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bail [Hind], ox; bullock. Written also byle. —bail-gari, ox cart; bullock
wagon: India.
baile [Sp], a dance; ball: southwestern U.S.
bain-marie [Fr; pi. bains-marie], a saucepan of boiling water in which
a bowl or other vessel is immersed to heat its contents: cookery.
baïonnette au canon! [Fr], fix bayonets!: mil.
bairagi [Hind], Hindu religious mendicant. Called also vairagi.
bairam [Ar], a Muslim festival.
baisser le drapeau [Fr], to lower the colors.
baisser le pavillon [Fr], to strike one's flag; surrender.
baissez les stores [Fr], pull down the shades; lower the blinds. Store is
a window shade, or blind, mounted on a spring roller.
baja [Hind], musical instrument: India.
Bajonett ab! [Ger], unfix bayonets!: mil.
baken [Du], beacon; landmark.
bakra [Hind; fern, bakri], goat: India.
bakshish or baksheesh [Hind & Pers bakhshish], gratuity; tip: Oriental.
bal [Fr], ball; dance. —bal champêtre, country ball. —bal masqué,
masked ball. —bal paré (or costumé), fancy-dress ball.
balabos [Yiddish], master.
balabustah [Yiddish], a fine housekeeper.
balayeuse [Fr], lit., female sweeper; a frill or ruffle on the inside lower
edge of a skirt.
baldacchino [It], canopy of state; baldachin.
baliki [Russ], salted and smoked pieces of sturgeon.
baliverne [Fr], nonsense; stuff; humbug.
ballerina [It; pi. ballerine], female ballet dancer; danseuse.
ballet d'action [Fr], pantomimic dance.
ballon d'essai [Fr], trial balloon; device to test opinion; feeler.
bal musette [Fr], small cabaret for dancing.
baloo [Anglo-1nd], a bear; "the sleek brown bear who teaches the wolf
cubs the Law of the Jungle": Kipling. Same as BHALU.
balourdise [Fr], stupidity; gross blunder.
bambino [It; pi. bambini], a child: in sacred art, a representation of
the infant Jesus.
banalité [Fr], a commonplace.
Bancus Communium Placitorum [L], Court of Common Pleas: law.
Bancus Regis [L], King's Bench: law.
Band [Ger; pi. Bände], volume: abbr. Bd., pi. Bde.
banda [Sp], belt; sash; band.
bandar [Hind], monkey; ape.
bandarlog [Hind], the monkey people; monkeys collectively.
Bändchen [Ger], small volume.
Banddeckel [Ger], book cover.