bardship (bardship)

[ The Captain... showed a particular respect for my bardship . Burns , Border Tour, p. 569. ( N. E. D. ) bardy (bär'di), a. [ barel (bar), a. [ Envy finds Ezek. xvi. 7. More food in cities than on mountains bare . Lowell , Dara. 2. With the head uncovered. In numismatic descriptions, said of a head on a coin or medal when uncovered or devoid of any adornment, such as a diadem or laurel-wreath. When once thy foot enters the church, be bare . Herbert, Church Porch. Thou stand est bare to him now, work est for him. Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 357. 3. Open to view; unconcealed; undisguised. Bare in thy guilt, how foul must thou appear! Milton , S. A., 1. 902. 4. Lacking in appropriate covering or equipment; unfurnished: as, bare walls. - 5t. Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish. Yet was their manners then but bare and plain. albarda ), a strip of bacon; a particular use of barde , trappings: see bard2 .] A strip of bacon 6. Threadle ; naple . used to cover a fowl or meat in roasting. bard3 (bärd), v. t. [ thin bacon, as a bird or meat to be roasted. bardasht (bär'dash), n. [F. bardache, IMG:content-1665.png:[blocks in formation] Bardesanists. Bardes an ist (bär-des'a-nist), n. followers of Barde sanes, of Ede a, in Me so pot am i a, in the second and third centuries. He is said to have taught doctrines resembling those of the Gnostic Val ent in us, namely: a self-existent principle of evil; that the soul is imprisoned in the body by way of punishment; and that therefore a body was not a umed by Christ in his incarnation, and is not to be raised at the resurrection. Recent discu ions have shown, however, that the true nature of his doctrines remains an open question. There are still extant Syriac hymns and prose works ascribed to Barde sanes.