baddest (badest)

Old superlative of bad. See bad1 . The baddest among the cardinals is chosen pope. Sir E. Sandys , State of Religion. baddish (bad'ish), a . [ bad1 +-ish1.] Somewhat bad; of inferior character or quality. He wrote baddish verses. Jeffrey. A snuffy, babbling, baddish fellow. Carlyle , The Century, XXIV. 24. badget OD. blaer, bald, blare, blaere, D. blaar, a white spot on the forehead; cf. also the equiv. name bauson.] 1. A fo orial plantigrade carnivorous mammal, of the family Mustelidæ and subfamily Melina. (For its technical characters, see Meli na.) The common European species, to which the name was first applied, is Meles vulgar is or Meles taxus; it is about 2 feet long, of heavy and clumsy shape, low on the legs, with a short thick tail, a long snout, and long claws fitted for digging. The general color is grizzled gray, with dark limbs, and black and white stripes on the head. This animal inhabits temperate and northerly portions of Europe and Asia. Its flesh is used as food, its pelt in furriery, and its hair for making shaving-brushes and the kind of artists' brushes called badgers. In a state of nature the animal is le fetid than some of the other species. The American badger, Taxidea american a, resembles the foregoing, but differs in the dental formula and some other technical characters; it is a common animal in the western States and Territories, and in some regions, as the Mi ouri watershed, it is very abundant. The Indian badger is Arctonyx collar is; it is also called sand - bear and bear - pig. The Javanese skunk (so called from its extreme fetidne ), the teledu or tele go, Mydaus meliceps, is a true badger. See cut under teledu. The ratel, honey-badger, or Cape badger, Mellivora capensis, is nearly related, though belonging to a different subfamily, the Mel livor in a. The wombat is often called badger in Australia. It is a widespread vulgar error that the legs of the badger are shorter on one side than on the other; hence, "the uneven - legg'd badger," Drayton. We are not badgers , For our legs are one as long as the other. IMG:content-1544.png:[graphic][merged small] 2. (a) An artists' brush made of badgers' hair, used for blending or causing the pigments to melt or shade into one another and for imparting smoothne . (b) A flat brush used for removing dust from a polished surface in some photographic and other chemical operations, etc.-3. The Lutraria vulgar is, a common conchiferous or bivalve mollusk of northern Europe. It is especially used as bait for the cod. -4. A sobriquet of a resident of Wisconsin, called the Badger State, in allusion to the abundance of badgers in it. - Drawing the badger. Same as badger - baiting. badger2 (baj'ér), v. t. [ Inconsistent profe ors, who seemed to have badgered him [Thomas Cooper] out of Methodism into scepticism. Caroline Fox , Journal, p. 542. When one has to be badgered like this, one wants a drop of something more than ordinary. Trollope , Orley Farm. 2. To beat down in a bargain. [Prov. Eng.] Hall i well . =Syn. Pester , Worry, etc. See tease . badger3 (baj'er), n. [ bager , of obscure origin, perhaps an a ibilated form (arising from its legal use, in an AF. or L. form) of bagger (which does not occur in the lit. sense till much later), in allusion to the hawker's bag, bag1 +-er1. Cf. pedder , pedler , peddler , ped , badgeer, n. See badgir . badgele (baj'les), a. [ badge1 + -le .] Hava basket, pannier.] One who buys corn and IMG:content-1545.png:[blocks in formation] bade (bad). Preterit of bid.