bavardage 
Replying only by monosyllables to the Kay twin-'/'"" 1 
of tbe knit-lit. Bulirrr. Kien/i. II. 13:i. 
bavarettet (bav-a-ref), n. Same as baeette. 
Bavarian (lui-va'ri-an), n. and . [< Havana, 
NL. form of ML. Howrin, the country of tho ISnii 
(G. linii-rii), whose name is also found in />'- 
lit-inin, the country of the Hui<:>iti or Uolmm 
(G. Biihiiirn).'] I. <i. of or pertaining t<> Ha- 
varia, a kingdom of southern Germany. Bava- 
rian bronze, u bron/e. miming in color from a bright 
yellow to a copper-red. The yellow bron/c contains about 
82J per rent, of copper to 175 per cent, of tin: the red 
about !)7 per cent, of copper to :', per cent, of tin. 
II. . A native or an inhabitant of Bavaria. 
bavaroyt (bav'a-roi), n. [< F. Jitirtiniix, Bava- 
rian.] A kind of cloak. 
l,et the loop'd bam run the fop embrace. 
tin ii. Trivia, i. 53. 
Baveno twins. Wee ,/. 
bavert, An obsolete form of beaver 2 . 
bavette (ba-vet'), n. [F., with dim. term, -ette, 
< bave = Pr. It. bava = Sp. Pg. baba (ML. 
burn), drivel, slaver, saliva.] 1. A bib. 2. 
The upper part of a child's apron turned over 
to serve as a bib. 
baviant (ba'vi-an), H. A variant form of baboon. 
baviert, An obsolete form of bearer 2 . 
bavin 1 (bav'in), n. and a. [E. dial, bavin, bav- 
r H, nlso bobbin; of obscure origin ; cf. OF. baffe, 
a bundle.] I. n. 1. A fagot of brushwood; 
light and combustible wood used for kindling 
fires. [Now rare.] 
The Hun in, though it burne bright, Is but a blaze. 
Lyly, Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 73. 
If he outlasts not a hundred such crackling bavins as 
thou art, God and men neglect industry. 
Marston, Jimson, and Chapman, Eastward Ho, I. 1. 
About two in the morning they felt themselves almost 
choked with smoke, and rising, did find the Are coining 
up stairs : so they rose to save themselves ; but that, at 
that time, the bavins were not on fire in the yard. 
Pepys, Diary, III. 73. 
2f. .\filit., a fascine. 
II. a. Resembling bavin. [Poetic.] 
Shallow jesters, and rash bavin wits, 
Soon kindled and soon burn'd. 
Shak., I Hen. IV., iii. 2. 
bavin 1 ! (bav'in), v. t. [< bavin, n.] To make 
up into fagots. 
Kid or bavin them, and pitch them upon their ends to 
preserve them from rotting. Evelyn, Sylva, p. 538. 
bavin 2 (bav'in), n. [E. dial. ; origin obscure.] 
Impure limestone. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
bavin 3 (bav'in), n. [Origin obscure.] A name 
on the northeastern coast of Ireland of the bal- 
lan- wrasse. 
Bavouism (ba-vo'izm), . Same as Babouvism. 
Bavimimn, as Babceuf's system was called, was thus en- 
abled to play a role in French history from 1880 to 1839. 
R. T. Ely, Fr. and Ger. Socialism, p. 34. 
baw 1 (ba), n. [E. dial, and Sc. (Sc. also ba'), 
= 6ai.] A ball. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] 
baw 2 (ba), v. i. [E. dial., = bawfl. In def. 2, 
cf. L. baubari, bark.] 1. To bawl. [Prov. 
Eng.] 2f. To bark. Topsell. 
baw 3 (ba), interj. [< ME. baw, bawe; a natural 
exclamation of disgust, like btih.] An ejacu- 
lation of disgust or contempt. Goldsmith. 
bawbee, baubee (ba-be'), n. [Sc., formerly 
also bawbie, bauble, rarely babie : first mentioned 
in pi. baubeis. Of uncertain origin; prob. an 
abbr. of the name of the laird of Sillebawby, a 
mint-master mentioned at the date of the issu- 
ance of the bawbee, in connection with Atcltison, 
another mint^master whose name was applied 
to the coin called atchison ; cf. also bodle, bod- 
die, said to be named from a mint-master Bod- 
well or Bo1hwell,~\ 1. A Scotch billon coin, 
weighing about 29 grains troy, first issued in 
Obveree. Reverse. 
Bawbee of James V. British Museum. (Size of the original.) 
1542 by James V. of Scotland, and worth at 
that time lid. Scotch. A half-bawbee, worth M. 
Scotch, was coined at the same time and had similar 
types. In Scotland the name is now given to the bronze 
halfpenny current throughout the British islands. 
2. ill. Money; cash. [Scotch.] 
bawbie 1 , n. See bauble^. 
bawbie-, . See bauble*. 
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bawchan-seedOia'oiiaii-scd), //. [E. Iml.-. also 
written liinK'1'i, -Kinl.] The seed of I'xunili/i 
ftiri/liftiliti, a leguminous plant, of the East In- 
dies, used by the natives as a tonic and in skin- 
diseases, and exported as an oil-seed. 
bawcock (bii'kok), . [< F. beau cot], fine cock: 
see hfiiti and cork 1 .] Afinefellow. [Archaic.] 
How now. my ltu;-i,<-k _' Slink., 'I'. N'., iii. 4. 
bawd 1 (bad), n. [Early mod. E. also litnl, < 
.Ml). /Miinli, \uiiu\i, in the earliest instance 
varying with hawtlntrot, of which bated is prob. 
an abbr., being thus (prob. ) indirectly, and not, 
as commonly supposed, directly, derived from 
the OF. bund, bold, lively, gay. The OF. adj. 
is not used as a noun, and does not have the 
sense of the E. word. See bawdntrot, and <!'. 
bawdy 1 , bawdy-.] A procurer or procuress ; a 
person who keeps a house of prostitution, and 
conducts illicit intrigues : now usually applied 
only to women. 
He [Pandarus] is named Troilus' baml. 
Skeltim, Poems, p. 235. 
bawdH (bad), v. i. [< bawd 1 , .] To pander ; 
act as procurer or procuress. 
l.eticippe is agent for the king's lust, and bawds . . . 
for the whole court. Spectator, No. 200. 
bawd' 2 t (bad), i'. t. [Also spelled baud; < bainli/-, 
q. v.] To foul or dirty. 
Her shoone smeredwith tallow, 
Gresed upon dyrt 
That baudfth her skyrt. 
Skelton, Poems, p. 126. 
bawd 3 (bad), . [Early mod. E. also baud, per- 
haps abbr. from baudrons, or perhaps a var. of 
ME. badde, a cat, the name being transferred 
to the hare.] A hare. [In the extract there is 
a play on bawd in this sense and bawd 1 .'] 
Mer. A bated, a bawd ! so ho ! 
Rum. What hast thou found ? 
Mer. No hare, sir. Shak., B. and J., ii. 4. 
bawd-born (bad'born), a. Born of a bawd ; a 
bawd from birth. Shak.. M. for M., iii. 2. 
bawdekynt, . See bauaekin. 
bawdily (ba'di-li), adv. In a bawdy manner; 
obscenely; lewdly. 
bawdiness (ba'di-nes), . [< bawdy 1 + -ness.'] 
Obscenity; lewdness. 
bawdmoney, See baldmoney, 
bawdrickt (bad'rik), n. See baldric. 
bawdry (bad'ri), n. [< ME. bauderye, < baude, 
bawd, + -ry. Cf. OF. bauderie, boldness, 
gayety. See bawd 1 .] 1. The business of a 
bawd or procuress. 2. Illicit intercourse ; 
fornication. 
We must be married, or we must live in bawdry. 
Shak., As you Like it, iii. 3. 
3. Obscenity ; lewd language ; smuttiness. 
It is most certain that barefaced bawdry is the poorest 
pretence to wit imaginable. Dryden. 
4f. Bawds collectively. Udall. 
bawdship (bad'ship), . [< bawd 1 + -ship.} 
The office or employment of a bawd. Ford. 
bawdstrott, . [ME., also baudstrot, baustrot, 
baldestrot, baldystrot, < OF. "baudestrot, "bal- 
destrot, found only in later form baudetrot, 
prob. a cant name, and as such of obscure ori- 
gin ; possibly < OF. baud, bald, bold (< OLG. 
bald = E. bold). + "strot, < OLG. strotten, "strut- 
ten = Dan. strutte = MHG. G. strotzen = E. strut ; 
cf. LG. G. strutt, stiff.] A bawd; a pander. 
Piers Plowman. 
bawdy 1 (ba'di), a. [< bawdl + -y 1 .] Obscene; 
lewd; indecent; unchaste. 
bawdy 2 t (ba'di), a. [Early mod. E. also bawdy, 
< ME. bawdy, bandy, dirty, appar. from a sim- 
ple form "baud, which is not found till much 
later, and onlyas a verb (see bawd 2 ); origin 
unknown; cf. W. bawaidd, dirty, < baw, dirt, 
mire; F. bone, mud. Not connected with 
bawdy 1 , though the two words are commonly 
associated.] Dirty; filthy. 
His oversloppe . . . is al bandy and to-tore also. 
Chancer, Prol. to Canon's Yeoman's Tale, 1. 82. 
Slovenly cooks, that . . . never wash their baietiy hands. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., II. 323. 
bawdy-house (ba'di-hous), n. A house of 
lewdness and prostitution ; a house of ill-fame, 
bawhorse (ba'hors), n. Same as bathorse. 
bawl 1 (bal), v. [Early mod. E. also ball, baul, 
< ME. bawlen, bark, prob. < ML. baulare, bark 
(cf. L. baubari, bark) ; cf. mod. Icel. baula = 
Sw. bola, low as a cow (Icel. baula, a cow); 
cf. also Sw. b&la, roar, G. bailen, bark, and see 
bell?, bellow, balk 2 , etc., all prob. orig. imitative.] 
I. intrans. If. To bark or howl, as a dog. 2. 
To cry out with a loud full sound ; make vehe- 
bay 
mnnt or clamorous outcries, as in pain, exulta- 
tion, etc. ; slioiit. 
That /*(f/7for frcolntn ill their senseless ],| I 
Ami still revolt wbcii truth WIMIM -ei them free. 
M'/ioit, s, inneta, vii. 
ing under Lndgilte the other day. 1 heard a rota 
i,,,,i-i,ii:i for charity. ,sv. ,/,. Spectator, No. v_'. 
II. Iranx. 1. To utter or proclaim by outcry; 
shout out. 
Still must I hear? shall boar*- Kitznerald bawl 
Ilisereakini; ciiiipIcK iii a tavern hall'/ 
Iti/fiii, Kn-lisli llar-ls ami Seut.'h Reviewers. 
2. To cry for sale, as a hawker. 
I saw my labours, which had cost me so much thought 
and watching, batrli''! about by the common hawkers of 
Drub Street. Sfffl, Hickerstalf I'apera. 
bawl 1 (bal), ii. [< btiii-n, r.] A shout at the 
top of one's voice; an outcry: as, the children 
set up a loud bind. 
bawl-t, Obsolete spelling of bain. 
bawla (ba'lft), n. [Native term.] A matting 
made in the islands of the Pacific from the 
leaves of the cocoanut-palm, used for thatching. 
bawler (bii'ler), n. One who bawls. 
bawmet, An obsolete form of balm. Chaucer. 
baw-money, . See bat-M<im //. 
bawn (ban), . [< Ir. babhiin = Gael, bablnnin 
(pron. nearly as bawn), an inclosure for cattle, 
a fortification.] 1. Formerly, an outer in- 
closure of an Irish castle : nearly equivalent 
to bailey and outi >' btii/ri/. In the seventeenth cen- 
tury grants of government hind in Ireland were made on 
the condition that the grantee should build a castle and 
bawn, the latter for the protection of the cattle of the 
tenants. 
2. In modern times, in some parts of Ireland 
(a) The cattle-yard near a farm-house. (6) A 
large house, including all its appurtenances, 
as offices, courtyard, etc. Swift. 
bawn (ban), v. t. [< baton, .] In Ireland, to 
surround or inclose with a bawn. 
bawrelt, [A corresponding masc. bawret is 
found; appar. of F. origin. Cf. bockerel, bock- 
eret.~\ A kind of hawk. Phillips. 
bawsin, . and a. See bauson. 
bawsint (ba'sint), a. See bausond. 
bawson, . and a. See btiuson. 
bawtie, bawty (ba'ti), . [Sc. Cf. baiorf3.] In 
Scotland, a name for a dog, especially one of 
large size, and also for a hare. 
baxa, bazea (bak'sa, -se-ii), n. [L.] In Rom. 
antiq., a sandal or low shoe of various forms, 
often plaited from papyrus or palm-leaves; 
generally, an inexpensive foot-covering worn 
by the poorer classes, but also referred to as 
occurring in rich materials and workmanship, 
and specifically as the shoe of comic actors, as 
distinguished from the cothurnus used by tra- 
gedians. 
bazter (bak'ster), n. [Also backster, < ME. 
baxtcr, bacster, bakestre, < AS. btecestre, a baker: 
see bakester. Hence the proper name Baxter, 
equiv. to Baker.] A baker; properly, a female 
baker. [Old Eng. and Scotch.] 
Baxterian (baks-te'ri-an), a. Pertaining to or 
propounded by Richard Baxter, a celebrated 
English nonconformist divine (1615-1691): as, 
Baxterian doctrines. 
Baxterianism (baks-te'ri-an-izm), n. The 
doctrines of Richard Baxter, who amalgamated 
the Arminian doctrine of free grace with the 
Calvinistic doctrine of election. 
bay 1 (ba), n. [Early mod. E. also baye, bate, < 
ME. bay, baie, a berry, esp. that of the laurel- 
or bay-tree, perhaps < AS. beg, berry, occurring 
only in pi. Oeger, begir, glossed baccinia, i. e. 
vaccinia, 'blueberries' (see Vaceinium), and in 
comp. begbedm, lit. 'berry-tree,' applied both to 
the mulberry-tree (Gr. ftopea) and to the bram- 
ble or blackberry-bush (Gr. /Jdrof ). But the 
ME. form, like MD. beye, baeye, a berry, a lau- 
rel-berry, agrees also with, and may have come 
directly from, OF. baie, baye, mod. F. baie = Pr. 
bata = Sp. baya, OSp. baca = Pg. bat)a, baca = 
It. bacca, a berry, < L. baca, less correctly bacca, 
a berry; cf. Lith. bapka, a laurel-berry.] If. 
A berry, especially of the laurel-tree. 
The bays or berries that it beareth. 
Holland, tr. of Pliny, xv. 30. 
2. The laurel-tree, noble laurel, or sweet-bay, 
Laurus nobilis. See laurel. The name bay is also 
given to a number of trees and shrubs more or less re- 
sembling the noble laurel. See phrases below. 
Hence (like laurel, and in reference to the an- 
cient use of the laurel) 3. An honorary garland 
or crown bestowed as a prize for victory or ex- 
cellence ; also, fame or renown due to achieve- 
ment or merit : in this sense used chiefly in the 
