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A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short.

The god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele.

Producing berries. " Bacciferous trees." Ray.

Having the form of a berry.

Eating, or subsisting on, berries; as, baccivorous birds.

See Base. [Obs.] Spenser.

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…