bawdl (bad)

[Early mod. E. also baud, bay ment or clamorous outcries, as in pain, exultation, etc.; shout. That bawl for freedom in their sensele mood, And still revolt when truth would set them free. Milton , Sonnets, vii. Pa ing under Ludgate the other day, I heard a voice bawling for charity. Steele , Spectator, No. 82. II. trans. 1. To utter or proclaim by outery; shout out. Still must I hear?-shall hoarse Fitzgerald bawl His creaking couplets in a tavern hall? Byron , English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. IMG:content-1764.png:[blocks in formation] baviant (bā'vi-an), n. A variant form of baboon. baviert, n. An obsolete form of beaver2.