BPage 38
- English Word Bard Definition A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
- English Word Bard Definition Hence: A poet; as, the bard of Avon.
- English Word Bard Definition Alt. of Barde
- English Word Bard Definition To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.
- English Word Bard Definition The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
- English Word Bard Definition Specifically, Peruvian bark.
- English Word Barde Definition A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [Often in the pl.]
- English Word Barde Definition Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.
- English Word Barde Definition A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.
- English Word Barded Definition Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse.
- English Word Barded Definition Wearing rich caparisons.
- English Word Bardic Definition Of or pertaining to bards, or their poetry.
- English Word Bardish Definition Pertaining to, or written by, a bard or bards.
- English Word Bardism Definition The system of bards; the learning and maxims of bards.
- English Word Bardling Definition An inferior bard.
- English Word Bardship Definition The state of being a bard.
- English Word Bare Definition Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
- English Word Bare Definition With head uncovered; bareheaded.
- English Word Bare Definition Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
- English Word Bare Definition Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.
- English Word Bare Definition Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture.
- English Word Bare Definition Threadbare; much worn.
- English Word Bare Definition Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority.
- English Word Bare Definition Surface; body; substance.
- English Word Bare Definition That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
- English Word Bare Definition To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.
- English Word Bare Definition Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.
- English Word Bare Definition of Bear
- English Word Bareback Definition On the bare back of a horse, without using a saddle; as, to ride bareback.
- English Word Barebacked Definition Having the back uncovered; as, a barebacked horse.