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Like a ribald. Bp. Hall.

Of a ribald quality. [R.]

The talk of a ribald; low, vulgar language; indecency; obscenity; lewdness; -- now chiefly applied to indecent language, but formerly, as by Chaucer, also to indecent acts or conduct. The ribaldry of his conversation moved Macaulay.

ts and patches of white and some color other than black; -- usually distinguished from piebald, in which the colors are properly white and black. Said of horses.

In the old Norse mythology, the gods Odin, Thor, Loki, Balder, Frigg, and the others. Their home was called Asgard.

Loss of the hair; baldness.

A practitioner who tries to prevent or cure baldness.

us of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John Eliot the apostle to the Indians, Theobald Mathew the apostle of temperance.

The assent, if not the approbation, of the prince. Prescott. Too many people read this ribaldry with assent and admiration. Macaulay. Royal assent, in England, the assent of the sovereign to a bill which has passed both houses of Parliament, after which it becomes law.

Of or pertaining to Atella, in ancient Italy; as, Atellan plays; farcical; ribald. -- n.

Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager. "Uttering bare truth." Shak.

th embroidery : -- made originally at Bagdad. [Spelt also baudkin, baudkyn, bawdekin, and baldakin.] Nares.

A belt. See Baldric.

A belt. See Baldric.

Coarsely abusive, foul, or profane language; vituperation; ribaldry.

To cover or dress with, or as with, a coif. And coif me, where I'm bald, with flowers. J. G. Cooper.

Hair arranged to be worn on the head. The baldness, thinness, and . . . deformity of their hair is supplied by borders and combings. Jer. Taylor.

A wading bird with lobate toes, of the genus Fulica. The common European or bald coot is F. atra (see under bald); the American is F. Americana.

bestowed or borne as a badge of honor; a broad ribbon, usually worn after the manner of a baldric, constituting a mark of a very high grade in an honorary order. Cf. Grand cordon.

quila chrysaëtus); the imperial eagle of Europe (A. mogilnik or imperialis); the American bald eagle (Haliæetus leucocephalus); the European sea eagle (H. albicilla); and the great harpy eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia). The figure of the eagle, as the king of birds, is commonly used as an heraldic emblem, and also for stand…