Hypertext Webster Gateway: "barn"

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)

Barn
a storehouse (Deut. 28:8; Job 39:12; Hag. 2:19) for grain, which
was usually under ground, although also sometimes above ground
(Luke 12:18).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Barn \Barn\, n. [OE. bern, AS. berern, bern; bere barley + ern,
[ae]rn, a close place. ?92. See {Barley}.]
A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and
other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of
the barn is often used for stables.

{Barn owl} (Zo["o]l.), an owl of Europe and America ({Aluco
flammeus}, or {Strix flammea}), which frequents barns and
other buildings.

{Barn swallow} (Zo["o]l.), the common American swallow
({Hirundo horreorum}), which attaches its nest of mud to
the beams and rafters of barns.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Barn \Barn\, v. t.
To lay up in a barn. [Obs.] --Shak.

Men . . . often barn up the chaff, and burn up the
grain. --Fuller.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Barn \Barn\, n.
A child. [Obs.] See {Bairn}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

barn
n 1: an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed
and housing farm animals
2: (atomic or nuclear physics) a unit of nuclear cross section;
the effective circular area that one particle presents to
another as a target for an encounter [syn: {b}]


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