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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

B'ARD, n.
1. A poet and a singer among the ancient Celts; one whose occupation was to compose and sing verses, in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men. The bards used an instrument of music like a lyre or guitar, and not only praised the brave, but reproached the cowardly.
2. In modern usage, a poet.
B'ARD, n. The trappings of a horse.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a lyric poet
2: an ornamental caparison for a horse v
1: put a caparison on; "caparison the horses for the festive occasion" [syn: caparison, bard, barde, dress up]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Scottish Gaelic & Irish Date: 15th century 1. a. a tribal poet-singer skilled in composing and reciting verses on heroes and their deeds b. a composer, singer, or declaimer of epic or heroic verse 2. poet • bardic adjective II. noun or barde Etymology: Middle French barde, from Old Italian barda, from Arabic dialect bard‘a packsaddle, saddle cover Date: 15th century a piece of armor or ornament for a horse's neck, breast, or flank III. transitive verb Date: circa 1521 1. to furnish with bards 2. to dress meat for cooking by covering with strips of fat

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. 1 a hist. a Celtic minstrel. b the winner of a prize for Welsh verse at an Eisteddfod. 2 poet. a poet, esp. one treating heroic themes. Phrases and idioms: the Bard (or the Bard of Avon) Shakespeare. Derivatives: bardic adj. Etymology: Gael. & Ir. bárd, Welsh bardd, f. OCelt. 2. n. & v. --n. a rasher of fat bacon placed on meat or game before roasting. --v.tr. cover (meat etc.) with bards. Etymology: F barde, orig. = horse's breastplate, ult. f. Arab.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Eelpout Eel"pout`, n. [AS. ?lepute.] (Zo["o]l.) (a) A European fish (Zoarces viviparus), remarkable for producing living young; -- called also greenbone, guffer, bard, and Maroona eel. Also, an American species (Z. anguillaris), -- called also mutton fish, and, erroneously, congo eel, ling, and lamper eel. Both are edible, but of little value. (b) A fresh-water fish, the burbot.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bard Bard, Barde Barde, n. [F. barde, of doubtful origin.] 1. A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [Often in the pl.] 2. pl. Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms. 3. (Cookery) A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bard Bard, v. t. (Cookery) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bard Bard, n. [Of Celtic origin; cf. W. bardd, Arm. barz, Ir. & Gael. bard, and F. barde.] 1. A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men. 2. Hence: A poet; as, the bard of Avon.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bard Bard, n. [Akin to Dan. & Sw. bark, Icel. b["o]rkr, LG. & HG. borke.] 1. The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind. 2. Specifically, Peruvian bark. Bark bed. See Bark stove (below). Bark pit, a pit filled with bark and water, in which hides are steeped in tanning. Bark stove (Hort.), a glazed structure for keeping tropical plants, having a bed of tanner's bark (called a bark bed) or other fermentable matter which produces a moist heat.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(bards) A bard is a poet. (LITERARY or OLD-FASHIONED) N-COUNT

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

People sometimes refer to William Shakespeare as the Bard. ...a new production of the Bard's early tragedy, Richard III. N-PROPER: the N

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Harper, minstrel, poet. 2. Larding-strip, larding-bacon, bacon-strip.

Moby Thesaurus

Meistersinger, Parnassian, arch-poet, ballad maker, ballad singer, balladeer, balladmonger, beat poet, bucoliast, elegist, epic poet, fili, folk singer, folk-rock singer, gleeman, idyllist, imagist, jongleur, laureate, librettist, major poet, maker, minnesinger, minor poet, minstrel, modernist, muse, occasional poet, odist, pastoral poet, pastoralist, poet, poet laureate, poetress, rhapsode, rhapsodist, satirist, scop, serenader, skald, sonneteer, street singer, strolling minstrel, symbolist, troubadour, trouveur, trovatore, vers libriste, vers-librist, wait, wandering minstrel