Chapter Bain Marie to Balder of B by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

To strike a balance. To calculate the exact difference, if any, between the debit and credit side of an account.

Balayer Chacun doit balayer devant sa porte (French), "Let everyone correct his own faults." The allusion is to a custom, nearly obsolete in large towns, but common still in London and in villages, for each housewife to sweep and keep clean the pavement before her own dwelling.

Balclutha (The tower of), in Ossian, is Dun-dee, where Dun means a tower. Those circular buildings so common in the Orkney and Shetland Islands, the Hebrides, and all the north of Scotland are duns. Dee is a corruption of Tay, the river on which the city is built; in Latin, Tao-dunum.

Bald Charles le Chauve. Charles I, son of Louis le Débonnaire. (823, 840--877).

Baldachin The daïs or canopy under which, in Roman Catholic processions, the Holy Sacrament is carried (Italian, baldacchino, so-called from Baldacco (Italian for Bagdad), where the cloth was made). Also the canopy above an altar.

Baldassare Chief of the monastery of St. Jacopo di Compostella. (Donizetti's opera La Favorita.)

Balder the god of peace, second son of Odin and Frigga. He was killed by the blind war-god Höder, at the instigation of Loki, but restored to life at the general request of the gods. (Scandinavian mythology.)

N.B. - Sydney Dobell (born 1824) has a poem entitled Balder, published in 1854.

Balder is the sun or daylight which is killed by the blind-god at the instigation of Loki or darkness, but is restored to life the next day.

Balder's abode was Broadblink (vast splendour).