Bardling

A little or inferior bard. (R.) Bard olph, in Illinois, a post-village of McDonough co., 67 m. N.E. of Quincy. Bard's ey, a small island of N. Wales, in the Irish Sea, near the N. point of Cardigan Bay, co. Carnarvon. Lat. 52° 45′ N., Lon. 4° 46′ W. It is acce ible only on the S.E. side, where there is a small, well-sheltered harbor for small ve els. It owes its present name from having been the last refuge of the Welsh bards. Bards'town, or Bairds'town, in Kentucky , a post town and cap. of Nelson co., 40 m. S.E. of Louisville, and 50 m. S.W. of Frankfort. It is a handsome and prosperous place. Bards'town Junction, in Kentucky, a post-office of Bullitt co. Bare, a . [A. S. bar or bær ; Icel. ber ; Heb. bar , to open, to make evident.] Naked; without clothes or covering; as, a bare expanse. - Uncovered out of respect; as, bare headed. "Though the lords used to be covered whilst the commons were bare."-Lord Clarendon. -Plain; simple; without ornament; unpolished. (R.) "Yet was their manners then but bare and plain."- Spenser . -Poor; empty; unfurnished; indigent. "Even from a bare treasury." - Dryden. -Threadbare; much worn. "For it appears by their bare liveries, that they live by yous bare words."- Shaks. -Mere; unaccompanied; alone. "It was a bare petition of a state To one whom they had punished."- Shaks . -Raw; excoriated; as, a bare wound. -n. Substance; surface; body. (R.) -v. a. To lay open; to strip off a covering; to make naked. "The turtle on the bared branch, Laments the wounds that death did launch." - Spenser. Bare, the old preterite of bear ; now written bore . Barebone, n . [From bare and bone .] One so lean that the bones appear; a thin, attenuated person. "Here comes lean Jack, here comes barebone."-Shaks. Barebone, or BAR'BONE, PRAISE-GOD, a member of the legislative body a embled by Cromwell in 1653, after the di olution of the Long Parliament. The royalists facetiously distinguished him by calling the convention Barebone's Parliament . At the time when General Monk was in London, B. headed the mob who presented a petition to parliament, against the recall of Charles II. -It is said that there were three brothers of this family, each of whom had a sentence to his name, viz: "Praise God Barebone:" "Christ-came-into-the-world-to-save Barebone," and "If-Christ-had-not-died-thou-hadst-been damned Barebone." The parent of this hopeful family could scarcely have carried his fanaticism further in christening his children. Bareboned, a . So lean that the bones are visible. Bare faced, a . With the face bare or uncovered. "Your French crowns have no hair at all, and then you will play barefaced."-Shaks. -Shamele ; impudent; glaring. "It is most certain, that barefaced bawdry is the poorest pretence to wit imaginable." - Dryden. Bare'facedly, adv. Openly; shamefully; without reserve or disguise. "Though only some profligate wretches own it too barefacedly." Locke.