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BADGER n. 5 definitions

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]

BADGER STATE n.

Wisconsin; -- a nickname.

BADGER-LEGGED a.

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

BADGERER n. 2 definitions

One who badgers.

BADGERING n. 2 definitions

The act of one who badgers.

A badgerlike animal of India (Arcionyx collaris).

BAWSIN; BAWSON n.

A badger. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

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

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

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

One of a breed of small dogs with short crooked legs, and long body; -- called also badger dog. There are two kinds, the rough- haired and the smooth-haired.

The dung of the fox, wolf, boar, or badger.

A carnivorous mammal (Gulo luscus), of the family Mustelidæ, about the size of a large badger. It was formerly believed to be inordinately voracious, whence the name; the wolverene. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia. Glutton bird (Zoöl.), the giant fulmar (Ossifraga gigantea); -- called…

An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon. Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day. That coats thy life, my gallant gray. Sir W. Scott.

The American badger.

Having a marsupial pouch; as, the pouched badger, or the wombat.

nivore of the genus Mellivora, allied to the weasels and the skunks; -- called also honey badger.

Courage; pluck; grit. [Slang] Sand badger (Zoöl.), the Japanese badger (Meles ankuma). -- Sand bag (a) A bag filled with sand or earth, used for various purposes, as in fortification, for ballast, etc. (b) A long bag filled with sand, used as a club by assassins. -- Sand ball, soap mixed with sand, made into a ball f…

from Stink, v. Stinking badger (Zoöl.), the teledu. -- Stinking cedar (Bot.), the California nutmeg tree; also, a related tree of Florida (Torreya taxifolia).