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t color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black. Black is the badge of hell, The hue of dungeons, and the suit of night. Shak.

Having a wicked, malignant disposition; morally bad.

Bad port wine; any commo wine of the Mediterranean; -- so called by sailors.

The distinctive badge of certain temperance or total abstinence organizations, as of the Blue ribbon Army. -- Blue ruin, utter ruin; also, gin. [Eng. Slang] Carlyle. -- Blue spar (Min.), azure spar; lazulite. See Lazulite. -- Blue thrush (Zoöl.), a European and Asiatic thrush (Petrocossyphus cyaneas). -- Blue verdi…

ak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol. Lest bad men should boast Their specious deeds. Milton.

In a bad sense, too forward; taking undue liberties; over assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or restraint; rude; impudent. Thou art too wild, too rude and bold of voice. Shak.

., a member of the "Boy Scouts," an organization of boys founded in 1908, by Sir R. S. S. Baden-Powell, to promote good citizenship by creating in them a spirit of civic duty and of usefulness to others, by stimulating their interest in wholesome mental, moral, industrial, and physical activities, etc. Hence, a member…

A badger. Or with pretense of chasing thence the brock. B. Jonson.

emembered him as he been before his mind was broken. G. Eliot. The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, Sat by his fire, and talked the night away. Goldsmith.

Having bad or speckled eyes. "A buck-eyed horse." James White.

To intimidate by bullying; to rally contemptuously; to badger. [Low]

piracy. -- Cabal, Combination, Faction. An association for some purpose considered to be bad is the idea common to these terms. A combination is an organized union of individuals for mutual support, in urging their demands or resisting the claims of others, and may be good or bad according to circumstances; as, a comb…

A bad custom or habit; an insatiable desire; as, cacoëthes scribendi, "The itch for writing". Addison.

Troubled with bad digestion. [R.] Carlyle.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, cacography; badly written or spelled.

Incorrect or bad writing or spelling. Walpole.

Bad speaking; bad choice or use of words. Buchanan.

A tough old goose; hence, coarse, bad food of any kind. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

to forecast caonsequences; to estimate; to compute. The strong passions, whether good or bad, never calculate. F. W. Robertson.

ence; -- also applied, but erroneously, to the Canada lynx, and sometimes to the American badger. See Wolverene.