Baccara
(||Bac`ca*ra", Bac`ca*rat") n. [F.] A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters.
Baccare
(Bac*ca"re, Bac*ka"re) interj. Stand back! give place! — a cant word of the Elizabethan writers,
probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess.
Baccare! you are marvelous forward.
Shak.
Baccate
(Bac"cate) a. [L. baccatus, fr. L. bacca berry.] (Bot.) Pulpy throughout, like a berry; — said
of fruits. Gray.
Baccated
(Bac"ca*ted) a.
1. Having many berries.
2. Set or adorned with pearls. [Obs.]
Bacchanal
(Bac"cha*nal) a. [L. Bacchanalis. See Bacchanalia.]
1. Relating to Bacchus or his festival.
2. Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.
Bacchanal
(Bac"cha*nal) n.
1. A devotee of Bacchus; one who indulges in drunken revels; one who is noisy and riotous when intoxicated; a
carouser. "Tipsy bacchanals." Shak.
2. pl. The festival of Bacchus; the bacchanalia.
3. Drunken revelry; an orgy.
4. A song or a dance in honor of Bacchus.
Bacchanalia
(||Bac`cha*na"li*a) n. pl. [L. Bacchanal a place devoted to Bacchus; in the pl. Bacchanalia
a feast of Bacchus, fr. Bacchus the god of wine, Gr. Ba`kchos.]
1. (Myth.) A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.
2. Hence: A drunken feast; drunken revels; an orgy.
Bacchanalian
(Bac`cha*na"li*an) a. Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to
reveling and drunkenness.
Even bacchanalian madness has its charms.
Cowper.
Bacchanalian
(Bac`cha*na"li*an), n. A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
