Defn: To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.
BARD Bard, n. Etym: [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.
BARDED
Bard"ed, p.a. Etym: [See Bard horse armor.]
1. Accoutered with defensive armor; — said of a horse.
2. (Her.)
Defn: Wearing rich caparisons.
Fifteen hundred men . . . barded and richly trapped. Stow.
BARDIC
Bard"ic, a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to bards, or their poetry. "The bardic lays of ancient Greece." G. P. Marsh.