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A piece of music composed in imitation of such a song.
A vessel for freight; -- used in Mediterranean.
Specifically, Peruvian bark.
To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.
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.
Hence: A poet; as, the bard of Avon.
Alt. of Barde
The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [Often in the pl.]
A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.
Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.
Wearing rich caparisons.
Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse.
Of or pertaining to bards, or their poetry.
Pertaining to, or written by, a bard or bards.
The system of bards; the learning and maxims of bards.
An inferior bard.
The state of being a bard.
Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.