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Show BA Baekwarp ] adw 'Khey weat backward, and their faces were back ward Gengfis That e'er receiv'd gift from him And does he think {o backwardly of me ShakefpeareThat I'll requiteit laft Ba'ckWARDNESS. #. /i [from backward. The thing by whic in leaping with weights, the arms are firft cal . backwards greater force; for the hands go backward befor Bacon they take:their rife 3. On the back Then darting fire from her malignant eyes She caft him backzoard as he frove to rife. Dryd 4. From the prefent ftation to the plac beyond the back ‘We might have met them dareful, beard to beard Shakefpeare And beat them backward home The monftrous figh Struck them with horrour backward; but far werf Dilton ' Urg'd them behind 5. Regreflively Are not the rays of light, in paffing by the edge and fides of bodies, bent feveral times backward + and forwards with a motion like that of an ecl Neavton 6. Towards fomething paft To prove the pofiibility of a thing, there is n argument to that which looks dackevards 5 for wha _ has been done or fuffered may certainly be done o South fuffered again 7. Reflex No, doubtlefs ; for the mind can backward caf Upon herfelf, her underftandinglight. Sir . Dawies 8. From a better to a worfe ftate The work went backwward; and the more he ftrov T' advance the fuit, the farther frora herlove. Dryd in time patt They have fpread one of the worft languages i the world, if we look upon it fome reigns backLocke © award 10. Perveifely; from the wrong end I neyer yet faw man But the would fpell him backavard ; if fair-fac'd She'd fwear the gentleman fhould be her fifter Shakefpeare Ba'cxwarp. adj 1. Unwilling ; averfe Qur mutability makes the friends of our natio . <backwoard to enzage with us i ‘We are ftrangely backwar fafe, this only metiiod of cure Citicslaid wafte, they fform' For wifer brutes are backwar alliances. Addifon to lay hold of thi Arterbury the densand caves to be flaves. Pope 2. Hefitating _ whofe mind is backward no Shakefpeare 5. Sluggith ; dilatory Th is backward to undergo the fatigu min Watts of weighing every argument 4- Dull not quick or apprehenfive It often falls out that the backwar learne South makes amends another way 5. Late; coming after fomething elfe : as backward fruits; backward children fruits long in ripening ; children flo _of growth Ba'ckwarp. # /i The things or flat behind or paft: poetical What feeft thou elf of abyfm of time ? Shakefp In the dark backwar Ba'ckwaRDLY adv [from backward. 3. Unwillingly; averfely; with the bac forward Like Numid lions by the hunters chas'd Though they do fly, yet backwardly do g With proud afpedt, difdaining greater hafte, Sidney 2 Slownefs of progreflion tardinefs. ti th en ba fr bl ob [p / Ba'cON dried flefh. 1. The flefli of 2 hog falted and dried High o'er the h=arth a chine of bacor hung Good old Philemon feiz'd it with a prong Dryden Then cut a flice 2. To fave the dacon, is a phraf for pre {erving one's {elf from being hurt; bor i iv fe ho o car th fr e ro the country, where they have feldo any other provifion in the houfe tha dried bacon, to fecure it from the march ing foldiers frightens yo Wha thus, my good fon? fay the prieft Vou murder'd, are forry, and have been confeft O father | ‘my forrow will {carce fave my bacon For 'twas not that I murder'd, but that I wa Prior taken BacuLo' METRY. 7. f. [from baculus, Lat and token of that facred character whiochpe ; f ardly bears 2. A token by which one is known, r;yv A favage tygrefs on her helmet lies The famous budge Clatinda us'd to bear, F"'(film 3. The mark or token of any thing There appears much joy in him ; evenfo muc that joy could not fhew itfelf modeft enough) wigh szllze_/'pm} out a badge of bitternefs Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. Sbakelji "¢ Let hom not bear the badges of a wrecl clean.sh data import.tsv out README Dpyg Nor beg with a blue table on his back 7% BavcE 4 the noun. [fro mark as with a badge T Your royal father 's murder'd- --Oh, by whom fe- Thole of his chamber, as it feem'd; had done Their hands and faces were all badg'd with blge Sbakejcar, S5 were their daggers n. J. [bedour, Fr. melis, atél An animal that earths in the groun ufed to be hunted Ba'DGER That a brock, or sadger, hath legs of one fig fhorter than the other, is received notonly by theo rifts and unexperience behold them daily BA'DGER-LEGGED believers, but moft wh Brown adj. [from badger an legged.] Having legs of an unequa length, as the badger is fuppofe t D have His body crooked all over, big-bellied, badger and péreor.] The art of meafuring diflegged, and his complexion fwarthy. L'Effrange Di& tances by one or more ftaves Ba'pGERr. 7. /. [perhaps from the Lat BAD. adj. [ quaad, Dutch ; compar. wor/e ; bajulus, acarrier ; but by Funius derive fuperl. wor/?. 1. 1lI; not good : a general word ufed i regard to phyfical or moral fanits, eithe of men or things Moft men have politicks enough to make through violence, the beft fcheme of governmen Pope one Thou may'ft repent And one bad a&, with many deeds well done Milton May'ft cover Thus will the latter, as the former, worl Milton Still tend from bad to worfe Our unhappy fate Mix thee amongft the bad, or make thee ru . Too near the paths which virtue bids thee fhun 3. Unfortunate ; unhappy Prior The fun his annual courfe obliquely made Good days contraéted, and enlarg'd the dad. Dryd 4. Hurtful ; unwholefomne ; mifchievous All things are ready, if our minds be fo Perifh the man /!z{;rb;zr_v ties 2. Vitious ; corrupt if tall, a launce ill-headed Made a foul blot tha hath been obferved to attend well-defigning chari a ba nature, drawing of an antick If black, why we are apt to excufe ou backwardnefs to good works, is the ill foccef th then forwards, with fo muc an i c f o h o The outward {plendo 1. Dulnefs ; unwillingnefs ; fluggifhneis 2. Towards the back h d b u i o g a t k f e f o For w 1 was the fivft ma Sax. that is, to wards the back ; contrary to forwards. 1. With the back forwards B-A back,. and '2. Perverfely ; or with cold hope [fro Ba‘ckwarps. { peand BA pernicious : with for Reading was bad for his eyes, writing made hi head ake Addifon 5. Sick with of' IBL:E}; The preterite of bid as, bad of a fever And for an earneft of greater honour He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdey Shake[peare Bapce z /. [ A word of uncertain etymo logy; derived by Famnius from bode o bade, a meflenger, and {uppofed to b corrupted from badage, the credential o a meflenger ; but taken by Skinuer an Minfbew from bagghe, Dut. a jewel, o bague, Fr, a ring. Tt feems to come from bajulo, to carry, Lat. 1. A mark or cognizance worn to fhe the relation of the wearer to any perfo or thing But on his breaft a bloody crofs he bare The dear refemblance of his dying lord from the badger, a creature who flow up his provifion.] One that buys co and vituals in one place, and carrie Coawell it unto another Ba'oLY. adv. [from bad.] In a ba AR manner ; not well How goes the day with us ? O tell me, Huberte Badly, 1 fear. How fares your majefty ? Shake Ba'p~ess. #. /. [from bad.] Want of goo either natural or moral 5 de qualities fert; depravity It was not your brother's evil difpofition mad him feek his death; but a provoking merit, fe a work by a reproveable badngfs in himfelf. Shok Ther is one convenience in this city, whic makes fome amends for the badnefs of the pave ment Addifor on Iraly I did not fee how the badnefs of the weathe ddflffifl - could be the king's fault To BA'FFLE. @. a. [baffer, Fr. 1. To elude ; to make ineffettual They made a fhift to think themfelves guiltlefs, in fpite of all their fins; to break the precept uth and at the fame time to saffle the curfe He hath deferved to have the grace withdraw which he hath fo long baffled and defied, Arterbary 2. To confound ; to defeatwith fome con fufion, as by perplexing or amufing: bajfle 1s fometimes lefs than to conguer Df]lf Etruria loft He brings to Turnus' aid his baffled hoft When the mind has broughtifelf toclofe think ing, it may goon roundly. Every abftrufe problem every intricate queftion, will not baffiés d;fcoul'%if or. break it .'L.dfl: A foreign potentate trembles at a war ‘fmhftc Englif revenue Cfluntry nation, ready to employ agamfi hm.l as fhall baffl hi defigns q%fflfl e Ba''¥rLE. 7 /i [from the verb.] A M‘; ; It is the fkill of the difputant that keelfis:" affe 2, their "%"""" of e The authors having mif fain to retreat with fruftration and 8 é@‘ Ba's |