BADINAGE Ba`di`nage", n. Etym: [F., fr. badiner to joke, OF. to trifle, be silly, fr. badin silly.]
Defn: Playful raillery; banter. "He . . . indulged himself only in an elegant badinage." Warburton.
BAD LANDS
Bad" lands".
Defn: Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by canons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands).
BADLY
Bad"ly, adv.
Defn: In a bad manner; poorly; not well; unskillfully; imperfectly; unfortunately; grievously; so as to cause harm; disagreeably; seriously.
Note: Badly is often used colloquially for very much or very greatly, with words signifying to want or need.
BADMINTON
Bad"min*ton, n. Etym: [From the name of the seat of the Duke of
Beaufort in England.]
1. A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks.
2. A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened.