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Hence: A poet; as, the bard of Avon.

A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [Often in the pl.]

Wearing rich caparisons. Fifteen hundred men . . . barded and richly trapped. Stow.

Of or pertaining to bards, or their poetry. "The bardic lays of ancient Greece." G. P. Marsh.

An Italian marble of which the principal varieties occur in the neighborhood of Carrara and in Corsica. It commonly shows a dark gray or bluish ground traversed by veins.

Pertaining to, or written by, a bard or bards. "Bardish impostures." Selden.

The system of bards; the learning and maxims of bards.

An inferior bard. J. Cunningham.

The state of being a bard.

ssiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon. They planted in divers places twelve great bombards, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses. Knolles.

One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner. [Archaic]

One who carried liquor or beer in a can or bombard. [Obs.] They . . . made room for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady. B. Jonson.

An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.

trument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide. Grove.

See Bombard. [Obs.]

A coarse frock or loose upper garment formerly worn by Jews; a mean dress. Shak.

A glowworm. {Obs.] Holland.

The glowworm. [Obs.]

A leopard. [Obs. or Poetic] Spenser. Keats.

. Leopard's bane. [Obs.]