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n. One of an ancient Celtic order of minstrel poets who composed and recited verses celebrating the legendary exploits of chieftains and heroes.

n. A poet, especially a lyric poet.

n. A piece of armor used to protect or ornament a horse.

v. To equip (a horse) with bards.

v. To cover (meat) in thin pieces of bacon or fat to preserve moisture during cooking.

n. 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.

n. Hence: A poet; as, the bard of Avon.

n. A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.)

n. Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.

n. A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.

n. The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.

n. Specifically, Peruvian bark.

v. To cover a horse in defensive armor.

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

n. 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.

n. Hence: A poet.

n. A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [Often in the pl.]

n. Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.

n. A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.

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

n. The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.

n. Specifically, Peruvian bark.

n. A poet and 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, and on other subjects, generally to the accompaniment of the harp.

n. Formerly, in Scotland, a strolling musician; a minstrel: classed with vagabonds, as an object of penal laws.

n. In modern use, a poet: as, the bard of Avon (Shakspere); the Ayrshire bard (Burns).

n.

n. A scold: applied only to women.

n. Any one of the pieces of defensive armor used in medieval Europe to protect the horse.

n. Hence plural The housings of a horse, used in tourneys, justs, and processions during the later middle ages. They were most commonly of stuff woven or embroidered with the arms of the rider.

n. plural Armor of metal plates, worn in the sixteenth century and later. See armor.

To caparison with bards, as a horse; to furnish or accoutre with armor, as a man.

n. A strip of bacon used to cover a fowl or meat in roasting.

To cover with thin bacon, as a bird or meat to be roasted.

n. a lyric poet

v. put a caparison on

n. an ornamental caparison for a horse

"The reason which induced me to do so was the knowledge of an appalling tragedy transacted there in the old time, in which there is every reason to suppose a certain Welsh bard, called Lewis"

barde   

barded    barding    bards   

poet    grace    decorate    beautify    ornament    adorn    embellish    trapping    housing    caparison   

bardic   

poet    singer    armour   

Bernard    Brossard    Chard    Gerard    Gillard    Girard    Godard    Picard    Yard    ard   

musician    historian    seer    dramatist    poet    sculptor    minstrel    orator    sage    patriot