Badge

(baj.) [From A. S. beag, a necklace.] (Her.) A cognizance or exterior ornament on a tabard or suit of livery, formerly worn as a mark of distinction among families, clans, . Badger,(bājr.) (Zoël.) An animal of which there are several species, forming the gen. Taxidea, fam. Mustelidæ, characterized by a stout, robust, depre ed body, very short tail, much enlarged fore-claws, adapted to digging, and by a wedge-shaped skull. The American B. (T. American a), of Arkansas, is about 2 feet long to the tail. It lives in burrows, and digs with astonishing rapidity. [s. 68]