Bac*chan"tic (&?;), a. Bacchanalian.
{ Bac"chic (&?;), Bac"chic*al (&?;) }, a. [L. Bacchicus, Gr. Bakchiko`s.] Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous, with intoxication.
||Bac*chi"us (&?;), n.; pl. Bacchii (&?;). [L. Bacchius pes, Gr. "o Bakchei^os (sc. poy`s foot).] (Pros.) A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short.
Bac"chus (&?;), n. [L., fr. Gr. Ba`kchos.] (Myth.) The god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele.
Bac*cif"er*ous (&?;), a. [L. baccifer; bacca berry + ferre to bear.] Producing berries. " Bacciferous trees." Ray.
Bac"ci*form (&?;), a. [L. bacca berry + -form.] Having the form of a berry.
Bac*civ"o*rous (&?;), a. [L. bacca berry + vorare to devour.] (Zoöl.) Eating, or subsisting on, berries; as, baccivorous birds.
Bace (&?;), n., a., & v. See Base. [Obs.] Spenser.
{Bach"a*rach, Back"a*rack } (&?;), n. A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.
Bach"e*lor (bch"*lr), n. [OF. bacheler young man, F. bachelier (cf. Pr. bacalar, Sp. bachiller, Pg. bacharel, It. baccalare), LL. baccalarius the tenant of a kind of farm called baccalaria, a soldier not old or rich enough to lead his retainers into battle with a banner, a person of an inferior academical degree aspiring to a doctorate. In the latter sense, it was afterward changed to baccalaureus. See Baccalaureate, n.] 1. A man of any age who has not been married.
As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound.
W. Irving.