badger
7 definitions found
badger - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Badger \Badg"er\, n. [Of uncertain origin; perh. fr. an old verb
badge to lay up provisions to sell again.]
An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a
hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who
bought grain in one place and sold it in another. [Now
dialectic, Eng.]
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Badger \Badg"er\, n. [OE. bageard, prob. fr. badge + -ard, in
reference to the white mark on its forehead. See Badge,n.]
1. A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or of an
allied genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick
legs, and long claws on the fore feet. One species (Meles meles
or Meles vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits
the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea taxus
or Taxidea Americana or Taxidea Labradorica)
inhabits the northern parts of North America. See
Teledu.
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2. A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists.
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Badger dog. (Zool.) See Dachshund.
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Badger \Badg"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Badgered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Badgering.] [For sense 1, see 2d Badger; for 2, see
1st Badger.]
1. To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or
irritate persistently.
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2. To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.
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badger - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
Badger
n 1: a native or resident of Wisconsin [syn: Wisconsinite,
Badger]
2: sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely
distributed in the northern hemisphere
v 1: annoy persistently; "The children teased the boy because of
his stammer" [syn: tease, badger, pester, bug,
beleaguer]
2: persuade through constant efforts
badger - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :
Badger
this word is found in Ex. 25:5; 26:14; 35:7, 23; 36:19; 39:34;
Num. 4:6, etc. The tabernacle was covered with badgers' skins;
the shoes of women were also made of them (Ezek. 16:10). Our
translators seem to have been misled by the similarity in sound
of the Hebrew _tachash_ and the Latin _taxus_, "a badger." The
revisers have correctly substituted "seal skins." The Arabs of
the Sinaitic peninsula apply the name _tucash_ to the seals and
dugongs which are common in the Red Sea, and the skins of which
are largely used as leather and for sandals. Though the badger
is common in Palestine, and might occur in the wilderness, its
small hide would have been useless as a tent covering. The
dugong, very plentiful in the shallow waters on the shores of
the Red Sea, is a marine animal from 12 to 30 feet long,
something between a whale and a seal, never leaving the water,
but very easily caught. It grazes on seaweed, and is known by
naturalists as Halicore tabernaculi.
badger - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :
Badger, IA (city, FIPS 4195)
Location: 42.61231 N, 94.14260 W
Population (1990): 569 (214 housing units)
Area: 4.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 50516
Badger, MN (city, FIPS 3160)
Location: 48.77609 N, 96.02071 W
Population (1990): 381 (176 housing units)
Area: 3.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 56714
Badger, SD (town, FIPS 3060)
Location: 44.48571 N, 97.20940 W
Population (1990): 114 (53 housing units)
Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 57214
badger - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "badger":
aggravate, annoy, bait, be at, bedevil, beset, blackmail, bother,
bristle, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burn up, chivy, devil,
discompose, distemper, disturb, dog, exact, exasperate, exercise,
extort, fash, force from, get, gripe, harass, harry, heckle,
hector, hound, irk, levy blackmail, miff, molest, nag, needle,
nettle, nudzh, peeve, persecute, pester, pick on, pique, plague,
pluck the beard, pother, provoke, pry loose from, rend, rend from,
ride, rile, rip, rip from, roil, ruffle, screw, shake down,
snatch from, squeeze, tear from, tease, torment, try the patience,
tweak the nose, vex, worry, wrench, wrench from, wrest, wring,
wring from
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