2. To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to
obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance
of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars
my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the
plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up.
He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened
to bar it in its dungeon. --Hawthorne.
3. To except; to exclude by exception.
Nay, but I bar to-night: you shall not gauge me By
what we do to-night. --Shak.
4. To cross with one or more stripes or lines.
For the sake of distinguishing the feet more
clearly, I have barred them singly. --Burney.