baldmoney, baldmony, bawd money, baldemoyne

[A corruption of Lat. valde bona = exceedingly good (Prior). Dr. Murray says that the early forms point to a Fr. baudemoine (which is not found).] * A. Of the forms baldmony, * baldemoyne: A gentian. (Johnson, .) B. Of the forms baldmoney and bawd money: An English name applied to the Meum, a genus of umbelliferous plants. One species occurs in Britain, the M. at ham anti cum = Common Baldmoney or Meum. It has IMG:content-1006.png:[merged small][graphic][merged small][merged small] 1. Partial or total absence of hair on a human being, whether arising from disease or from old age. [ALOPECIA.] his shode shamed not the harme of balledne e, and whenne he is i clipped in squar the forhede, be sheweth as a lyounus visage."- Rob . of Glouc., p. 482. (S. in Boucher .) on all their heads shall be baldne , and every beard cut off."- / sa. xv. 2. 2. Absence of feathers from the crown and back of the head in a vulture or other bird. "Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldne as the eagle."- Mic . 1. 16. In the example from Micah the word translated "eagle" is probably a species of vulture. II. Figuratively: 1. Such destruction as leaves a city bare of inhabitants, if not even of edifices. "Baldne is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remuant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?"- Jer . xlvii. 5. 2. Absence of all ornament or even elegance. (Specially of composition.) "Borde has all the baldne of allusion, and barbarity of versification, belonging to Skelton, without his strokes of satire and severity."-Warton: Bist.of Eng . Poetry, fii. 74. bald-ric, * bald-rick, * bâuld-rick, * bâud-rick, * bâu-děr-yk, bawdrick, * bâwd'-rycke, *bâw'-der-ýke, * bâw-dryk, * baw-drikke, baldreye, bow-drěg, bâw-dryg (au or aw in some of these words is softened from ald, which is the older form), s. [In M. & O. Н. Ger. balderich. According to Mudge, from Low Lat. bald ring us ; according to Ducange, from Low Lat. baldrellus . In either case, remotely from Cla . Lat. balteus = a girdle, a belt,. the zodiac. In A.S. belt ; Sw. balte ; Icel. balti ; Dan. boelte ; Fr. baudrier ; O. Fr. baudrier, baudre ; Ital. budriere .] [BELT.] IMG:content-1007.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1008.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-1009.png:[blocks in formation] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia *3. Any one of the subsidiary ropes used in ringing church bells ( Boucher ); or the rope by means of which a bell is rung. for making the bawdryk of the great belle, xii d." -Add. MSS., Mus. Brit., 6,761, f. 40. (S. in Boucher.) II. Fig .: The zodiac viewed as a gem studded belt encircling the heavens. (See Lat. balteus in the etymology.) "That like the Twins of Jove, they seem'd in sight, Which deck the baldrick of the heavens bright." Spenser: F. Q., V. 1. 11. a. baldric-wise, bauldrick-wise, Resembling a baldric; ornamented like a baldric. "And not the meanst, but, bauldrick - wise, doth wear Some goodly garland Drayton, iv. 1,464. ( Boucher.)