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physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the opposite of good; as a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad health; bad crop; bad news.

A condiment formed of small fishes or shrimps, pounded up with salt and spices, and then dried. It is much esteemed in China.

The state or condition of being bald; as, baldness of the head; baldness of style. This gives to their syntax a peculiar character of simplicity and baldness. W. D. Whitney.

he shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass; a conder; a huer.

In France, a second ballot taken after an indecisive first ballot to decide between two or several candidates.

The conductor of a musical band.

To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power. "We banish you our territories." Shak.

One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.

Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant.

An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness. Prescott.

scends until balanced by the weight of the atmosphere, and its rise or fall under varying conditions is a measure of the change in the atmospheric pressure. At the sea level its ordinary height is about 30 inches (760 millimeters). See Sympiesometer. Nichol. Aneroid barometer. See Aneroid barometer, under Aneroid. --…

The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness. A total barrenness of invention. Dryden.

The secondary, inferior, or rear courtyard of a large house; the outer court of a castle.

The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness. I once did hold it a baseness to write fair. Shak.

The second joint of the antennæ of crustaceans.

uared at the quarry. -- Bastard file, a file intermediate between the coarsest and the second cut. -- Bastard type (Print.), type having the face of a larger or a smaller size than the body; e.g., a nonpareil face on a brevier body. -- Bastard wing (Zoöl.), three to five quill feathers on a small joint corresponding…

or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances. He held the baton of command. Prescott.

an apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts; as, a battery of boilers, of retorts, condensers, etc.

The second tine of a stag's horn. See under Antler.

To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons. [Obs.] Bear them to my house. Shak.