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Having a beard; bearded; hairy.

An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.

A white, crystalline substance,

A French school of the middle of the 19th century centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau. Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified, esp. in landsca…

See Barbel.

A paste of clay used in decorating coarse pottery in relief.

Barbarian. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A very minute barb or beard. Booth.

A popular song or melody sung by Venetian gondoliers.

A vessel for freight; -- used in Mediterranean.

Hence: A poet; as, the bard of Avon.

of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [Often in the pl.]

Wearing rich caparisons. Fifteen hundred men . . . barded and richly trapped. Stow.

Of or pertaining to bards, or their poetry. "The bardic lays of ancient Greece." G. P. Marsh.

An Italian marble of which the principal varieties occur in the neighborhood of Carrara and in Corsica. It commonly shows a dark gray or bluish ground traversed by veins.

Pertaining to, or written by, a bard or bards. "Bardish impostures." Selden.

The system of bards; the learning and maxims of bards.

An inferior bard. J. Cunningham.

The state of being a bard.

Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.