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BAR'REN, a. [from the same root as bare.]

1. Not producing young, or offspring; applied to animals.

2. Not producing plants; unfruitful; steril; not fertile; or producing little; unproductive; applied to the earth.

3. Not producing the usual fruit; applied to tree,&c.

4. Not copious; scanty; as a scheme barren of hints.

5. Not containing useful or entertaining ideas; as a barren treatise.

6. Unmeaning; uninventive; dull; as barren spectators.

7. Unproductive; not inventive; as a barren mind.

BAR'REN, n. In the States west of the Allegheny, a word used to denote a tract of land, rising a few feet above the level of a plain, and producing trees and grass. The soil of these barrens is not barren, as the name imports, but often very fertile. It is usually alluvial, to a depth sometimes of several feet.

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2. Any unproductive tract of land; as the pine barrens of South Carolina.



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BAR'REN, a. [from the same root as bare.]

1. Not producing young, or offspring; applied to animals.

2. Not producing plants; unfruitful; steril; not fertile; or producing little; unproductive; applied to the earth.

3. Not producing the usual fruit; applied to tree,&c.

4. Not copious; scanty; as a scheme barren of hints.

5. Not containing useful or entertaining ideas; as a barren treatise.

6. Unmeaning; uninventive; dull; as barren spectators.

7. Unproductive; not inventive; as a barren mind.

BAR'REN, n. In the States west of the Allegheny, a word used to denote a tract of land, rising a few feet above the level of a plain, and producing trees and grass. The soil of these barrens is not barren, as the name imports, but often very fertile. It is usually alluvial, to a depth sometimes of several feet.

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2. Any unproductive tract of land; as the pine barrens of South Carolina.

BAR'REN, a. [from the same root as bare.]

  1. Not producing young, or offspring; applied to animals.
  2. Not producing plants; unfruitful; steril; not fertile; or producing little; unproductive; applied to the earth.
  3. Not producing the usual fruit; applied to trees, &c.
  4. Not copious; scanty; as, a scheme barren of hints. – Swift.
  5. Not containing useful or entertaining ideas; as, a barren treatise.
  6. Unmeaning; uninventive; dull; as, barren spectators. – Shak. Johnson. Qu.
  7. Unproductive; not inventive; as, a barren mind.

BAR'REN, n.

  1. In the States west of the Allegany, a word used to denote a tract of land, rising a few feet above the level of a plain, and producing trees and grass. The soil of these barrens is not barren, as the name imports, but often very fertile. It is usually alluvial, to a depth sometimes of several feet. – Atwater, Journ. of Science.
  2. Any unproductive tract of land; as, the pine barrens of South Carolina. – Drayton.

Bar"ren
  1. Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.

    She was barren of children. Bp. Hall.

  2. A tract of barren land.
  3. Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; sterile.

    "Barren mountain tracts." Macaulay.
  4. Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile.

    [Amer.] J. Pickering.
  5. Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.

    Brilliant but barren reveries.
    Prescott.

    Some schemes will appear barren of hints and matter.
    Swift.

  6. Mentally dull; stupid.

    Shak.

    Barren flower, a flower which has only stamens without a pistil, or which has neither stamens nor pistils. -- Barren Grounds (Geog.), a vast tract in British America northward of the forest regions. -- Barren Ground bear (Zoöl.), a peculiar bear, inhabiting the Barren Grounds, now believed to be a variety of the brown bear of Europe. -- Barren Ground caribou (Zoöl.), a small reindeer (Rangifer Grœnlandicus) peculiar to the Barren Grounds and Greenland.

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Barren

BAR'REN, adjective [from the same root as bare.]

1. Not producing young, or offspring; applied to animals.

2. Not producing plants; unfruitful; steril; not fertile; or producing little; unproductive; applied to the earth.

3. Not producing the usual fruit; applied to tree, etc.

4. Not copious; scanty; as a scheme barren of hints.

5. Not containing useful or entertaining ideas; as a barren treatise.

6. Unmeaning; uninventive; dull; as barren spectators.

7. Unproductive; not inventive; as a barren mind.

BAR'REN, noun In the States west of the Allegheny, a word used to denote a tract of land, rising a few feet above the level of a plain, and producing trees and grass. The soil of these barrens is not barren as the name imports, but often very fertile. It is usually alluvial, to a depth sometimes of several feet.

2. Any unproductive tract of land; as the pine barrens of South Carolina.

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