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Show BA BA §. Mean ; naked; without dignity ; withvalue ; bare ou What fhould the people do with thefe ba/d tri bunes On whom depending, their obedience fail Shakefpeare. To th' greater bench 6. Bald was ufed by the northern nations to fignify the fame as audax, bold; an i Baldwin S in ufe fil an b piec Builder's Diét Ba'LpERDASH. # /. [probably of balb Sax. bold, and da/b, to mingle.] An thing jumbled together without judg deftruétive Fairy Queen Boiling choler chokes Shakefpeare Dryden His balcful breath infpiring as he glides Happy Iérne, whofe moft wholefome ai Poifons envenom'd fpiders, and forbid The baleful toad and vipers from her thore. Philips adv Ba'LeruLry Sor [from baleful. rowfully; mifchievoudly BaLxk. n f. [balk, Dut. and Germ.] great beam, fuch as is ufed in building a rafter over an out-houfe or barn Bavk. z. /. [derived by Skinner from walicare ridg Ital. to pafs over. o land left unploughed between the fur courfe lord, and by this name alfo the funj and, in fom Unfeen, unfelt, the fiery ferpent fkim Betwixt her linen and her naked limbs dif mixture ; a confufe ment ; rud Mix'd with obdurate pride and ftedfaft hate. Ailt By fight of thefe, our baleful encmics in form of a ca nopy, fupported with columns, and fervIt proing as a covering to an altar perly fignifies a rich filk, Dz Cange and was a canopy carried over the hoft dialeéts again [baldachino, Ital.] of architeGture That witnefs'd huge affliétion and difmay But when he faw his threat'ning was but vain He turn'd about, and fearch'd his baleful book Gibfon Ba'LpacHIN. . fignifies a round ball, whence doavl, and bell, an ball, which the Welch term 4¢/. By the Scotc alfo the head is named 4hé/; whence the Englif bill is derived, fignifying the beak of a bird, Figuratively, the Phrygians and Thurians by Bainz underftood a king Hence alfo, in the Syriac 2. Full of mifchief inverfion Winbald, is bold congueror Ethelbald, nobly bold5 Eadbald, happil bold ; which are of the fame import a Thrafeas, Thrafymachss, and Thrafybulus, &c Ah, lucklefs babe ! born under cruel ftar And in dead parents baleful athes bred Fairy But when I feel the bitter baleful fmart ‘Which her fair eyes unwares do work in me I think that I a new Pandora fee Spenfer Round he throws his baleful eyes rows, or at the end of the field 7o BA'LDERDASH. @. 2. [from the noun.] 7o Bark. @. a. [See the noun. To mix or adulterate any liquor 1. To difappoint ; to fruftrate ; to elude Ba'Lpry. adv. [from bald.] Nakedly Another thing in the grammar fchools I fee n meanly ; inelegantly Ba'upmony ufe of, unlefs it be to ba/k young lads in learnin Locke languages Every one has a defire to keep up the vigou of his faculties, and not to &a/k his underftandin Locke by what is too hard for it But one may balk this good intent Prior And take things otherwife than meant The prices muft have been high; for a peopl Arbuthnot fo rich would not balk their fancy z /. The fame with GEn TIAN Ba'Lpw~Ess. . /. [from bald. 1. The want of hair 2. The lofs of hair ‘Which happen'd on the fkin to light And there corrupting to a wound Spreads leprofy and daldnefs round Balk'd of his prey, the yelling monfter flies Pope And fills the city with his hideous cries Savift 3. Meannefs of writing; inelegance Ba'uprick. # /. [Of uncertain etymo logy. Is there a variance? enter but his door Balk'd are the courts, and conteft is no more 2. To mifs any thing; to leave untouched By grifly Pluto he doth fwear By fome Ditionaries it i 1. A girdle explained a ébraceler ; but I have no found it in that fenfe 2. The zodiack That like the twins of Jove they feem'd in fight Which deck the baldrick of the heavens bright Spenfer BavLE. ./, [balle, Fr.] A bundle or parce of goods packed up for carriage One hired an afs, in the dog-days, to carry cerL' Eftrange tain bales of goods to fuch a town It is part of the bales in which bohea tea wa Woodward brought over from China BaLk. n. /. [bal, Sax. bale, Dan. bal, bol Icelandifh. Mifery ; calamity She look'd about, and feeing one in mai Armed to point, fought back to turn again For light the hated as the deadly-bale. ~ Fairy Q Z0 BALE. . a. A word ufed by the failors who bid bale out the water; that is lawe it out, by way of diftinétion fro umping. Skinner I believe from bail 2, Fr. to deliver from hand to hand 9o BALE. . #. [emballer, Fr. imballure Ital.] To make up into a bale BA'LEFUL. adj. [from bale. 1. Full of mifery ; full of grief; forrowful; fad woeful About his head he lets it walk Nor doth he any creature ba/k But lays on all he meeteth. Drayton's Nimpbid 3. 'To omit, or refufe, any thing . This was looked for atyour hand, and this wa Shake[peare balkt fomethin lik 'This, o on a ridge this, feem t b in tended here Te thoufan bol Scots thre an twent knights Balkd in their own blood, did Sir Walter fe On Holmedon's plains Shakefpeare Ba'kErs. z /. [In filhery.] Men wh ftand on a cliff, or high place on th thore, and give a fign to the men in th fithing-boats, which way the paflage o Cowell fhole of herrings is The pilchards are purfued by a bigger fifh called a pluther, who leapeth above water, and bewrayeth them to the balker. Carew's Sur. of Corn Bawr. n. f. [bol, Dan. &ol, Dutch. Bal, diminutively Belin, the fun, or Apollo, o the Celtz, was called by the ancient Gauls Zbe/fio. Whatever was round, and in particular th head, was called by the ancients either B/, o Bel, and likewife Bo/ and Biil. Among the modern Perfians, the head is called Po/e; and th Flemings ftill call the head Boile. Tiénss is th head or poll; and mansiy, 1s to turn B fignifie diale€ts, "HA and 'In, whence *Inog and "Hauog T/Awg and Bnitog, and alfo, in the Celtick dimi nutive way of expreflion,"Eevos, T'érevo, and Béaevog, fignified the funj and "EAéyn, Terévn, and Berévn the moon Among the Teutonicks, bo/ and hei have the fame meaning; whence the adjective bolig, or heilig, is derived, and fignifies divine o holy; and the afpiration being changed into f Baxter the Romans form their So/ 1. Any thing made in a round form, o approaching to round Worms with many feet round themfelves int balls under logs of timber, but not in the timber Bacon Nor arms they wear, nor fwords-and buckler wield But whirl from leathern ftrings huge 4a//s of lead.Dryden. Like a ball'of fhow tumbling down a hill, he gathered ftrength as he pafled Howell Still unripen'd in the dewy mines Within the é2// a trembling water fhines That through the cryftal darts Addifon Such of thofe corpufcles as happened to combin into one mafs, formed. the metallick and minera balls, or nodules, which we find Woodward 2. A round thing to play with, either with the hand or foot, or a racket Balls to the ftars, and thralls to fortune's reign, Turn'd from themfelves, infected with their cage ‘Where death is fear'd, and life is held with pain Sidney.Thofe I have feen play at ball, grow extremely Sidneyoearneft who thould have the bal/l 3. A {mall round thing, with fome particular mark, by which votes are given or lots caft Let lots. decide its For ev'ry number'd captive put a ball Into an urnj three only black be there Dryden Abfolves the juft, and dooms the guilty fouls. Drydo Which foon he taketh by the ftalk T likewif Round in his urn the blended 4a//s he rowls An acorn cup he greeteth 4 an Minos, the firi¢t inquifitor, appears And as he runneth here and there heap, a Bin The reft, all white, are fafe He rent his clothes, and tore his hai Athwart his breaft a baldrick brave he ware That fhin'd, like twinkling ftare, with ftones mof Fairy Queen precious rare A radiant baldrick, o'er his fhoulders tied Suftain'd the fword that glitter'd at his fide. Pgpe Pope Badn Benss likewif 4. A globe ; as, the 4a// of the earth Julius-and Antony, thofe lords of all Low-at her feet.prefent the conquer'd ball Granwille.Ye gods, what juftice rules the.Jal/ PopesFreedom and arts together fall 5. globe borne as an enfign of fove reignty Hear the tragedy of a young man, that by righ ought to hold the 4al/ of a kingdom; but, b fortune, is made himfelfa ball, toffied from mifer Bacon to mifery, from place to place 6. Any part of the body that approache to roundnefs ; as, the lower and {fwellin part of the thumb; the apple of the eye Be fubje To every ey To mak bend fo, tha eye to no fight but mine; invifibl Shake[peare ball elfe a ftern countenance, let your bro it' may almoft touch the ba// of th Peacham 7. The fkin {pread over a hollow piece of wood, ftuffed with hair or wool, which the printers dip in ink, to fpread it'o the letters. Bavri. #. [ [bal, Fr. from balare; lo Lat. from Baanilew, to dance.] An entertainmen of dancing at whic th preparations are made at the expenc of fome particular perfon |