Badger
(Badg"er), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Badgered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Badgering.] [For sense 1, see 2d
Badger; for 2, see 1st Badger.]
1. To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.
2. To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.
Badgerer
(Badg"er*er) n.
1. One who badgers.
2. A kind of dog used in badger baiting.
Badgering
(Badg"er*ing), n.
1. The act of one who badgers.
2. The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a
profit. [Prov. Eng.]
Badger-legged
(Badg"er-legged`) a. Having legs of unequal length, as the badger was thought to have.
Shak.
Badiaga
(||Bad`i*a"ga) (bad`ia"ga or bad*yä"ga), n. [Russ. badiaga.] (Zoöl.) A fresh-water sponge (Spongilla),
common in the north of Europe, the powder of which is used to take away the livid marks of bruises.
Badian
(||Ba"di*an) n. [F. badiane, fr. Per. badian anise.] (Bot.) An evergreen Chinese shrub of the
Magnolia family and its aromatic seeds; Chinese anise; star anise.
Badigeon
(Ba*di"geon) n. [F.] A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue
or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a
surface.
Badinage
(||Ba`di`nage") n. [F., fr. badiner to joke, OF. to trifle, be silly, fr. badin silly.] Playful raillery; banter.
"He . . . indulged himself only in an elegant badinage." Warburton.
Bad lands
(Bad" lands") Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata
(Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by cañons, and
where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name,
first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres
Badly
(Bad"ly), adv. In a bad manner; poorly; not well; unskillfully; imperfectly; unfortunately; grievously; so
as to cause harm; disagreeably; seriously.
Badly is often used colloquially for very much or very greatly, with words signifying to want or need.
Badminton
(Bad"min*ton) n. [From the name of the seat of the Duke of Beaufort in England.]
1. A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks.
2. A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened.
Badness
(Bad"ness), n. The state of being bad.
Bænomere
(||Bæ"no*mere) n. [Gr. bai`nein to walk + -mere.] (Zoöl.) One of the somites (arthromeres)
that make up the thorax of Arthropods. Packard.
