n. A badgeman; one entitled or required by law to wear a badge, as the police, licensed porters, and others.n. A fossorial plantigrade carnivorous mammal, of the family Mustelidæ and subfamily Melinæ.n. An artists' brush made of badgers' hair, used for blending or causing the pigments to melt or shade into one another and for imparting smoothness. A flat brush used for removing dust from a polished surface in some photographic and other chemical operations, etc.n. The Lutraria vulgaris, a common conchiferous or bivalve mollusk of northern Europe. It is especially used as bait for the cod.n. A sobriquet of a resident of Wisconsin, called the Badger State, in allusion to the abundance of badgers in it.To attack, as the badger is attacked when being drawn or baited; bait; worry; pester.To beat down in a bargain.Synonyms Pester, Worry, etc. See tease.n. One who buys corn and other provisions to sell them elsewhere; a hawker; a huckster; a cadger.n. An erroneous translation, in the English version of the Bible, of the Hebrew tahash, an animal whose skins are mentioned 13 times in the Old Testament as coverings for the ark of the covenant, the table of showbread, and the tabernacle itself, and once (in Ezek. xvi. 10) as a material for the shoes or sandals worn by women.n. In Australia, the bandicoot, Perameles, and, rarely, the rock-kangaroo, Petrogale.n. A soldier who wears short whiskers.n. In angling, an artificial fly having a hackle of badger cock with a dark-brown, nearly black center and cream-colored points.
