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Of or pertaining to Bactria in Asia. -- n.

See Bascule.

Of or pertaining to the rod or punishment with the rod.

A cephalopod of the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite.

Measurement of distance or altitude by a staff or staffs.

of Bid. Bade. [Obs.] Dryden.

Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by canons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian Fre…

A person given to idle observation of everything, with wonder or astonishment; a credulous or gossipy idler.

compar. of Bad, a. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A large black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes eaten in Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware.

Somewhat bad; inferior. Jeffrey.

A form of the pat tense of Bid.

A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman. "Tax gatherers, recognized by their official badges. " Prescott.

Having no badge. Bp. Hall.

A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists. Badger dog. (Zoöl.) See Dachshund.

The method of blackmailing by decoying a person into a compromising situation and extorting money by threats of exposure. [Cant]

Wisconsin; -- a nickname.

Having legs of unequal length, as the badger was thought to have. Shak.

One who badgers.

The act of one who badgers.