bankrupt, a. insolvent; depleted, impoverished. Antonym: solvent.

bankrupt, v. impoverish, ruin, break.

bankruptcy, n. insolvency. Antonym: solvency.

banner, n. flag, standard, gonfalon, ensign, oriflame, vexillum,
banderole, colors, pavilion.

banquet, n. junket, regalement, feast.--v. feast, junket,
regale.

banter, n. joking, jesting, pleasantry, badinage, chaff, raillery,
persiflage, asteism.

banter, v. jest, chaff, rally, roast.

baptism, n. baptizing; parabaptism, pedobaptism; hypothetical,
baptism. Associated Words: baptize, christen, font, baptistery,
baptismal.

bar, n. obstruction, barrier, impediment, obstacle, barricade,
hindrance; shoal, sandbar, bank; ingot; lever, pole, rod; tribunal,
judgment-seat; jimmy, betty.

bar, v. debar, except, exclude; obstruct, restrain, hinder.

barbarian, a. barbarous, savage, rude, uncivilized.--n. savage.

barbarism, n. savagery, savagism; outrage, brutality, atrocity;
vulgarism, impropriety (of speech), solecism.

barbarity, n. barbarism, barbarousness, inhumanity, brutality.

barbarous, a. uncivilized, barbarian, inhuman, truculent, brutal.

barber, n. tonsor. Associated Word: tonsorial.

barber's itch. sycosis.

bare, a. naked, nude, undressed, denuded, unveiled, exposed,
undraped, _in puris naturalibus_; unadorned, bald, meager, unembellished,
uncolored, unvarnished; empty, destitute, unfurnished; threadbare,
pileworn, napless; meer, alone, sheer.

bare, v. denude, strip, divest, expose, undress, unmask.

barefaced, a. unmasked, undisguised, glaring, notorious; shameless,
unabashed, brazen, audacious.

barefooted, a. unshod, discalced, discalceated.

bareness, n. nakedness, nudity.

bargain, v. stipulate, agree, contract, covenant; barter.

bark, n. cortex. Associated Words: cortical, corticate,
corticiferous, corticiform, phleophagus, corticose, periderm, liber,
decortication, decorticator.

bark, v. peel, flay, skin, decorticate; bay, yelp, yap.

barn, n. stable.

barrel, n. cask, cade, butt, puncheon, tierce, hogshead, keg,
rundlet; (of wine) 31-1/2 gallons; (of flour) 196 pounds. Associated
words: gauntree, cooper, bilge, stave, hoop, chine.

barren, a. sterile, agenestic, infecund, unprolific, unprocreant;
unproductive, unfruitful, unfertile, effete, desert; unprofitable,
fruitless, unremunerative, empty; stupid, dull, unimaginative, prosaic,
devoid, uninspiring, uninteresting. Antonyms: prolific, fecund, virile,
fruitful, fe