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A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.

A man of any age who has not been married. As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound. W. Irving.

, (Bot.) A plant with flowers shaped like buttons; especially, several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower (Centaures cyanus) and globe amaranth (Gomphrena).

The state of bachelorhood; the whole body of bachelors.

The state or condition of being a bachelor; bachelorship.

Bachelorhood; also, a manner or peculiarity belonging to bachelors. W. Irving.

The state of being a bachelor.

The body of young aspirants for knighthood. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Shaped like a rod or staff.

See Diatom.

Of or pertaining to little rods; rod-shaped.

Rod-shaped.

A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.

rs, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc. Hop back, Jack back, the cistern which receives the infusion of malt and hops from the copper. -- Wash back, a vat in which distillers ferment the wort to form wash. -- Water back, a cistern to hold a supply of water; esp. a small c…

A door in the back part of a building; hence, an indirect way. Atterbury.

A fire started ahead of a forest or prairie fire to burn only against the wind, so that when the two fires meet both must go out for lack of fuel.

Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the front stairs; hence, a private or indirect way.

To have or experience a back fire or back fires; -- said of an internal-combustion engine.

See Bacharach.

Same as Baccare.