barley : Idioms & Phrases

• (Zoöl.), the siskin.

Webster 1913

• noun a brittle transparent candy made by melting and cooling cane sugar
  barley candy.
  

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• noun European annual grass often found as a weed in waste ground especially along roadsides and hedgerows
  Hordeum murinum; barley grass.
  

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• sugar boiled till it is brittle (formerly with a decoction of barley) and candied.

Webster 1913

• noun used to feed infants
  

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• a decoction of barley, used in medicine, as a nutritive and demulcent.

Webster 1913

Bar"ley-bree` noun

Etymology

Lit. barley broth. See Brew.

Definitions

1. Liquor made from barley; strong ale. Humorous Scot. Burns.

Webster 1913

• noun a brittle transparent candy made by melting and cooling cane sugar
  barley candy.
  

WordNet

• noun grass yielding grain used for breakfast food and animal feed and in malt beverages
  Hordeum vulgare.
  

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• noun barley grown for its highly ornamental flower heads with delicate long silky awns; North America and northeastern Asia
  Hordeum jubatum; foxtail barley; squirreltail grass.
  

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• noun annual barley native to western North America and widespread in southern United States and tropical America
  Hordeum pusillum.
  

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• noun barley ground into small round pellets
  

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• kernels of barley, ground so as to form small, round grains.

Webster 1913

• noun barley grown for its highly ornamental flower heads with delicate long silky awns; North America and northeastern Asia
  Hordeum jubatum; foxtail barley; squirreltail grass.
  

WordNet

• noun European annual grass often found as a weed in waste ground especially along roadsides and hedgerows
  Hordeum murinum; barley grass.
  

WordNet

• (Bot.), a kind of grass (Hordeum murinum) much resembling barley; squirrel grass. See under Squirrel.

Webster 1913

• a kind of barley that is sown in autumn.

Webster 1913