BADGER

n. Ba?j'uér. Fr., blaireau (1st, def.). Ger., Dachs (ist def.). 1. The Meles taxus,a plantigrade animal of Europe. Its fat (axungia taxi) was formerly used in medicine. [A, 359.] 2. The Hyrax capensis [Cuvier], termed b. by the Cape Colonists, the dry excrements of which are supposed to constitute the drug hyraceum Gg.) [A, 247; L.j—B's-bane. The Aconitum meloctonum. [B, 19.