Search the Dictionary

Babble. [Obs.] Sir T. More

Finery of a kind to please a child. [Obs.] "Painted babery." Sir P. Sidney.

Tumultuous; disorderly. [Obs.] Sir J. Harrington.

By way of reflection; reflexively. Sir J. Davies.

Reluctantly; slowly; aversely. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

One who takes care of baggage; a camp follower. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

ire; an alarm fire. Sweet Teviot! on thy silver tide The glaring balefires blaze no more. Sir W. Scott.

es. [Obs.] Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights, Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see. Shak.

he competitors arriving to a sufficient number of balls, they fell to ballot some others. Sir H. Wotton.

Voting by ballot. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

A bathing room. Sir T. Browne.

To curse; to invoke evil upon. Sir W. Scott.

llet; a part of a head-dress. Around the edge of this cap was a stiff bandeau of leather. Sir W. Scott.

ol.] From the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole or streamer bearing a cross. Sir W. Scott.

ng his bandog, a large bloodhound, tied in a leam, or band, from which he takes his name. Sir W. Scott.

person or people; barbarous; barbarian; destitute of refinement. "Wild, barbaric music." Sir W. Scott.

outered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See Barded ( which is the proper form.) Sir W. Raleigh.

A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife. [R.] Cowell. Baron of beef, two sirloins not cut asunder at the backbone. -- Barons of the Cinque Ports, formerly members of the House of Commons, elected by the seven Cinque Ports, two for each port. -- Baron of the exchequer, the judges of the Court of Exchequer, one…

r to keep back a crowd. No sooner were the barriers opened, than he paced into the lists. Sir W. Scott.

To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower. [Obs.] If any . . . based his pike. Sir T. North.