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- city, northeastern Orissa state, eastern India, lying along the Burhabalang River. Founded about 1800, the city is a trade centre for rice, sugarcane, and timber and has some industry, including ...
- Barisal
- town, south-central Bangladesh. It lies in the Ganges (Padma) River delta on an offshoot of the Arial Khan River. Incorporated as a municipality in 1876, it is a transshipment centre ...
- barite
- the most common barium mineral, barium sulfate (BaSO4). Barite occurs in hydrothermal ore veins (particularly those containing lead and silver), in sedimentary rocks such as limestone, in clay deposits formed ...
- baritone
- (from Greek barytonos, "deep-sounding"), in vocal music, the most common category of male voice, between the bass and the tenor and with some characteristics of both. Normally, the baritone parts ...
- baritone
- valved brass instrument pitched in B♭ or C; it is a popular band instrument dating from the 19th century and was derived from the cornet and flugelhorn (valved bugle). It ...
- barium
- (Ba), chemical element, one of the alkaline-earth metals of main Group IIa of the periodic table. The element is used in metallurgy, and its compounds in pyrotechnics, petroleum mining, and ...
- bark
- sailing ship of three or more masts, the rear (mizzenmast) being rigged for a fore-and-aft rather than a square sail. Until fore-and-aft rigs were applied to large ships to reduce ...
- bark
- in woody plants, tissues external to the vascular cambium (the growth layer of the vascular cylinder); the term bark is also employed more popularly to refer to all tissues outside ...
- bark beetle
- any member of the insect family Scolytidae (Ipidae, with more than 2,000 species) of the order Coleoptera. They are cylindrical, usually under 6 mm (0.25 inch) long, brown or black ...
- bark painting
- nonwoven fabric decorated with figurative and abstract designs usually applied by scratching or by painting. The basic clothlike material, produced from the inner bark, or bast, of certain trees (see ...
- bark-gnawing beetle
- any member of the insect family Trogossitidae (Ostomidae), containing about 500 species, most of which are tropical. Bark-gnawing beetles range from 5 to 20 mm (0.2 to 0.8 inch) and ...
- barkentine
- sailing ship of three or more masts having fore-and-aft sails on all but the front mast (foremast), which is square rigged. Because of the reduction of square sails, it required ...
- Barker, George
- English poet mostly concerned with the elemental forces of life. His first verses were published in the 1930s, and he became popular in the '40s, about the same time as ...
- Barker, Lady Mary Anne
- writer best known for her book Station Life in New Zealand (1870), a lively account of life in colonial New Zealand.
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