noun. Any of several Mediterranean halophytes, especially Salsola kali, S. soda, or Halogeton sativus, that were formerly burned to obtain a crude soda ash.

noun. The crude sodium carbonate ash that was obtained from these plants.

noun. The commercial name of the impure carbonate and sulphate of soda imported from Spain and the Levant, and obtained from several fleshy plants growing by the sea or in saline localities, mostly belonging to the chenopodiaceous genera Salsola, Salicornia, and Chenopodium.

noun. Grains of native copper disseminated in sandstone. Also called copper barilla (Sp. barilla de cobre).

noun. plural In a gold-mill, wooden divisions of blanket-strakes, copper plates, etc.

noun. A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda is made, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes.

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noun. The alkali produced from the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching purposes.

noun. Impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant, or kelp.

noun. native copper in granular form mixed with sand, an ore brought from Bolivia; -- called also Barilla de cobre.

noun. Any of several unrelated saltmarsh plants that were once burnt to obtain soda ash

noun. The alkali produced from the plant, an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching.

noun. Impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant, or kelp.

noun. bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash

noun. Algerian plant formerly burned to obtain calcium carbonate

"A large string of mules, however, which met us from Toulon, loaded with barilla for the great glass works at Beausset, showed us that the one or the other was practicable, and on advancing a little farther, we distinguished the chasm through which the road to Toulon is conducted, surmounted by the black ruins of an old castle to the left."

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