happened: it was an ambush, a carefully planned ambush, probably
intended to Jam Philippe Jannier, and probably because of his
grandfather. The ambushers had known the cars were coming. They
waited along the road to positively identify Jannier, and met him in the
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1300 E. E. Psalter cxiv. i In oute-gate of Iraele,Oute of Egipt . . Of
the folke of barberie. f 1386 CHAI-CEK Man of L. T. 183 Alias, vnto
the Barbre nacion I moste goon. 1432-50 tr. /Ijgdt'n (18651 L 323
Wytlandia is . . inhabite with peple of barbre \vorschippenge ydoles.
1480 CAXTON Chron. Eng. ccxxxviii, 263 His fame.. come in to
hethnes and barbarye. 1513 DOUGLAS /Ends xi. xv. 23 Hys hosing
schane of wark of Barbary. 1629 CAULK Pract. The. 39 Not in the
Barbary ondy of a barbarous World, but in the Greece also of a
gracious Church. f 2. Barbarity, barbarism, barbarousness. Obs. 1564
Bt:coN Fitrwer Godly Pr. (1844) 42 Nothing but cruel barbary and
lion-like fierceness, a 1571 JKWF.LL Semi, bef. Queen (1583^, Come
to such ignorance and barbarie. 1635 SKIDMOKK in F. Lee Valid.
Anglic. On/. 11869) 84 Through tyrannical subjection and mere
barbary of their inhabitants. f3. Uncultivated speech, as opposed to
a classical language or classic diction. Also attrib. Oh. 1509 HAWKS
Past. Pleas. 38 The langage rude . . The barbary tongue. Ibid. 48
Tolde wyth tongue of barbary, In rude maner. 1608 TOURNEUR Rev.
Trag. \\. \\. 107 Their common talke is nothing but Barbery Latin. II.
as proper name. 4. The Saracen countries along the north coast of
Africa. (The only surviving sense.) 1596 SHAKS. Merch, I', in. ii. 272
From Lisbon, Barbary, and India. 1781 GIBBON Decl. babracot). [ad.
Sp. barbacoa, a. Haitian barbacoa (K. B. Tylor) ' a framework of
slicks set upon posts' ; evidently the same as the babracot (V a
French spelling) of the Indians of Guiana, mentioned by Im Thurn.
(The alleged Fr. barbc a queue 'beard to tail,' is an absurd conjecture
suggested merely by the sound of the word.)] 1. A rude wooden
framework, used in America for sleeping on, and for supporting
above a lire meat that is to be smoked or dried. i697l>AMi>iKK / 'oy.
(1699) I. 20 And lay there all night, upon our Borbecu's, or frames
of Sticks, raised about 3 foot from the Ground. Ibid I. 86 His Couch
or Barbecu of Sticks. 1879 BoDDAM-WHETHAM Roraima xiv. 155 For
preservation, a barbecue is erected, and the fish are smoked over a
tire. 1883 I M TitUKN Indians ofGniana ii. 47 Fires, above which
were babracots loaded with beef. — xi. 248 A babracot is ;i tage of
green sticks built over a fire on which the meat is laid. 2. An iron
frame for broiling very large joints, 1736 BAILKY Honseh. Diet. 347
When the belly side is . . steady upon the gridiron or barbecue, pour
into the belly of the hog, etc. 3. A hog, ox, or other animal broiled or
roasted whole; see also quot. 1861, and BARBECUE v. 2. 1764
FOOTF, Patron \. i. (1774! 6, I am invited to dinner on a barbicu.
1825 Schnylkill Fishing Co. in Bibliographer Dec. (1881) 25/1 A fine
barbacue with spiced sauce. 1861 TYLOR Anahiiac iv. 95 A kid that
had been cooked in a hole in the ground, with embers upon it. . .
This is called a * barbacoa '--- a barbecue. 4. (in U. S.) A large social
entertainment, usually in the open air, at which animals are roasted
whole, and other provisions liberally supplied. 1809 W. IRVING
Knickcrb. iv. Sx. 11849) 24° Engaged in a great ' barbecue,' a kind of
festivity or carouse much practised in Merryland. 1884 Boston
(Mass.) Jrni. 27 Oct. 2/3 At the Brooklyn barbecue, which Governor
Cleveland recently attended, 5000 kegs of beer were dispensed. 5.
An open floor on which coffee-beans, etc. may be spread out to dry.
1855 KINGSI.KV Wtstiv. Ho I xix. t'D.t, The barbecu or terrace of
white plaster, which ran all round the front. 1883 Cassell's Mag. Aug.
528/1 'I'he [cofiee-jbeans . . are carried to the 'barbacue,' an open
space paved with cement or asphalte, where they are spread on
matting . . to dry. 1885 LADY BSASSEY In Trades 235 A barbecue is
the name given, in Jamaica, to the house which contains the
threshing-floor and apparatus for drying the coffee. Barbecue
(baMbflu«), v. Forms : 7-9 barbacue, -icu e, 8- ikew, 8- barbecue, [f.
prec. sb.] 1. To dry or cure (flesh, etc.) by exposure upon a
barbecue ; see the sb. (senses i and 5). 1661 HICKEKINGILL
"Jamaica 76 Some are slain, And their flesh forthwith Barbacu'd and
eat. 1775 ADAIR Amur. Ind. 408 They cut them [pompions] into . .
slices, which they barbacue, or dry with a slow heat. 1794 STEDMAN
Surinam (1813) I. xv. 406 They use little or no salt, but barbacue
their game and fish in the smoke. 1839 [see BARBECUED i], 2. To
broil or roast (an animal) whole ; e.g. to split a hog to the backbone,
fill the belly with wine and stuffing, and cook it on a huge gridiron,
basting with wine. Sometimes, to cook (a joint) with the same
accessories. See also BARBECUE sb. 3. 1690 MRS. BEHN Widow R.
\\. iv. 356 Let's barbicu this fat rogue. 1702 C. MATHKR Magn.
C/iristi vn. vi. (1852) 556 When they came to see the bodies of so
many of their countrymen terribly barbikew'd. 1769 MRS. RAFFALD
Eng. Honsekpr. (1778) m To barbecue a Leg of Pork. 1823 LAMB
Roast Pig, ^.7^(1867) 163 Barbecue your whole hogs to your
palate. Barbecued (baub/ki/M),///. a. [f. prec. + -ED.] 1. Dried or
cured by exposure on a barbecue. 1737 WESI.KY Wks. (1872) I. 44
A little barbecued bear's flesh, (that is, dried in the sum. 1839 W.
IRVING Wolfert's R. (1855^ 221 Loaded with barbacued meat. 2.
Broiled or roasted whole. 1732 POPE Horace' Sat. ii. ii. 26 Send me,
Gods ! a whole Hog barbecu'd ! 1807 MRS. DORSET Peacock at H., A
barbecued mouse was prepared for the owl. 1847 BARHAM Ingol.
Leg. (1877) 209 The barbecu'd sucking-pig 's crisp'd to a turn.
Ba'rbecuing, vbl. sb. [f. as prec. f -ING*.] The action or process of
the vb. BARBECUE. 1716 IVodrow Corr. (1843} II. 150 When these
diabolical operations were gone through, they finished all by
barbikewing of the gentleman ! 1794 STEDMAN Surinam (1813) I.
261 The barbacuing consists in laying the fish upon twigs of wood
above the fire, where, by the smoke, they dry. Harbecute, v. and ///.
a. ; also 9 babracot, -ed.] Variants of BARBACUE, -D. 1687 CLAYTON
in Phil. Trans. XLI. 160 A Piece of Venison barbecuted, that is,
wrapped up in leaves, and roasted in the Embers. 1743 DK.
RICHMOND ibid. XLII. 511 He then laid it quite open like . . a
Barbacute Pig to be broiled. 1883 IM THURN Indians ofGniana xi.
248 The meat and most of the fish is smoked or babracoted. 84
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BARBED. Barbed (baibd),///. a.1 [f. BARB v., rf.1 + -ED.] f

1. Bearded. Obs. rare. '693. W. ROBERTSON Phraseol. Gen. 206
Barbed (i. e. 5arbamhabens*, BarbatMS. \ 2. Wearing a BARB (sense
3). O&r. 1526 SKELTON Magnyf. 1000 Barbyd lyke a nonne. 1601 W.
PARRY Sherley's Trav. (1863) 16 Their women are., very faire,
barbed every where. 3. Her. Having a calyx ' coloured proper. 1611
GWH.LIM Heraldry in. ix. no A rose gules Barbed and Seeded. 1864
BOUTELL Heraldry Hist, tj- Pop. xl. 70 The term barbed denoles the
small green leaves, the points of which appear about an heraldic
rose. 4. Furnished with a barb or barbs. 1611 BIBLE Job xii. 7 Canst
thou fill his skinne with barbed yrons? 1718 POPE Odyss. iv. 499 Bail
the barb'd steel. 1870 BRYANT Homer I. Mil. 251 Eighl barbed shafts
I sent. Barbed (bxibd, ba-ibed), ///. a* [f. BARB sb.'+ -ED.] Of a
horse : Armed or caparisoned with a barb or bard ; properly
BARDKU. ieoo HAWF.S Past. Pleas, xxvn. Ivii, My fayre barbed sted7
a 1618 RALKIGH Prerog. Parl. (1628)27 Many Earles could bring inlo
Ihe field a ihousand Barbed horses, a 1711 KEN EamitaJVfks. 1721
II. 84 As a barb'd Sleed in Fight, who nolhing fears. 1814 SCOTT La.
Isles vi. xxm, Or what may iheir short swords avail, 'Gainst barbed
horse and si "t Barbed-cat. Obs. A military engine ; see quot. 1489
C\XTON Faytcs of A. II. xxix. I vj b, For to make a werrely holde that
men calle a barbed catte, and a bewfray that shal have ix. fadome of
lengthe and two of brede, and ihe said calte six fadome of lengthe
and two of brede. Barbel (ba-jbcl). Forms: 4-5 barbell(e, 5-6 -byHl,
6-7 -bii;i, 6-8 -ble, 7 -bell, 6- barbel, [a. OF. barbel (1 3th c. in
Littre), mod. barbeau ' barbel,' and ' little beard ' :-late L. barbellus,
dim. of bar/'tis barbel (the fish), f. barba beard. Cf. It. barbolo the
fish.] 1. A large European fresh-water fish (Barous vulgaris) of the
Carp tribe, deriving its name from the fleshy filaments which hang
from its mouth. c 1380 CHAUCER Baladc Add. MS. 16156 B. M., pat
Barbell had swolowed bope hooke and lace. 1496 Kk. SI. A leans,
Fysshyngc ^1810) 26 The barbyll is a swete fysshe, but It is a
greasy meele and a peryllous for mannys body. 1538 Act i Eli:, xvii. §
i No person . . shall lake . . any Barbel nol being in Lenglh Iwelve
Inches. 1570 LEVINS Manip. /2o A barbie, fish, barba, -onis. 1611
CORYAT Crudities 477 Greal abundance of good fishes . . especially
ihe delicate barbils. 1867 F. FRANCIS Angling i. (1880) 50 The
barbel, so named from ihe barbs or wallles lhal depend from ihe side
of the mouth. 2. A fleshy filament hanging from the corners of the
mouth of some fishes, e.g. of the barbel. 1601 HOLLAND Pliny I. 261
Her little homes or BarUls which she [the sea- Frog] hath bearing
forth vnder her eies. 1698 'nil. Trans. XX. 91 Those Barbies which,
.the Conger is never without. 1880 GCNTHER Fishes 37 Barbels .. if
developed and movable, are sensitive organs of touch. 3. A variety
of house-pigeon. ? Obs. rare. 1741 Compl. Fam. Piece in. 512 The
Barbel has a red Eye, a short Tail, and a Bill like a Bulfinch. t4. Part
of a helmet protecting the chin ( = OF. barbier, -iere.) c 1314 Guy
Wanv. (18401 160 His barbel first adoun he delh, Withoulen colour
his neb he selh. tBa-rbeled, -bled,///, a. Obs. [f. OF. barbett barbed
+ -ED.] Barbed, having recurved points. '375 BARBOL-R Bruce vni.
57 Vilh arrowes barblyt braid. c 1480 CAXTON O-.'icTs Met. xn. xii,
He smote hym tleyoge with an arowe barbeled. Barbellate
ibaubelc't), a. [f. mod.L. barbell-a, dim. oibarbula little beard + -
ATE^.] Furnished with barbellx or short stiff hairs : specific epithet
of the pappus in some Composite plants. Barbelied, -eled (baubeld),
///. a. [f. BARBEL + -ED-.] Furnished with barbels. 1883 Hnrpet's
Mag. Dec. 106/2 The tall and barbeled dorsal fins were out of water.
Barbelling, -elillg (baubelirj), vbl. sb. [f. as prec. + -ING1 ; cf.
shrimping^ Fishing for barbel. 1867 F. FRANCIS Angling m. 76 As sel
forth in barbelling. Barbellulate (bube-lUffct), a. [f. mod.L. barbelltila,
dim. of barbella : see BAHBELLATE.] Furnished with barbellulx or
minute conical spines ; specific epithet of the pappus in some
Composite plants. 1847 in CRAIG. Barber (baubaj), sb. Forms : 4-7
barbour, -or, 5 -ore, -ur, 6 -oure, 6-7 -ar, 4- barber. [ME. 'barbour, a.
AF. barbour, OF. bar/wr :—L. type barbdtor-em. Barber, rare bef. 1
500, is partly due to substitution of -er for earlier -our, partly to F.
barbier (= It. barbiere) :—L. type tbarbdrius ; both f. barba beard.]
1. A man, or more rarely a woman, whose business it is to shave or
trim the beards, and cut and dress the hair, of customers. l^Now
largely replaced by hairdresser.) Formerly the barber was also a
regular practitioner in surgery and dentistry. The Company of
Barber-surgeons was incorporated by Edward IV. in 1461 ; under
Henry VIII. the tille was allered lo ' Company of Barbers and
Surgeons,' and barbers were reslricled to the practice of denlislry ; in
1745 they were divided inlo two distinct corporations. DOO c 13*0
Sir Tristr. i. Ixiii, A barbour was redi thare. c 1370 Robt. Sicily 54
They broght a barber hym beforne. 1381 9 She clepide the barbour,
and he f hym. n4S° in Wright Vac. (W.) WYCLIF J*dg. xvi. „ shoofe
seven heeris of hyi— --.„ 7692 Hec totistrix, a harbor. 1474 CAXTON
Chesse 74 ror fere and double of the harbours he made his
doughters to leme shaue. 1594 PLAT Jewcll-ho. in. 74 If your teelh
be verie scalie, let som expert Barber first take off the scales. 1624
CAPT. SMITH Virginia n. 30 For Barbers they vse their women, n
1625 BOYS Wks. (1629) 59 Like Barbars, who cut all other except
themselves. 1722 DE FOE Mem. Cavalier (1840) 14 No surgeon to be
had but a sorry country barber. 1837 THIRLWALL Greece IV. xxvii. i
He took his seal in a barber's shop. 1841 DICKENS Humph. Clock
295, I would suggest that barbers is not exactly the kind of language
which is agreeable and soothing lo our feelings . . I believe Ihere it
such a word in the dictionary as hairdressers. ^o.fig. One who clips
or cuts short ; a curtailer. 1609 B. JONSON Sil. Wont. in. ii. Wks.
(1616) 554 An excellent barber of prayers. 2. attrib., as in barber
fee, -shop, -surgeon (see prec.), -surgery; t barber -monger, a
constant frequenter of the barber's shop, a fop. c 1380 WYCLIF Sel.
Wks. (1871) 111.282 Money for barbour fees. 1579 FULKE Heskins'
Parl. 30 Alehouses and Barbarshops. 1605 SHAKS. Lear H. ii. 36 You
whoreson Cullyenly Barber-monger, draw. 1627 CAI>T. SMITH
Seaman's Gram. viii. 34 A certificate from Barber Chirurgions Hall of
his sufficiency. 1645 MILTON Calast. Wks. (1851) 358 And like an
able lexl man slils il into fowr, thai hee may Ihe heller come al il wilh
his Barbar Surgery'. 1684 Ir. Banff t Merc. L'ompit. in. 62 Eased by
Ihis common Barber-Surgeon's remedy. 1872 MARK TWAIN Innoc.
Abr. xii. 82 We hunled for a barber-shop. 3. Special combinations
and locutions : Barber s basin, a round metal dish with a broad edge
having a semicircular opening for the neck, so as to allow the chin to
reach into the bowl (still sometimes used as a barber's sign).
Barber's block, a rounded block on which wigs are made and
displayed. Barber's chair, the chair common to all his customers, fig.
a drab, strumpet (obs.}. Barbers knife, a razor (obs.). barber's
music, harsh, discordant music, like that formerly produced by
customers waiting their turn in a barber's shop, where a musical
instrument was provided for their amusement. Barber's pole, a pole
painted spirally with red and white stripes, used as a barber's sign.
1755 SMOLLETT Quix. I. 191 Thai helmet . . which looks for all the
world like a barber's basin. 1836 HOR. SMITH Tin Trump. (1876)192
A barber's block for supporting wigs. 1601 SHAKS. AlCs Well \\. ii. 16
Like a Barbers chaire that fits all butlockes. 1621 BURTON Anal. Mel.
in. iv. i. iii. (1651)665 A nolorious strumpet as common as a barbars
chair. 1708 MOTTEUX Rabelais' Pantagr. Prognost. v, Bonarobaes,
Barbers chairs, Hedge-whores. 1660 PEPYS Diary 5 June My Lord
called for ihe lieutenant's citlern, and with two candlesticks, with
money in ihem, for symbols, we made barber's music. 1849 LD.
BRAYBROOKE Pepys V. 22 1 Decker also menlions a ' barber's ciltern'
for every servingman to play upon. 1684 Land. Gas. No. 1977/4 To
be sold in York Building . . over against ihe Barbers Pole. Barber
(baubsi), v. rare. [f. prec. sb.] trans. To dress the beurd and hair of,
to trim, \\sofig. 1606 SHAKS. Ant. 4- Cl. n. ii. 229 Our Courteous
Anthony . . Being barber'd ten times o're goes to Ihe Feast. 1816 J.
GILCHRIST Philos. Etym. 145 Great grammarians . . capable of
mending our standard composilions, and of barbering them into ihe
fashion. BarbereSS (ba-ibares). ? Obs. rare. [f. BARBKR sb. + -ESS.]
A female barber. 1611 COTGR., Harbicre, a barbaresse ; a woman, or
she Barber. 1660 HE.XHAM Dutch Diet. , Barbierstcr, a Woman
barber, or a Barberesse. [In mod. Dicls.) Ba'rbering, vbl. sb. [f.
BARBER v. + -ING1.] The art or work of a barber ; shaving,
hairdressing. 1660 in Select. Harl. Misc. I 1793) 380 The King was
pleased to take notice of Richard's good barbering. 1860 SMILES
Self-Hclp ii. 29 Wigs were worn . . an important part of ihe barbering
business. Barberish. (ba-aborij), a. ; in 5 barborysh. [f. BAKIIKK + -
ISH.] Of or belonging to a barber. c 1440 Promp. Pan'. 24/1
Barborysh hous, barbitondium. t Ba'rberly, adv. Obs. rare-1, [f.
BARBER sb. + -I.Y-.] With a barber's methods, by shaving. '573 TI-
SSER Hnsb. (1878) in That barberlie handled., thou hast finish! Ihy
cure. Barberry, berberry (bauberi, bS-jbfti). Forms : 5 barbere, 6-7
barbery, -berie, -berrie, 6-8 berbery, 6-9 barbary, 9 berberry, 8-
barberry, [ad. med.L. barbaris (in Promp. Parv.), berberis, F.
berberis, i6th c. berbere, Sp. berberis, It. berberi, of unknown origin
and history. (An Arabic barbdrTs, sometimes cited, is a transcription
of the Latin employed by Arabian botanists ; there is no such word in
native dictionaries, Arabic or Persian. Cf. the earlier BARBARYNE.] 1.
A shrub (Berberis vulgaris) found native in Europe and N. America,
with spiny shoots, and pendulous racemes of small yellow flowers,
succeeded by oblong, red, sharply acid berries ; the bark yields a
bright yellow dye. Also the genus Berberis, of which several
American species are cultivated as ornamental shrubs in Europe.
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BARBICAN. 1. An outer fortification or defence to a city or

castle, esp. a double tower erected over a gate or bridge ; often
made strong and lofty, and serving as a watch-tower. a 1300 W. DE
BIBLESW. in Wright Voc. 130 Barbycons, anti-innralia. a 1300 Cursor
M. 10033 pe berbikans [7'. r. barbycans, -icans] seuen bat es a-bute,
pat standes thre bailies wit-vte . . er \K seuen virtus, e 1320 Cast.
Lone 697 Seue berbicans ber \xa\> i-wrouht . . And euerichon ha|>
}at and tour. 1494 FABYAN vn. 363 The Erie . . made bulwerkes and
barbycanys atwene the Toure and the cytie. 1596 SPKNSKR /''. Q. n.
ix. 25 Within the barbican a porter sate. 1633 T. STAFFORD Pac. Hit.
ii. (18211 520 The Barbican whereof being a stone wall of sixteene
foot in height. 1821 SCOTT Kenilw. xxv, The usual entrance . . over
which he had erected a gate-house, or barbican. fig. 1828 SCOTT /
•'. M. Perth iv, Uawn seemed to abstain longer than usual from
occupying her eastern barbican. b. Retained as name of a street in
London. 1632 MASSINGKR City Mad. n. i, A Barbican broker will
furnish me with outside. 1636 BLOUNT Glossogr.s. v., Hence
Barlnf.au by Red-cross-street in London. 1 2. A temporary wooden
tower or bulwark. 1489 CAXTON Faytes of A. n. xiv. 118 Barhaka'nes
of tymhre shal be made fast to the batelmentes. Ibid, xxxviii. 161 In
the grettest vesselles of werre men make towris and barbacanes 1 3.
A loophole in the wall of a castle or city, through which missiles
might be discharged. Obs. 1600 HOLLAND Livy xxiv. xxxiv. 532 He
caused certainc barbacanes or loopeholes, almost a cubit deep . . to
be pierced through the wals. Ba rbicanage. [ad. med.L.
barbicanagium, f. prec. : see -At; K.] Tribute paid for the
construction and maintenance of barbicans. [Monast. Angl. I. 976
Dekaagiao, muragio, paagio, Barbicanagio.] 1691 BLOUNT Law Diet.,
Barbkanagc, Money given to the maintenance of a Barbican, or
Watch-Tower. Carta 17 Kd. 3. 1749 Hist. Windsor 120 Free from
payment of Toll . . Paviage Barbicanage. Barbicel (.baubisel). [ad. It.
and mod.L. barbicella, dim. of barba beard ; cf. L. pedicellus
PEDICEL, dim. of pediculus, f. fcs foot.] One of the minute hooked
filaments which serve to interlock the barbules of a bird's feathers.
1869 GILLMORE Reft. «f Birds Introd. r86 The barbules themselves
frequently throw out filaments, .called barbicels. i874CouKS Birds .V.
Ii'. 270 The fine barbules and barbicels. BarbigeroUS (bajbi-d^eras),
a. [f. L. barbigcr •J. barba beard + -gcr bearing) + -OUS.J Bearded.
1731 in BAILKV. 1881 Syd. Xoc. Lex., Bartigerous . . applied to petals
that are hairy all over. Barbing ;baubirj 1, -M. s^}^ [f. BARB v. + -
ING "• .] 1 1. Shaving, liaiidressing ; clipping. Obs. 1485 Act. i Hen. I
'II, x. § 7 The Wolle shuld be as it was shorne . . withoute any
sortyng, barbyng or clakkyng. 1581 SAVILK Tacitns Hist. (1591) 215
SurTred his yellow haire to growe long without barbing. 1650
BULWEI: Antliropoinct. ii. 49 The Abantes . . were the first that used
this kind of barbing. 1727-51 CHAMBERS CycL, Barbing is sometimes
used in antlent statutes for sheering. attrib. 1639 DKNTON in Verncy
Papers (1853) 236 Until] you send me a pairc of barbinge sissers. 2.
Furnishing with barbs. Ba'rbing, ' vbl. sb.~ [f. BARB j^ +
iNG1.]BARDING. 1799 SCOTT Slifpli. T. in l.ock/iart (1839) II. 35 In
every stall . . Stood a steed in barbing bright. Ba'rbing, ///. a. [f.
BARB v. + -ING -.] a. Shaving ; stripping bare. b. F\irnishing with
barbs. 1630 J. TAYLOR (Water P.) Wks. m. 28 As barbing Autumne
robs the trees of leaues. Barbirousa, obsolete form of BABIROUSSA.
t Ba'rbit. Obs. rare — 1, [ad. L. barbilos, Gr. flapQiTos lyre.] —
BARBITON. (In quot. at/rib.) 1624 HKVWOOD i'lUnaik. 389 No Barbit
number suits this tragicke season. I Ba'rbitist. Obs. Also 7 barbatist.
[ad. I.. barbilista, ad. Gr. /3arj/3m barbiton, as the learned
Mersennus tells us to call all the varieties of the great viol family.
Barbie (ba-ab'l). Also 5 barbul, -ulle. [ad. It. barbola :-L. barbula,
dim. of barba. beard.] BAKB si>.1 4. . 1440 rroinp. Pan'. 24/1
Barbulle, sekenes of the mowthc. ^ 1595 MONTGOMKRIE in
Watson's Coll. HI. 13 (Jam,) The Botch, and the Barbies. 1607
TOFSELI. Four-f. Beasts 283 The Barbies or paps underneath the
tongue. 1753 CHAMBER Cyel. Supp., Barbies in the manege, knots of
superfluou flesh growing in the channels of a horse's mouth. Barbie,
obsolete form of BARBEL. BarbleSS (baubles), a. Unbarbed. 1881
Daily Nnvs 9 Feb. 5/2 Varieties of fish hooks . . the flint and barbless
bone articles of Esquimaux. Barborery, -orysh : see BARBEHY,
BAHBERISH. t Barbo'SC, a. Obs. rare-1. [? f. L. barba : see -USE.] ?
Bearded. 667 1716 M. DAVIES Ath. Brit. in. 7 More like Verbose and
Barbose or Morose Catechists . . than well educated Scholars.
tBa'rbot. Obs. rare-*, [a. OF. barbate, -ante, -oustc (= It. balbotta,
barbotta, mecl.L. barbota}, considered by Jal a contraction of barca-
botta, barque-botte, barrel-boat, from its appearance ; Du Cange
compares med.L. barlnita a kind of helmet.] A small vessel or sloop,
having its deck protected by an arched covering of leather. 1579
FKNTON Gnicciard. ix. (15991 397 With the losse of wo fustes, two
barbots, and . . fourtie smaller vessels. Barbotine ^baub^tin". [a.
V.liarbotine, f. barbotcr to work noisily with the bill in water or mud
(as a duck, etc.).] A thin creamy mixture of kaolin clay used to
ornament pottery. 1865 ELIZA METF.YARD Wedgwood II. 122 The
edging and letters in relief . . being formed in yellow barbotine or
slip. 1883 Standard 15 May 1/2 (Advt.) Lessons daily in Painting on
glass, china, and barbotine. Barbott (cf. F. barbotte], variant of
BUUBOT. Barbre, obsolete form of BARHAKY. II Barbnla (baubi/?la\
[L., dim. barba beard.] 1. A small beard ; see quot. ? Obs. 1688
HOLMF. Armory n. xvii. 392 The Barlmla or pn.k-adivant, or the little
tuft of hair just under the middle of the lower Lip. 2. ' The inner row
of fringes or teeth in the peristome of such mosses as Tortula?
'J'rcas. Hot. 1 866. Barbule (baubi;7l). [a.A.\-,.barbula; see prec.]
!.«= BARBEL 2. (So in med.L.) 1848 S. MAUNDER Treat. Art/. Hist.
Gloss., Barbulcs, filamentous appendages . . attached to the mouths
of certain fishes. 1872 BAKER Nile Tribtit. ix. 146 This fish has four
long barbules in the upper jaw. 2. One of the series of pointed, and
sometimes serrated or hooked, processes, fringing the barbs ol a
feather, and filling up the space between them. 1835 TODD Cyel.
Anat. ff I'liys. I. 35i>/2 'I he barbules are given off from either side
of the barbs. 1869 ( III.LMOKK AY//. | .y Birds Introd. 185 These
smaller ftlanicnls are the barbules, i by means of which the barbs are
retained in position. 3. Bot. = BAKBULA :. 1881 in .Syd. Sac. Lc.r.
Barbu lye, ^. •*>ulyeit brain. 1588 A. K[N. Si', arch. [f. prec. vb.]
Confusion, perplexity, quandary. 1820 HOGG Winter T. II. 41 iJ.\M.>,
I— stude— swutheryng what it avysit me neistc to doo in thilke
barbnlye. II Barca (ba-rka). [It. ; see BARK sbf\ A boat, skiff, barge.
1866 HOWELLS I'cnet. Life iv. 54 Drift along in the scarcely moving
barcas. 1883 F. PEARD Contradictions I. 29 A barca with serenaders
was slowly approaching. II Barca-longa. Obs. Also 7 barqua-, 7-8
barco-longo. [1'g. or OSp. ; lit. 'long barge.'] 'A large Spanish
fishing-boat, navigated with lugsails, and having two or three masts
. . common in the Mediterranean.' Falconer Diet. Marine i;Sij. 1681
Loud. l',az. 1608/1 With a Sloop and a liarqua-I.onga. 1691 Hid. No.
2708/1 The French., have only one Marco Longo. .left. 1762 MORE
in /'////. Trans. LII. 451 The selfsame barcalonga, or xebeck. 1790
BKATSON Nav. ai •carollc, It. barcariiohi, boatman's song; f. BARCA.]
|| 1. An Italian boatman. [1611 Panegyr. V. in Coryat's Crudities, The
Barcaruolo appetite His Gondola directed light Unto a female Klfc. 1
1854 BADHAM Halicnt. 200 We. . ordered our barcaroles to pull for
the tonnaro. 2. A song sung by Venetian barcaruoli as they i row
their gondolas ; a song or piece of music composed in imitation or
reminiscence of such songs. 1779 in WARING Diet. Mns. 1819
MOORE relief, .-\ir\\, When maidens sing sweet barcarolles. 1850
MRS. BROWNING Work f; Cent. Poems I. 336 The woman singcth . .
A pleasant chant, ballad or barcarolle. 1866 Cornli. Mag. Nov. 564
With a song full of dole, A forlorn barcarole, As my gondola glides.
Bareary, another form of BAHKAKY. tBarcelo'lia. Obs. [Name of a
town in Spain, with manufacture of silk.] A handkerchief or
neckerchief of soft twilled silk. 1795 WOLCOTT (P. Pindar) Dinali
Wks. 1812 IV. 187 Now on this handkerchief, so starch and white,
Was pinn'd a Barcelona, black and tight, c 1816 MRS. SHERWOOD
Stories Clt. Catecli. xiv. 117 She pulled out a Barcelona handkerchief.
1833 Tlte Amulet 224 \\fcth. .a silk Barcelona round his neck, like
any gentleman. II Barcmie [It., augmentative of BAKCA.] A vessel
used for freight in the Mediterranean. (Webster has an anglicized
form barcon.) 1847 CRAIG, Bttrcotie. Bard (baad), sb.1 5- ; also 6-7
(Sc.) baird, 6 barth, 6-7 bardh. [a. Gael, and Ir. ;rinne the Barth was
deceivid in this. 1584 POWKL Lloyd's Cambria 1 5 This word Bnnili
signified such as had knowledge uf things to come. 1594 Sn AKS.
Rich. Ill, iv. ii. 109 A bard of Ireland told me once, I should not live
long after I saw Richmond. 1596 SPENSER St. Iri-l. (J.I, There is
amongst the Irish a kind of people called bards, which are to them
instead of pucts : whose profession is to set forth the praises or
dispraises of men in their poems or rhime. 1610 HOLLAND C amdens
Brit. I. 421 The funerall song or Dump of a most ancient British
Bard. [AV/V, Poet ]. 1615 / 'at. Wchhin. 1 16631 Aivb, Call witli your
silver tones, that reverend Bardh. 1627 MAY LitcaH I. iR.l You bards
securely sung your elegyes {/ndistis cai-ntiiia Kariii\. 1780 1U KKL
,V/. J-'.fon. AV/ Wks. III. 261 The invasion of King Kdward and the
in;i-^;tcre of the liards. 1879 MACLMAR Celts ii. 18 The Druidic
order included .. the Bards or ' Glee-men.1 2. In early Lowland
Scotch used for : A strolling musician or minstrel into which the
Celtic bard hail degenerated, and against whom many laws were
enacted): in i6th c. a term of contempt, but idealized by Scott by
association with 4. 1449 Act. 6 Tff-v. // < 1507) § 2-j (lif there be
onie that makis them fuilisand are bairdes, or vlhers sic like rinnares
about. 1457 //•/(/. § So Sornares, bairde>, maister-fuU beimer.-, nr
fc-ii^iel fuilcs. Vi/isoo Kcnn.-llis Stctt. in Sir J. Balfour\ rnietieks 6So
All \agabunclis, fulls, bardis, scudlaris, and siclike idill pfpill, sal! be
brint on the cheek. Hoo, Hearts, Tongues, Figure, Scribes, Bards,
Poets, cannot Tbinke speake, cast write sing, number: hoo, His lone
to Anthony.) 1667 MILTON P. L. vn. 34 That wild rout that tore the
Thracian bard In Rhodope. 1704 Pori: Messiah 37 The Saviour
comes, by ancient hard, foretold. 1769 (JARH1CK Stf'ig Wks. 1785
II. 427 For the bard of all bards was a Warwickshire Bard. 1809
P>VRON (////.-I English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. 1834
CUNNINGHAM Burns 11850) 154/2 The character of the Ayrshire
bard. 1881 (title\ The Bard of Avon Birthday Text-book compiled
from -Shakespeare's Plays and Poems. 5. Comb., as bard-craft, bard-
like. 1763 J. BROWN Poetry fy Mas. i.x. 168 The first great Bardlike
Character we meet with lin China] is Confucius. 1808 SCOTT Mann.
Introd. 213 The keener rush of blood That throbs through bard in
bard-like mood. 1820 T. MITCHELL Aristrfk. I. 205 Ye verse-smiths
and bard-mechanicians. 1840 BROWNING Sordello n, 312
Forswearing bard-craft. Bard, s/>.' Olrs. exc. Hist. Also 5-6 barde.
[a. F. barde horse armour, also ' a long saddle for an ass or mule of
canvas' (Cotgr.) ; cf. It. barda horse-armour, also pack-saddle, and F.
bardelle pack-saddle. These, and the existence of a dial. F'. aubarde,
seem to identify the word with Sp. and 1'g. albarda, pack-saddle,
referred by Devic to Arab. i_co _JI al-bardazah, i.e. al the +
bardaiah ' stuffed pack - saddle for ass or mule ' (Bocthor), '
covering placed over the back of a beast to alleviate the pressure of
a pack-saddle ' (Freytag). Whether the Fr. sense ' defensive armour
for a horse' arose out of this is doubtful. Diez has compared ON.
bard the beak of a ship, bardi a beaked ship, a ' ram,' also (poet.) a
shield. Also erroneously called BARB, q.v.j 1. (Usually //.) A
protective covering for the breast and Hanks of a war-horse, made
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BARD. plates, or of leather set with metal spikes or bosses,

but sometimes (e.g. in tournaments) merely ornamental, and made
of velvet or other rich stuff. 1480 CAXTON* Chron. En p. \\\. 1
15201 82/2 Stedes . . trapped with yron bardes. 1577 HOLINSHED
Chron. III. 803/1 [The] bards of their horsses white veluet. 1611
GWILLIM Heraldry iv. xv. 232 The Shafron, the Cranet, and the Hard.
1727 51 CHAMBERS Cycl, s. v., The barde is an armour of iron or
leather, wherewith the neck, breast, and shoulders of the horse are
covered. 1830 JAMES Darnley xix, We shall find bards, if we want
them. 2. //. Armour composed of metal plates, formerly worn by
men-at-arms. 1551 KmvARD VI. Lit. Ran. (1858) II. 375 Men of
armes .. some with sieves and hauf cotes, some with bards and
staves. 1570 HOLJSSHED Scot. Chron. II. 129 A gentleman trimlie
trapped with bards of steele. 1603 FLORIO Mon~ taigne n. ix.
(1632) 225 A compleat French man at armes, with all his bards. 3.
Comb, bard-wise adv., as if with bards. 1577 HOLINSHED Chron. III.
801/2 The kings spare horsse trapped bard wise, with harnesse
brodred with bullion gold. *. By confusion (or misprint) for BAKU sb.\
4. 1653 C'onsid. Dissoh'. Crt. Chancery 24 To cure the Mallendcr,
Farses, Trunchions, Bards., in a horse. Bard (baid\ sb"> [a. F. banfc,
in same sense, transferred from the armour bardc ; see prec.] A thin
slice of bacon used to cover a fowl, etc. 1725 BRADLEY Earn. Diet. s.
v. \?ats Tongue, Bards or thin Slices of Bacon.. Having covered the
Tongues with other Beef-Stakes and Bacon Bards. 1736 BAILEY
Honsch. Diet., Bards, broad slices of Bacon, with which pullets,
capons etc. . . are sometimes covered before they are roasted. Bard
< hoidi, v\ \ also 6 baird, bayrd. [a. F. bardc-r ',15th c.), f. bardc
BAUD sb.- and ;1.] 1. To arm or caparison (a horse or man with
bards. (Chiefly in pa. pplc.; cf. HAIHIKD.) h. Cyrof>. 11631'! 71 To
unloose the horses. . to bridle them. .aUo to bard them. 1803
SCOTT Last. Minstr. i. xxix, Scarce half the charger's neck was seen ;
For he was barded from counter to tail. 1845 Ii/(n X.TC. Mag. LVIII.
• 775 ' 'Mt gallant bay charger barded with sti-el. 2. To cover (a fowl,
etc.) with slices of bacon. 1665 MOITIKT £ DEKN. Health's I m/>r. <
1746- 117 Whether roast Meat be best. . larded, barded, scorch'd or
basted. 1884 PII 11. LIS BROWNE in Girl's Own /'.June 4^1/2 Cooks
who art: afraid l« lard the breasts of game or poultry frequently
content themselves with barding the same. t Bard, v.- Obs. [app.
due to confusion of BAKB v. and BKAKD.] To clip ;- BAKU v. 2. 1641
Tenties de la Ley 6i'To bard or beard wooll, is to cut the head and
neck from the other part of the Fleece. 1693 W. ROBERTSON
Phrascol. Gen. 207 To Uard, or beard wool, ex t remit at CS wllcrum
tondere. t Bard, ///. c. Obs. [short for BATHDKI» ; peril, influenced
by BAKHKU.] — B.VKDKD i, 2, BAKHKD-. 1581 SIY\VARD Martial
/)tsfi/>. n. 127 The armed men, as well bard as light. 1609
HOLLAND Ainnt. Marcel xvi. x. 6} On bard horses \catapnracti
ctjnites\. . harnessed all over with good corselets, and bard about
[ftMcti] with guards (jf steele. 1627 DRAYTON Agiticonrt (1631" n
Kicli Sadies for ' the Light-horse and the Hard. t Ba rclan(e. Obs.
rare. [a. F. bardauc ' the ! Clote, burre-docke, or great btirre ; tlic
noisome, and stinking vcrmine, called, a Punic' ^Cotgr.).] 1. The
burdock. < 1250 in Wright Vcc. (W.) 7557 LaJ>fat bardane, t-lole. 2.
A bug. 1372 BOSSKU ELL Annorie n. 52 All his body is rouglie and
sh.irpe, as the bodie of a Bardan. i Barcla'sh. Obs. Also 6 bardass 6-
7 bardasso. 7 -assa, -achio. [a. Y. bardachc, cogn. with It. bardafda,
Sp. bantajo, -axo ; ])erh. ad. Arab. ^^J bardaj slave.] A catamite,
'cinicdus.' 1548 THOMAS ItaL Diet., 7.anzeri, bardasscs. 1600 ( ). V,.
Ri-pl. Libel \. ii. 43 Pubtikely maintaining bardassats and concubines.
1653 UROUHART Rabelais in. .\xv, BardaJiio that thou art ! 1721
MRS. CENTLIVKE Plat. Lady Epil. ioc With your false Calves, Bardasb,
and Kav'rites. Hence Bar-dashing, vbl. sb. Obs. 1678 BUTLER /fud.
in. i. 278 Raptures of Platonick Lashing, ' And chast Contemplative
Bardashing. Barded (bauded), ///. a. ff. BAUD v. + -EL>.] | Armed,
caparisoned, or covered with bards. 1501 DOUGLAS Pal. Hon. \. xlvii,
A bardit curser stout and I bald. ingCovSRDALH Joel ii. 4 They are to
loke vpon like j bayrded horses. 1596 DAM;! i Cotninc* Hist. I'r.
(16141298 i Two thousand men of armes barded. 1795 SOUTH KY
Joan of Arc vi. 300 A man-at-arms upon a barded steed. 1880
DISRAELI Endym. lix. 267 'J'he bells of a barded mule an- ; nounced
the Jester. •" By confusion or misprint for BAKBED. 1598 SVLVKSTFK
Du Bartas i. v. 41/3 If the Scolopendra j have suckt-in Tlie sowr-
iweet morsell with the barded Pin. tBardel(le. Obs. rare. [a. F.
bardcllc (It. bardella) : see BARD sb.-] A pack-saddle. 1603 FLORIO
.l/. Dogleish. Bardisni ba-jdiz'm). [f. -as prec. + -ISM.] The system,
doctrine, or principles of bards. 1716 M. DAVITS Ath. Brit. n. 191
Welsh poetick Bardi>m is best cultivated in the lonicks of
^^erionethshire. 1863 Ki-at/.-r No. -;•>. 75 That native Hardism
which had been part and parcel of the aboriginal Druidism. i Bardist.
Obs. rare.-1 ff. as prec. + -1ST.] An adherent or follower of the
banls. 1588 J. HAK\KV Discmtrs. Probl. 84 Neither Persian Magician .
. nor French Druyde or Bardist. Bardlet iba-jdhH). [See -LET.] -next.
1867 Athensenm No. 2062. 587/2 'I'he gossamer conceits of our
bardlet. 1883 K. NOEL in Content f. RCL>. Nov. 716 That the
Universe is . . ' a suck and a bell ' . . is . . the encouraging strain of
our latest bardlets. Bardling bfiudliij). [f. as jirec. (--LING.] A young
or inexperienced poet ; a jioctaster. 1813 G. COI.MAN Br. Grins, I
'agarics l''ind.\{\, The bardliii.^ who in afternoon.-. Warbles bis
published lays to melting times. 1858 MAILEY Age 64 So woe to you
young bard lings scant of brains. I! Bardocucullus. Obs. [L.] A Gallic
peasant's woollen cloak, with a hood or cowl, worn also by monks.
Hence Bardocucullated (= F. bardoiOiiillt'}) wearing a cowled cloak.
1611 COKYAT Crudities 225 A Bardocullus, that is, a Shepht-ard's
ragged and weather-beaten cloake. 1708 MOITEUX Rabelais v. in.
These monkhawks whom you see bardocumllatud with a Hag.
Ba'rdship. [f. BAUD sb.} + -SHIP.] The office, dignity, or personality
of a bard ; cf. lordship. 1787 Hi KXS Jiordcr 7'c//riGlol)e)56p The
Captain .. showed a particular respect to my hardship. 1811 UVKON
Hints front I lor. 478 Boys shall hunt your bardship up and down.
Bardy (bft'idi), rt. St. [Origin uncertain : pcrh. f. BAUD j-/'.1 sense 2.]
Hold-faced, defiant; audacious, pert. Hence Ba'rdily (u/z>.,
Ba'rdiness. 1788 K. GAI.I.OWAV Poems 202 MAM.) Shun the pert
and bardy dame, Wlioe words run swiftly void of sense. Ibid. 64
They, hardily, and hardily, Kac'd home or foreign foe. 1826 j.
WM.SON Xoct. Amir. Wits. 1855 I. 118 Haudin up the . . chin o' him
in a niaist bardy and impertinent manner. Bare ,bc-u\ «., adv., sb.
Forms : i beer, 3 bar, 4 5 baar (ts-S .SV. bair), i- bare. fCommon
Tent: OE. far OCXS., OHO., UllG.tar, MDu. baert G. and Du. baar, ON.
berr, Da., Sw. bar}:— OTeut. ^baz-oz, cogn. w. Lith. basas, OSlav.
bos A barefoot ; Aryan *bhos-6s. The original short vowel is
lengthened in mod.Eng., Du., and Ger.] A. adj. I. \Vithout covering.
1. Of the bodyor its parts: Unclothed, naked, nude. « 1000 C
aedmon's Gen. (Grein) 783 Hare hie ^es;Vwon heora lichoman.
1297 R. Gi.ouc. 514 Manie in hor bare fleas horn late croici vaste. <
1386 CHAUCKR Knts. T. 900 On hir bare knees adoun they falle.
11400 Dcstr. Troy xxx. 12269 Found en bare in his bed. 1596 SHAKS.
Merck. V. iv. i. 252 Lay bare your bosome. 16x1 BIBLE Isa. xlvii. 2
Make bare the legge, vncouer the thigh. 1713 STEELK Engluhm. No.
1.2 He filled my Hat. .and then put it upon my bare Head. 1853
Arab. Xts. iRtldg.) 229 Robbers, who stripped him as bare as my
hand. p b. Stripped to the shirt or other tinder-garment ; cf. naked,
Gr. yvpvus. 1330 R. BRUNNK Chron. 161 Bare in serke and breke
Isaac oway fled. 1866 KINUSLEY Hcrew. xiv. 181 You bid him go and
fight in hii bare shirt. T c. Bare eye : cf. * naked eye/ Obs. 1664
POWER Ex/>, Philos. \. 18 Whose whole bulk to the bare eye is
quite indi>ccrnable. 1790 IMISON .SV//. Art. I. z6j Holds his finger .
. between his bare eye and an object. BARE. 2. With the head
uncovered, arch. = BAREHEADED. i 13,86 CHAIXER Prol. 685
Dischevele, sauf his cappe, he rood al bare. 1596 SHAKS. Merch. I'.
\\. ix. 44 How many then should couer that stand bare? 1633 G.
HERBERT Ch. Porch. Ixviii, When once thy foot enters the church, be
bare. oN///.s^..AV& 1 1 1. xvi. 594 They all stood bare, whilst the
Heraulds proclaim'd the King. 3. fig. Unconcealed, undisguised, open
to view. 1 950 Lindtsf. Gosp. Matt. v. 46 Ah ne & ba;r-suinni?;o Sis
doas? 1526 TINDALE Ileb. iv. 13 All thynges are naked and bare
unto the eyes off hym. 1671 MILTON Samson 902 Bare in thy guilt
how foul must thou appear ! 1781 COWPER Charity 494 He hides
behind a magisterial air His own offences, and strips others bare.
1827 KEBLE Chr. Y. 4 S. Lent xii, Bare to the rude world's withering
view. 4. Of natural objects, as earth, heavens, trees : Without such
covering as they have at other times, e.g. without vegetation,
clouds, bark, foliage, etc. c 885 K. ALFRED Roeth. xxxiv. § 10 Sumna
on clu5um, sumne on barum sondum. t"H75 Lamb. I/oni. 181 Durh
ane godliese wude in-to ane bare felde. a 1300 Cursor M. 1321
Braunches .. o bark al bare. 1523 FITZHERB. Stirv. xxxv. (1539) 54
They wylle eate the grounde moste barest. 1611 BIBLE Joel i. 7 He
hath .. barked my figge tree ; he hath made it cleane bare. 1720
I.ond. Gaz. No. 5827/1 The Country between the two Armies being
eaten bare. 1806 WOKDSW. Ode Itmnort. 13 The Moon doth with
delight Look round her when the heavens are bare. i86a STANLEY
Jew. Ch. 11877* *• "• 22 Hills which are now bare were then
covered with forest. 5. Of persons and animals : Stripped of a
natural covering ; deprived of hair, wool, flesh, etc.; bald. a 1300
Cursor M. 5165 His heued it was all bar for eild. 1387 TRKVISA
Ittgdcn I. 115 Golgotha i,s to menynge a baar scone. £'1450
HENRYSON Talc of Dog 112 The Scheip .. Nakit and bair, syne to the
feild couth pas. 1591 SHAKS. Tivo Gent. iv. i. 36 The bare scalpe of
Robin Hoods fat Fryer. 1783-94 BF.AKE Chimncy-riv. ^ When your
head's bare, You know that the soot cannot spoil your white hair. 6.
Wanting appropriate covering, equipment, or array ; unfurnished,
uncovered. (izoo Trin. Colt. Horn. 139 Bare eor5 lo bedde, and hard
ston to bolatre. -1420 Sir A madace xiv, For his mete he wold not
spare, Burdes in the hallewere neuyr bare. .1600 AW'. Hood iRitson'
xvi. 44 When others cast in their bated hooks, The bare lines into
the sea cast he. 1607 TOPSELL Fonr-f. Beasts 240 It is good to use
your horse to backing both saddled and bare. 1722 SKWEL Hist.
Quakers (17951 I. !v. 254 Fain to lie upon the bare boards. 1810
SCOTT Lady of L. \. xi, Nor were these earth-born Castles bare, Nor
lacked they many a banner fair. b. Without armour or weapons,
unarmed. ? Obs. 1205 LAV. 17346 pa Irisce weoren bare, c \ypGaw.
$ Gr. Knt. 277 If |iou crane batayl bare. Here fayle/ bou not to fy^t.
1549 CHEKE Hurt. Scdit. (1641 1 25 Yee . . hewed him hare, whom
yee could not hurt armed. 1604 SHAKS. Oth. i. iii. 175 Men do their
broken Weapons rather vse, Then their bare hands. c. Of cloth:
Napless, threadbare. Of weapons: Unsheathed. Bare poles in Naut. :
masts with no sails set. f c 1386 CHAUCER Prol. 260 With thredbare
cope, as is a poure scolere.l 1483 Act i Rich. Ill-, viit. Pream., Course
Clothes . . bare of Threde. 1591 SHAKS. Tivo Gent. n. iv. 45 Their
bare Liueries. 1604 — Oth. v. i. 3 Weare thy good Rapier bare. 1753
CHAMBERS Cycl. Snpp. s.v. , A cloth is said to be bare or naked,
when the nap is too short. 1780 COXE Rttss. Disc. 130 Drove 24
hours under bare poles. 1855 TENNYSON Lt. Brigade, Flash'd all
their sabres bare. II. Stripped of surroundings, contents, property. f
7. Defenceless, unprotected, deserted. Obs. 1297 R. GLOUC. 388 pe
wule hii were in Normandye & Engelond so bare, c 1400 Destr. Troy
iv. 1320 So bare leuyt, Vmfoldyng witli his fos bat he ne fle might.
155* Emv. VI. Lit. Rein. (1858) II. 353 If he found a bare company .
. to set upon them. T 8. Laid waste, desolate. Obs. St. Edm. Knig 20
in E. E. P. 11862) 87 Robbede al 74 CHAUCER And. are. 1593
SHAKS. Lncr. 1741 Like a late-sack 'd island . . Bare and unpeopled.
1642 MILTON Sonn. viii, To save the Athenian walls from ruin bare.
9. Without possessions, destitute, indigenljnecdy; scantily furnished.
Const, of, rarely in : see b. 1205 LAY. 3420 pat ich bare sitte,
wunnen biraeued. cizSo .StirniKn 44 in E. E. P. ( 1862! 5 He nel no}t
leue his eir al bare, c 1480 Childe Rristtnve 554 in Hazl. E. P. P. \
1864) 131 First was riche and sitthen bare. 1538 BALE Thre Lawes
1084 As bare as Job. 1755 SMOLLETT Qui.r. (18031 '• 233 Bare I
was born, and bare I remain. 1827 KEBLI; Chr. Y. Sexages, ix, Yet
mercy hath not left us bare. b- f 1220 Bestiary 144 in O. E. Misc. 5
Danne fle neddre is .. bare of his brest alter. -1380 Sir Fcrnnib. 1641
Of blisse yam al bare. 1658 SIR T. BROWN E//^rV/ A bare treasury.
Nursery Ri»u\ Mother Hubbcrd, When she got there the cupboard
was bare. f b. Poor in quality, paltry, worthless. Obs. 1399 LANGL.
Rich. Redeless iv. 70 So blynde and so ballid and bare was f?e reson.
1:1400 Destr. Troy \\. 2502 Soche bargens are bytter, J?at hafe a
bare end. 1592 SHAKS. I'en. $Ad. 188 What bare excuses makest
thou to be gone. 1596 — i Hen. iyt in. it. 13 Such poore, such bare .
. attempts. < 1305 St. Edm. A ing 20 m E. E. P. 1 1862) 87 Robbede
al bat ne fond & makede J>ane toun bar. c 1374 CHAUCER Anel. ff
Arc. 62 So desolate stotle Thebes and so bare. 1593 SHAKS.
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BABE. c. Without literary or artistic effect; bald, meagre,

unadorned. 1:1400 Dcstr. Troyfto\. 74 Cornelius translated it . .but
he brought it so hreff, and so bare leuyt, bat no lede might have
likyng to loke berappon. 1597 MORLEY Introd. Mus. 84 In long
resting the harmonic seemeth bare. 1798 FFRRIAR Enf. tlistor. in
Illustr. Sterne 248 The bare line of general narration is so happily
ornamented. f d. Simple, without luxury ; unpolished, rude. 1583
STUBBKS Anal. Alms. n. 72 Better it is to haue bare feeding than
none at all. 1-159* SPENSER ij.) Yet was their manners then but
bare and plain. 1603 KNOULES Hist. Turks \ifa\) 76 This bare
Northren people [the Tartars]. f e. Bare wind in Naut. : one too
much ahead to fill the sails well ; scant. Obs. 1682 Land. Gaz. No.
1744/4 This morning sailed the whole Fleet . . with a bare Wind at
N.W. and by N. 1691 Ibid. No. 2671/4 Having but a bare Wind, and
little of it. 1694 LUTTKELI. Brief Rcl. III. 320 The whole fleet was out
of sight, with a bare wind at North. III. Without anything of the
nature of addition. 11. Without addition, mere, simple ; • — and
nothing else, —only. Bare contract in Law : an unconditional promise
or surrender. 1:1200 Moral Ode 137 in Lamb. Horn. 167 Hefde he
bon her enne del oSer twa bare tide. 1-1313 SHOREHAM 35 Man
mo}e isaued be Thon bare repentannce. 1393 GOWEK Conf. II. 286,
I set it at no more accompt, Than wolde a bare straw amount. 1577
HANMER Anc. Eccl. Hist. 11619) 104 They taught Christ to be . . but
a bare Man. 1633 G. HERBERT Love Unkn. 40 in Temple 122 Many
drunk bare wine. 1641 Tc-rmes de la Ley 211 Bare contract, or
naked promise, is where a man bargaineth or selleth his lands, or
goods . . and there is no recornpence appointed to him for the doing
thereof. . This is a naked contract, and voyd in Law. 1697 C'tess D'
Annoy s Tret-'. (1706) 109 Who can do you hurt by bare looking on
yon. 1711 ADDISON .Spect. No. 69. 5 Nature indeed furnishes us
with the bare Necessaries of Life. 1769 Jnnius Lett. xiii. 56 A bare
contradiction will have no weight. 1844 LD. BROUGHAM Brit. Const,
xix. § 6 (1862) 373 A bare majority of seven to five. 1 12. From the
idea of completeness in itself ; Sheer, absolute, very, actual. Otis.
1205 LAY. 20876 Ich habbe hine idriuen 1 to ban baredasfie. ,( 1330
Sire Degarre 561 Thei he be the bare qued, He schal a-doune. c
1400 Destr. Troy xxiv. 9682 With strong batcll 6 brem till the bare
night. Ibid. 10805 Born to be burghe in the bare tyme, Honerable
Ector in armes to helpe. IV. Comb. a. specially bare-arse, dial, name
of the Little Grebe ; to go on bare-board, to play without a stake on
the gaming-table ; bare-bone, a lean, skinny person ; bare-man,
obs. term in Sc. Law for a bankrupt or ' broken ' man. b. adjs.
formed by bare qualifying a sb., as barebreech, -leg, -limb, bare-
weight (also adv. : see 1 1 ), BARE-FOOT, -HEAD, equivalent in
sense to c. parasynthetic adjs. formed on prec. + -En, as bare-
armed, (having the arms bare), bare-breedicd, -chested, legged, -
throated, -walled, d. ppl. adjs. in which bare acts as a verbal
complement, as bare-bitten, -eaten, -gnawn, -worn. a. 1655 FULLER
Cli. Hist. vi. vii. § 3 III. 493 To vye ready silver with ihe King of
Spaine, when he . . was fain to go on bare-hoard. 1596 SHAKS. i
Hen. IV, n. iv. 358 Heere comes leane Jacke, heere conies bare-
bone. 1581 Acts Jas. VI (1597) §110 To hound out hair-men and
vagabounds, to the attempting of sik foull . . enormities. 1609
SKKNE Reg. Maj, Table 66 Bairman . . is he quha makes cession of
his gudes and geir to his creditours. a 1763 SHENSTONE Ess. Wks.
d765'i72A Miser, if honest, can be only honest bare-weight. 1801
HAN. MORE Wks. VIII. 248 Such bare-weight protestants prudently
condition for retaining the Popish doctrine of indulgences. b. 1205
(see BAREFOOT]. 1483 Cath. Angl. 21/1 Barlege, incaligatus. 1377
STANVHURST Descr. Irel. in Holinsh. VI. 51 Such barebreech brats as
swarme in the English pale. 1583 — .-Eneiti 137 Baerlym swartye
Pyracmon. 1587 Cats, f.oyall Subj. (Collier) 25 Bareleg and barefoot
they wandred. C. (-1350 Will. Palcrne 2767 A barlegged bold boie.
1562 I. HEVWOOD Prov. ft Kf'gr. (1867) 16 To beg a breeche of a
bare arst man. 1580 NORTH Pltttarcft (1676) 2.89 He would go out
bare-necked to the waste. 1595 SHAKS. John v. ii, 177 In his fore-
head sits A bare-rib'd death. 1647 R. STAVVLTON Juvenal 209 Then
must bare-finger' d [ — ringless] Pollio beg or fast. 1814 SCOTT
Wav. xv, Four bare-legged dairy-maids. 1828 — F. M. Perth vi, These
bare-breeched Dunniewassals. 1873 SYMONDS Grk. Poets xii. 403
Stately maidens and bare-chested youths. d. 1577 tr. Bitllinger's
Decades Pref. , Ministers .. bare bitten of their Patrons. 1603 FLORIO
Montaigne I. xxvii. (1632) 96 A subject, common, bare-worne, and
wyer-drawne. 1605 SHAKS. Lmrv. iii. 122 By Treasons tooth barc-
gnawne. 1627 MAY Lucan ix. 7 On their bare-eaten ground. 1770
GOLDSM. DCS. I 'ill. 308 Ev'n the bareworn common is denied. B.
adv. [cf. Sw. bara only, Ger. baar] fl. Thoroughly, completely. (Cf. A 1
2.1 Obs. rare. c 1340 Gau'. $ Gr. Knt. 465 5et breued watz hit ful
bare, A ineruayl among bo menne. 2. With numeral adjs. : No more
than, at most ; scarcely, BAKELV. arch, or Obs. 1:1325 "K. K- Allit. P.
B. 1573 Out-taken bare two & benne be pe brydde. 1597 J. PAYNE
Royal Exch. 46 Errors., of bare 80 yeres continuans. 1678 OTWAY
Friendsh. in F. 24 As hot-headed with my bare two Bottles, as a
drunken Prentice. 1716 Lond. Gaz. 5410/4 Weighs bare ten Grains.
fC. sl>. [the adj. used atsol.] Obs. 1 1. A naked part of the body ;
the bare skin. t 1300 St. Brandan 612 And helede al aboute his bodi,
nas ther no bar on him bileved. < 1400 Destr. Troy xiv. 5821 Hit shot
brough..be shire made, to be bare of be body. 1526 TINDALE Mark
xiv. 51 Cloothed in linnen apoll the 669 bare. 1611 BEAUM & FL.
King •$• -Va A"- »• 45 If ever ' touch'd any bare of her. fig. r F.pigr.
(1867) 24 Where saddles lacke Better ride on a pad, than on the
horse bare backe. Mod. The renowned bareback rider. Bare-backed
(.beViboekt), a. [see BARE a. 6.] 1. With the back bare. 1831
CAKLVLE Sart. Res. in. vii, Some barefooted, some almost bare-
backed. 2. esf. Of a horse : Without saddle, unsaddled ; also with
ride as adv. 1628 LE GRYS tr. Barclay's Argents. 123 A Horse .. not
bare-backt . . but with those trappings which the kings there did vse.
1854 J. STEPHENS Centr. Amer. 277 Mounted on a bare-backed
horse. II Bareca, -ka (barJ-ka). [a. Sp. bareca, bayrica; cf.
BAKUICO.] A small cask or keg, a BUEAKKU. 1773 in Hawkesworth
I'oy. X. 439 Barecas, or small casks which are filled at the head.
1867 SMYTH Sailor's ll'orabk., Barcka. 1875 BEDFORD Sailors
Pocket-bk. v. 155 A Bareca for Beacon should be fitted as a buoy.
Bared (be-ud). ///. a. [f. BARE v. + -ED.] 1. Made bare, exposed to
view, naked, nude. ^1300 [see BARE v. i.] 1552 HUI.OET, Bared,
nudatus. 1583 BABINGTON Coinmandm. 115901 432 As good Sem
and Japheth did to their bared father. 1842 TKNNYSON CEnone 137
Her clear and bared limbs. 2. Stripped, denuded, cleared of covering.
1382 WYCLIE Num. xx. 19 Bi the beryd weye [Vnlg. via. trita\ we
shulen goon. 1579 SPENSER Sheph. Cal. Feb. 112 His bared
boughes were beaten with stormes. 1825 WATEKTON Wander, l . i.
88 A rood or two of bared ground. Barefaced (.be^uG'st), a. ,\\\ use
sometimes approaching an adv. ; cf. BAREFOOT, -ED). 1. With the
face uncovered : hence a. with no hair on the face, beardless,
whiskerless, also fig. ; b. without mask or vizard. 1590 SHAKS. Mids.
N. l. ii. loo Some of your French Crownes haue no haire at all, and
then you will play barefac'd. 1602 — Ham. IV. v. 164 They bore him
bare fac'd on the Beer. ^1762 LADY MONTAGUE Lett. xcii. 151 The.,
ball, to which he has invited a few bare-faced, and the whole town
en masque. 1869 BI.ACKMOKE Lorna n. vii. 37 Under the foot of a
barefaced bill. 1883 Harper's Mag. Feb. 485/2 Though others be by
whiskers graced, A lawyer can't be too barefaced [cf. 3 a]. 2.
Unconcealed, undisguised, avowed, open. arch. 1605 SHAKS. Macb.
III. i. 119 Though I could With barefac'd power sweepe him from my
sight. 1687 R. L.ESTRAMGE Ansiv. Diss. i, I have liv'd Open and
Barefac'd . . I wit! not Dye in a Disguise. 1766 tr. Beceariats Ess.
Crimes xx. U793^ 77 The assaults of barefaced and open tyranny. 3.
Hence by gradual pejoration : Audacious, impudent, shameless : a.
of persons, b. of actions, etc a. a 1674 CLARENDON Hist. Kelt.
(1704) III. xin. 365 They barefaced own'd all that the
Commissioners had propounded. 1720 OZELL I'ertot's Ram. Rep. II.
xnl. 260 That Caesar was invading the Public Liberty, barefac'd. 1838
DICKENS O. Twist iii, ' Of all the artful and designing orphans . . you
are one of the most bare-facedest.' b. 1712 ADDISON Spect. No 458
f 7 Hypocrisy is not so pernicious as bare-faced Irreligion. 1850 MRS.
STOWE Uncle Tom's C. xx. 207 Indignant at the barefaced lie.
Ba'refacedly, adv. [t prec. + -LYB.] In a barefaced manner ; openly,
shamelessly. 1684 BURNET tr. Mores Utop. 56 In Courts . . a man
must bare-facedly approve of the worst Councils. 1865 CARLYLE
Frcdk. Gt. IV. xn. xi. 244 Barefacedly unjust. Barefacedness. [f. as
prec. + -NESS.] Openness, effrontery, shamelessness. ,11674
CLARENDON Hist. Reb. I. n. 117 They resorted . . to Mass . . with
the same Barefacedness. 1823 COBBETT Rnr. Rides 427 The
barefacedness of the lie. Barefoot (be>j.fut), a. and adv. Rarely 5-6
barefeet (//.). [OE. byrfot, early ME. barfot ; cf. ON. berfattr adj., LG.
barfot, G. barfusz. See BARE a. IV.] With the feet bare or naked,
without shoes or stockings on : a. as adj., passing (with verbs of
motion) into b. adv. a. ciooo Peccat. Mcd. (Bosw.) Bzrfdt, nudipes.
1205 LAV. 8843 Sone he dude hine bar-fot (1250 bareuotj. a 1300
Cursor M. 6072 Lok bat bai be scod ilkan . . and barfote nan. 1592
SHAKS. Rom. f, Jul. v. ii. 5 Going to find a barefoote Brother out.
1679 Hist. Jetzer 38 The Covent of the Bare-foot Friers. 1818 J.
HOBHOUSE Ifist. Illustr. 253 'I he Emperor . . undertook a barefoot
pilgrimage to Mount Garganus. 1870 LOWELL Study H-'ittci. 43
Burns, whose barefoot Muse got the color in her cheeks by vigorous
exercise in all weathers. b. ^1230 After. R. 420 Ine sumer . . to gon
and sitlen baruot. 61386 CHAUCER I-'rankl. 'I'. 349 Thy Temple in
Delphoswol I barefoot seke. 1483 CAXTON Co/.] = prec , and more
frequently used by recent writers. a. ci53ol.i>. BERN As
Arth.Lyt.Bryt. (18141 268 Clianon-, preestes, and clarkes . . all
barefoted. 1598 HAKI.UYT I'oy. I. 109 Wee stoode . . bare-footed
and bare-headed. 1670 G. II. Hist. Cardinals I. II. 46 The Preacher
was a barefooted Franciscan. 1884 Q. VICTORIA More Leaves 12;
Picturesque barefooted lasses. b. 1780 COXE RHSS. Disc. 104 The
greatest part go barefooted. 1847 LONC.I'-. F.i'. H. i, Thus did that
poor soul wander . . Bleeding, barefooted over the shards and
thorns. II Barege (bare'g). [Fr. ; from Bareges or liari-cge, a village
in trie Ilautes Pyrenees, France.] 1. A light, silky dress-fabric,
resembling gauze, originally made at Bareges. 1851 Times 4 Apr.
11/2 Barege shawls and silks. 1864 Linnet's Trial I. m. iv. 258
MissCarrwore a slate-coloured barege. 2. A mineral water obtained
at Bareges. Hence Baregin e, a glairy organic substance found in
many mineral waters after exposure to the air. i8ii Hooi'ER Mcd.
Diet., Barege waters are remarkable for a very smooth soapy feel.
1863 WATTS Diet. C/tem . I. sou Baregin is in the moist state a
transparent, gelatinous, nearly colourle-s substance . . When dried,
it furms a horny mass. Barehead (.bc^uhed). a. and adv. arch. --
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