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Webster 1913 Edition


Bard

Bard

(bärd)
,
Noun.
[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
.

Bard

,
Verb.
T.
(Cookery)
To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.

Bard

,
Noun.
[Akin to Dan. & Sw.
bark
, Icel.
börkr
, 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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Bard

B'ARD

,
Noun.
1.
A poet and a singer among the ancient Celts; one whose occupation was to compose and sing verses, in honor of the heroic
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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

,
Noun.
The trappings of a horse.

Definition 2024


Bard

Bard

See also: bard, bárd, bàrd, and Bård

English

Proper noun

Bard

  1. An occupational surname.
  2. (usually with "the") William Shakespeare.
    • 1854, Edwin Lees, Stratford as connected with Shakespeare; and the bard's rural haunts, page 46
      We have previously traced Shakespeare from his Birth-place to the Grammar School, and we shall now glance at his career as a lover, and in so doing propose a pleasant walk of a short mile to Shottery, a rural hamlet in the parish of Stratford , where Anne Hathaway resided, to whom the Bard became affianced at a very early period in his life.
    • 1866, The Albion, quoted in, Arthur W. Bloom, Edwin Booth: A Biography and Performance History, McFarland (ISBN 9781476601465), page 207
      It evidently needs no effort on the part of Mr. Booth to put himself en rapport with the ideal of the great Bard.
    • 2002, Diana Brydon, Irene Rima Makaryk, Shakespeare in Canada: A World Elsewhere, University of Toronto Press (ISBN 9780802036551), page 108
      Nearly a dozen such enterprises now struggle each summer against the vagaries of rough weather and mosquito swarms to bring the Bard to the nation.
    • 2009, Jack Lynch, Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a Provincial Playwright into the Bard, Bloomsbury Publishing USA (ISBN 9780802718679), page 8
      I hope that the selection of stories is illuminating for those who have never thought about what happened after the death of the immortal Bard.
    • 2010, Erin Dionne, The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet, Penguin (ISBN 9781101155752)
      “We are going to undertake an exploration of the Bard's poetic structure and language,” Mom went on.

French

Etymology

Multiple origins.

Proper noun

Bard

  1. A surname.

bard

bard

See also: Bard, bárd, bàrd, Bård, and bård

English

Noun

bard (plural bards)

  1. A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
  2. (by extension) A poet.
    the bard of Avon
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From French barde. English since the late 15th century.

Noun

bard (plural bards)

  1. A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.)
  2. Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.
  3. (cooking) A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.
  4. The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
  5. Specifically, Peruvian bark.
Translations

Verb

bard (third-person singular simple present bards, present participle barding, simple past and past participle barded)

  1. To cover a horse in defensive armor.
    • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 29:
      The defensive armor with which the horses of the ancient knights or men at arms were covered, or, to use the language of the time, barded, consisted of the following pieces made either of metal or jacked leather, the Chamfron, Chamfrein or Shaffron, the Criniere or Main Facre, the Poitrenal, Poitral or Breast Plate, and the Croupiere or Buttock Piece.
  2. (cooking) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.

Anagrams


French

Noun

bard m (plural bards)

  1. A sort of stretcher, with no wheels, used for transporting materials
  2. A sawhorse

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish bard, from Proto-Celtic *bardos.

Pronunciation

Noun

bard m (genitive singular baird, nominative plural baird)

  1. poet (of a certain rank); bard
  2. scold

Declension

Derived terms

  • filíocht na mbard (bardic poetry)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bard bhard mbard
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • "bard" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • bard” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic بَارِد (bārid).

Adjective

bard

  1. cold

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish bard, from Proto-Celtic *bardo-s.

Noun

bard m (genitive singular ?, plural bardyn)

  1. bard
  2. poet

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bard vard mard
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Synonyms

  • bardagh
  • bardoonagh

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *bardos.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bar͈d/

Noun

bard m

  1. bard
  2. poet

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
Genitive
Dative
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Synonyms

  • éices
  • fer cerda
  • fili
  • túar

Descendants