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To make or sing ballads. [Obs.]

A seller or maker of ballads; a poetaster. Shak.

Gravel, broken stone, etc., laid in the bed of a railroad to make it firm and solid.

mp, or to cause ( something) to hit or strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it.

To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.

One who banquets; one who feasts or makes feasts.

obstruction, or fastening; as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door. Thou shalt make bars of shittim wood. Ex. xxvi. 26.

To make barbarous. The hideous changes which have barbarized France. Burke.

To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.

-- Into the bargain, over and above what is stipulated; besides. -- To sell bargains, to make saucy ( usually indelicate) repartees. [Obs.] Swift. -- To strike a bargain, to reach or ratify an agreement. "A bargain was struck." Macaulay.

One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor.

One who makes a bargain, or contracts with another; esp., one who sells, or contracts to sell, property to another. Blackstone.

To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs; -- said of some animals, but especially of dogs.

r bounds ( four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striking the ball.

ay all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice. Make me not sighted like the basilisk. Shak.

us insect of the genus Thyridopteryx and allied genera, esp. T. ephemeræformis. The larva makes and carries about a bag or basket-like case of silk and twigs, which it afterwards hangs up to shelter the pupa and wingless adult females.

Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin. [Obs.]

To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate. The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock. Blackstone.

with one whole end. Bat bolt (Machinery), a bolt barbed or jagged at its butt or tang to make it hold the more firmly. Knight.

To make fertile. [Obs.] "To battel barren land." Ray.