Index of English words, starting with "ba"

(1) - Badge (v. t.) To mark or distinguish with a badge.
(2) - Badge (n.) A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.
(3) - Badge (n.) Something characteristic; a mark; a token.
(4) - Badge (n.) A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman.

(1) - Badger (v. t.) To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.
(2) - Badger (v. t.) To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.
(3) - Badger (n.) A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists.
(4) - Badger (n.) 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 (M. vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana / Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.
(5) - Badger (n.) 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.

(1) - Badinage (n.) Playful raillery; banter.