Bacchanalianism
(Bac`cha*na"li*an*ism) n. The practice of bacchanalians; bacchanals; drunken revelry.
Bacchant
(Bac"chant) n.; pl. E. Bacchants, L. Bacchantes. [L. bacchans, -antis, p. pr. of bacchari
to celebrate the festival of Bacchus.]
1. A priest of Bacchus.
2. A bacchanal; a reveler. Croly.
Bacchant
(Bac"chant), a. Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing. Byron.
Bacchante
(Bac"chante) n.; L. pl. Bacchantes.
1. A priestess of Bacchus.
2. A female bacchanal.
Bacchantic
(Bac*chan"tic) a. Bacchanalian.
Bacchic
(Bac"chic Bac"chic*al) , a. [L. Bacchicus, Gr. Bakchiko`s.] Of or relating to Bacchus; hence,
jovial, or riotous, with intoxication.
Bacchius
(||Bac*chi"us) n.; pl. Bacchii [L. Bacchius pes, Gr. "o Bakchei^os ] (Pros.) A metrical foot
composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short.
Bacchus
(Bac"chus) n. [L., fr. Gr. Ba`kchos.] (Myth.) The god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele.
Bacciferous
(Bac*cif"er*ous) a. [L. baccifer; bacca berry + ferre to bear.] Producing berries. " Bacciferous
trees." Ray.
Bacciform
(Bac"ci*form) a. [L. bacca berry + -form.] Having the form of a berry.
Baccivorous
(Bac*civ"o*rous) a. [L. bacca berry + vorare to devour.] (Zoöl.) Eating, or subsisting on,
berries; as, baccivorous birds.
Bace
(Bace) n., a., & v. See Base. [Obs.] Spenser.
Bacharach
(Bach"a*rach, Back"a*rack) n. A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.
Bachelor
(Bach"e*lor) n. [OF. bacheler young man, F. bachelier (cf. Pr. bacalar, Sp. bachiller, Pg.
bacharel, It. baccalare), LL. baccalarius the tenant of a kind of farm called baccalaria, a soldier not
old or rich enough to lead his retainers into battle with a banner, a person of an inferior academical
degree aspiring to a doctorate. In the latter sense, it was afterward changed to baccalaureus. See Baccalaureate,
n.]
1. A man of any age who has not been married.
As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound.
W. Irving.
2. An unmarried woman. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
3. A person who has taken the first or lowest degree in the liberal arts, or in some branch of science, at
a college or university; as, a bachelor of arts.
4. A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field; often,
a young knight.
