Badger

·noun A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists.

II. Badger ·vt To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.

III. Badger ·vt To beat down; to Cheapen; to Barter; to Bargain.

IV. Badger ·noun An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster;

— formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.

V. Badger ·noun A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or of an allied genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet. One species (M. vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana / Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. ·see Teledu.