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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.

ent, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.

The degree of bachelor of arts. (B.A. or A.B.), the first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges.

Austere or stiff, like scholastics. Those budge doctors of the stoic fur. Milton. Budge bachelor, one of a company of men clothed in long gowns lined with budge, who formerly accompanied the lord mayor of London in his inaugural procession. -- Budge barrel (Mil.), a small copper-hooped barrel with only one head, the o…

The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry. "The celibacy of the clergy." Hallom.

One who is unmarried, esp. a bachelor, or one bound by vows not to marry.

Apartments in a lodging house. "A bachelor's life in chambers." Thackeray.

A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent. Todd.

Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace. Inquire me out contracted bachelors. Shak.

mitted by a college or university, in recognition of their attainments; as, the degree of bachelor of arts, master, doctor, etc.

A young male fur seal, esp. one from three to six years old; -- called also bachelor, because prevented from breeding by the older full-grown males.

A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field of battle.

On the continent of Europe, a university degree intermediate between that of bachelor and that of doctor.

; genial; jovial. May health return to mellow age. Wordsworth. As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound. W. Irving.

either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.