*bad*

n. [ Heb. ābaddōn destruction, abyss, fr. ābad to be lost, to perish. ] 1. The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hell; the bottomless pit. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In all her gates, Abaddon rues
Thy bold attempt. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. aube the dawn, fr. L. albus white. ] An open air concert in the morning, as distinguished from an evening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive of morning. Grove. [ 1913 Webster ]

The crowing cock . . .
Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. of Bid. Bade. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Worse superl. Worst ] [ Probably fr. AS. bæddel hermaphrodite; cf. bædling effeminate fellow. ] Wanting good qualities, whether physical or moral; injurious, hurtful, inconvenient, offensive, painful, unfavorable, or defective, either physically or morally; evil; vicious; wicked; -- the opposite of good; as, a bad man; bad conduct; bad habits; bad soil; bad air; bad health; a bad crop; bad news.
Sometimes used substantively. [ 1913 Webster ]

The strong antipathy of good to bad. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Pernicious; deleterious; noxious; baneful; injurious; hurtful; evil; vile; wretched; corrupt; wicked; vicious; imperfect. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A person given to idle observation of everything, with wonder or astonishment; a credulous or gossipy idler. [ 1913 Webster ]

A host of stories . . . dealing chiefly with the subject of his great wealth, an ever delightful topic to the badauds of Paris. Pall Mall Mag. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

compar. of Bad, a. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perh. for Balderlocks, fr. Balder the Scandinavian deity. ] (Bot.) A large black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes eaten in Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat bad; inferior. Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

A form of the past tense of Bid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. bagea, bagia, sign, prob. of German origin; cf. AS. beág, beáh, bracelet, collar, crown, OS. bōg- in comp., AS. būgan to bow, bend, G. biegen. See Bow to bend. ] 1. A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman. “Tax gatherers, recognized by their official badges.” Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Something characteristic; a mark; a token. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To mark or distinguish with a badge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no badge. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Of uncertain origin; perh. fr. an old verb badge to lay up provisions to sell again. ] An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another. [ Now dialectic, Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bageard, prob. fr. badge + -ard, in reference to the white mark on its forehead. See Badge, n. ] 1. A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or of an allied genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet. One species (Meles meles or Meles vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea taxus or Taxidea Americana or Taxidea Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists. [ 1913 Webster ]

Badger dog. (Zool.) See Dachshund. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who badgers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of dog used in badger baiting. [ 1913 Webster ]

. The method of blackmailing by decoying a person into a compromising situation and extorting money by threats of exposure. [ Cant ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. The act of one who badgers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having legs of unequal length, as the badger was thought to have. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Wisconsin; -- a nickname. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ Russ. badiaga. ] (Zool.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. badiane, fr. Per. bādiān anise. ] (Bot.) An evergreen Chinese shrub of the Magnolia family (Illicium anisatum), and its aromatic seeds; Chinese anise; star anise. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] A cement or distemper paste (as of plaster and powdered freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, finish a surface, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 (bad lands). [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a bad manner; poorly; not well; unskillfully; imperfectly; unfortunately; grievously; so as to cause harm; disagreeably; seriously. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Badly is often used colloquially for very much or very greatly, with words signifying to want or need. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the name of the seat of the Duke of Beaufort in England. ] 1. A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being bad. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Barbados. -- n. A native of Barbados. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or } n. A West Indian island, giving its name to a disease, to a cherry, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Barbados cherry (Bot.), a genus of trees of the West Indies (Malpighia) with an agreeably acid fruit resembling a cherry. --
Barbados leg (Med.), a species of elephantiasis incident to hot climates. --
Barbados nuts, the seeds of the Jatropha curcas, a plant growing in South America and elsewhere. The seeds and their acrid oil are used in medicine as a purgative. See Physic nut. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a dosimeter cosisting of a radiation-sensitive material, such as film, worn in a small package on a person's clothing, to record the accumulated radiation exposure of the person over a period of time; -- used to monitor the exposure of individuals, such as workers in a nuclear power plant, to ionizing radiation. [ PJC ]

imp. of Forbid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ I. or Sp. gamba leg. See Gambol, n. ] Same as Gamashes. [ 1913 Webster ]

His thin legs tenanted a pair of gambadoes fastened at the side with rusty clasps. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. The the capital city of Pakistan. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Jean de Labadie, a religious teacher of the 17th century, who left the Roman Catholic Church and taught a kind of mysticism, and the obligation of community of property among Christians. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. cebadilla. ] (Bot.) A Mexican liliaceous plant (Schoenocaulon officinale); also, its seeds, which contain the alkaloid veratrine. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic and purgative. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Somewhat hooked or curved. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An under or subordinate advocate. [ 1913 Webster ]