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BAG 
BAL 
B. 
BABBLE, blatero, ileblatero, fabulor, 
U garrio, efTutio, uiucinor; vainly, vo¬ 
ces inanes fundere. 
Babbler, blatero, garrulus, nugator; vul- 
gator, famigeratbr. 
Babbling, subst^ garrulitas, garritus. - 
IT Adj. garrulus, qui silere tacenda ne- 
quit. 
BABE, BABY, infans. -- IT (doll), pu- 
. pus, pupulus, pupa, pupula. 
BABOON, Simla Pavianus, L. 
BACCHUS, Bacchus, Liber. — Festival 
of B., Bacchanalia, Liberalia, Diony- 
sia ; to keep it, bacchari. 
Bacchic, Bacchicus, Baccheus. 
Bacchant, Bacchante, homo vinolentus 
ac dissolutus ; baccha. 
Bacchanalian, dissolutus, luxuriosus, 
delicatus. — To have a Bacchanalian 
lime, comissari; having such, comissa- 
bundus. —• To lead a Bacchanalian life, 
Bacchanalia vivere. 
BACHELOR, qui abhorret (or abhorruit) 
ab uxore duceudA (caslebs denotes any 
man not now in the marriage state; he 
may have been married before or not). -- 
ir A bachelor, primo academici honoris 
gradu ornatus, baccalaqreus. 
BACK, _ subst. (part of the body), tergum 
(the back, as the backside ; of men, and al¬ 
so of animals ); dorsum (the back, as an 
elevated part of the body of animals ; rare¬ 
ly used of men). — Having his back turn¬ 
ed to us, aversus, — mth his back to 
the light, aversus a lumine. — Back to 
back, inter se aversi. — To tie the hands 
behind the back , religare or re vincire ma- 
nus post tergum or terga_ To walk up 
and clown with the hands behind one’s back, 
manibus in tergum rejectis inambulare. 
—Lay upon his back, resupinare.— To take 
apersonor thing upon one’s back, aliquem 
or aliquid in tergum accipere; aliquem 
or aliquid humeris attollere. — To lie 
(sleep, rest) upon one’s back, supinum 
cubare. — I have the wind in my back, 
tergum afilat ventus. — To tur n his back, 
se or vultum avertere- To turn their 
backs (take to flight), terga vertere or da¬ 
re. — As soon as I turn my back, simulac 
discesserim. — To turn the back to one, 
alicui tergum obvertere (prop.); abire, 
discedere ab aliquo (depart from one); 
alicui deesse (not to help him ); aliquem 
deserere (to leave him perfidiously in the 
larch). —■ Behind one’s back, clam aliquo, 
aliquo inscio, aliquo absente. — To 
speak evil of one behind his back, alicui 
absent) male dicere.— The ass takes a 
burden on his back, asellus onus subit 
dorso.-- Y Bach, i. e. back side, back 
part, pars aversa, tergum ; pars posteri¬ 
or; .— of the paper, charta aversa. — 
Written on the back of the paper, parch¬ 
ment, &c.; scriptus in tergo. — The back 
of the head, aversa pars capitis, occiput. 
'I he back part of the island, aversa (pi.) 
insulae .—of the mountain, aversa montis ; 
aversus mons. — The back (or convex 
Part) of the channels of a leaf, canalium 
folu dorsum. 
Back (backwards), retro, retrorsum_ To 
go b., re t ro i re , ambulare, gradi; drive b., 
retroagere ; to give back, retrocedere. — 
Back! cede 1 cedite 1 recede ! recedite ! 
wit back in its various senses is most 
men expressed by re in composition to 
° ok fork, respicere ; drive back, repelle- 
jc ; keep back, retinere, retardare ; de- 
moran, remorari, detinere. — Draw 
hack, v. a. retrahere, reducere, revoca- 
re ; v.n. recedere, se recipere, pedem 
or gradum referre. — To write back, re- 
cribere— Send back, remittere. —Come 
oack (return), redire, revenire, reverti 
;“7 1 *•)•— To give back (return), redde- 
' e . (generally ); restituere (the identical 
vtr' T blowing back, refluens, reflu- 
jt lke tide), reciprocus. — 
pull-back, impedimentum, remora. — 
o wns put back, repulsam tulit. — To 
annniu t0 , t the ori Y*'« and head of a thing, 
liquid alte et a capite repetere. 
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Back, v. a. (assist, support, farther), juva- 
re, adjuvare, suffragari alicui, alicui 
favere ; aliquem opera et consilio juva- 
re, consilio et re tueri aliquem ; alicui 
adjumento esse ; sustentare, sustinere. 
- Y To back water, navem retro inhi- 
bere. 
Backbone, spina. 
Backdoor, postica (sc. janua), ostium 
posticum, posticum. 
Background, recessus. — of a painting, 
qu»(in pictur&) recedunt, abscedunt.— 
To be in the b., recedere, abscedere, (opp. 
to prominere). 
Backstairs, seal® postics. 
BACKBITE, maledice dicere de aliquo 
absente, alicui absenti male dicere or 
loqui, de aliquo absente detrahendi cau- 
si maledice contumelioseque dicere, 
absentem rodere. 
Backbiter, qui absentibus male dicit or 
loquitur, absentium criininator. 
BACKSLIDE, deficere, desciscere ab 
aliquo, alienari ab aliquo; apostatare 
(Cypr.) ;— a virtute deficere. 
Backsliding, adj. alienatus, alienus : im- 
probus, scele'stus, sceleratus. 
U Subst. defectio, apostasia; peccatuin, 
delictum. 
Backslider, apostata. 
BACKWARD, BACKWARDS, adv. re¬ 
tro; retrorsum. (SeeBack.) - V (with 
the back forwards), aversus. —Bears creep 
down from trees backwards, ursi arbores 
aversi derepunt.-II To go backward 
(grow worse), deteriorem, deterius fieri, 
in deterius mutari, in pejorem partem 
verti et mutari. 
Backward, adj. aversus, piger ; segnis, 
tardus, lentus. — to punish, piger ad 
poenas. — to write letters, ad scribendas 
literas piger; cessatorem esse in Ute¬ 
ris. — to learn, in learning, tardus ad 
discendum or in discendo, lentus indis- 
cendo. - Y (late), serus, serotinus. 
— figs, sera fici. — grapes, serotin® 
uv®. 
Backwardness, pigritia, tarditas, segni- 
tia; sera nmturitas. 
BACON, lardum. — A flitch of it, succi 
dia. — A gammon of bacon, perna (hind- 
shoulder), petaso (fore-shoulder). 
BAD (ill, not good), malus, corruptus 
(spoiled), vilis (of little worth), pravus 
(deformed, perverted), tenuis (scanty, 
poor), miser.-9 bad poet, malus poeta 
— weather, tempestas mala, adversa, 
feeda. — way, iter difficile, incommo- 
dum; very, via deterrima. — fare, vic- 
tus tenuis.— To be in bad repute, male 
audire. — Bad coin, numi adulterini. 
—— Y (unfortunate, unfavorable), tristis ; 
miser. — Bad news, nuntius tristis, acer- 
bus. — To help a bad matter, rem procli- 
natam adjuvare. — omens, omina tristia, 
infausta. — times, tempora tristia, ini- 
qua, aspera, luctuosa, calamitosa. — 
fortune, misera fortuna. —Y (hurtful), 
nocens, noxius, nociturus; alienus ali¬ 
cui rei. — Meats bad for the stomach, cibi 
stomacho alieni. - Y (morally bad), 
malus (so inclined by nature), pra- 
vus (depraved, perverted) ; improbus; 
impius, scelestus, (godless, reprobate)-, 
nequam (good for nothing). — A bad 
disposition, ingenium malum pravum- 
que. — desires, . prav® cupiditates. — 
To become bad, corrumpi. 
Badly, male, prave, perperam; tenuiter, 
misere ; nequiter, iinprobe, turpiter. 
Badness, pravitas, tenuitas, malitia, im- 
probitas, nequitia. 
BADGE, insigne. 
BADGER, ursus meles, L. 
BAFFLE, fallere, eludere, frustrari; ad 
vanum, ad irritum redigere_ To baffle 
all a man’s plans, conturbare alicui 
omnes rationes- Death baffles all the 
plans of life, omnia vit® consilia mors 
pervertit. 
BAG, saccus ; culeus (great leathern sack 
for parricides) ; follis (leathern sack for 
money) ; marsupium, crumena, (pouch 
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for money). — little, sacculus, saccel 
lus; (for money), sacculus, folliculus. 
Bagpipe, utriculus. 
Bagpiper, utricularius, ascaules. 
BAGGAGE, impedimentum, sarcin®, (al¬ 
so of the b. of an army, with the distinction 
that imp. is of the whole army, sar. of in¬ 
dividual soldiers) - To gather together 
bag and baggage, sarcinas et vasa = colli- 
gere. Pick up your baggage and be 
gone, collige sarcinulas et°exi. _ 
Y (worthless woman), muliercula vilissi- 
ma, mulier nequissima: (in reproach), 
lutum 1-Y (pert girl, flirt), lasciva 
paella. -Y (lumber), scruta. 
BAGNIO, balneum (private), balne® (j>ub- 
lic)-, balnearia, therm®. 
BAIL, vas, vadimonium. — To become 
bail for any one’s appearance, vadem fie¬ 
ri alicujus sistendi. — To save his bail 
(by appearing), vadimonium obire._ 
To forsake it, vadimonium deserere._ 
To demand bail, vadem poscere ; of one, 
aliquem vadari. — To give bail, vades 
dare. — Admit to bail, vadimonio inter- 
posito liberare. 
BAIT, esca,illecebra, (prop, and fig.) _ 
Y (qf an inn), cibus qui apud deverso- 
rium sumitur or jumentis prabetur. 
To Bait, escam imponere or obducere (a 
hook, hamo). - Y (at an inn), cibo 
apud deversorium se reficere; devertere. 
deverti, deversari; jumenta in itinere 
(or apud deversorium) cibo reficere. 
Bait. — a bear or bull, ursum or taurum 
cum canibus committere.-Y(sst upon 
one), invadere, vexare, exagitare; ali¬ 
quem conviciis lacessere. 
BAKE, coquere, torrere -.— v.n. coqui, 
percoqui, excoqui- To bake bread, pa- 
nein coquere. — tiles, iaterculos coque- 
re ' — The sun bakes the place, locum co¬ 
quit sol. 
Baker, coquus, pistor, furnariam exer- 
cens, furnarius ; pistrix. 
Bakehouse, pistrina, pistrinum. 
Baking, coctura; furnaria, pistura. 
Bake-oven, furnus. — To heat it, furnum 
calefacere. 
BALANCE (generally), trutina, statera 
(the latter esp. of the steelyard ); (pair of 
scales), libra; (overplus), quod reliquum 
restat. -— Y (equipoise), momentum 
par, iequitas. — The balance of something 
is disturbed, portionutn mquitas »turba- 
tur. —• To lose one’s balance, labi. — To 
disturb the balance of the mind, ffiquitatem 
animi turbare. 
To Balance ( weigh in a b.), pensare, pon- 
derare aliquid re, perpendere aliquid ad 
aliquid.— On balancing together his good 
and bad qualities, vitiis virtutibusque 
ejus perpensis. -Y (keep in equilibri¬ 
um), rem suis ponderibus librare, rem 
librare : — v.n. corpus librare ; exami- 
nari, suis ponderibus librari_ Balanced, 
pari momento or suis ponderibus libra- 
tus, paribus examinatus ponderibus. 
~r To balance the vast body of the em¬ 
pire, immensum imperii corpus libra- 
re --IT (counterpoise, counterbal¬ 
ance), pensare, compensare rem re.- 
Y To balance an account, inire subduce- 
reque rationem. — They have balanced 
account, convenit inter eos ratio accept! 
et expensi.-- Y To balance an account, 
i. e. pay the overplus, quod superest in 
rationibus nnmerare. - Y (hesitate, 
waver), in decreto suo, inter varia 
consilia, nunc hue nunc illuc fluctu- 
are. 
BALCONY, podium, M®nianum. 
BALD, calvus (of men, with reference to the 
head only; of beasts, to the whole body) ; 
glaber (of parts of the body which should 
have hair, bat never of the head; of places 
which should be covered with plants, trees, 
&c.) ; nudus foliis (leafless, of trees). — 
Bald in front, pracalvus.— behind, re- 
calvus.-9 bald head, calvitiuin. — To 
be bald, calvere, calvum esse ; glabrere, 
glabrum esse. — To become bald, calvum 
fieri, calvescere ; glabrum fieri, glabres- 
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