| Badaud | ‖n. [ F. ] A person given to idle observation of everything, with wonder or astonishment; a credulous or gossipy idler. [ 1913 Webster ] A host of stories . . . dealing chiefly with the subject of his great wealth, an ever delightful topic to the badauds of Paris. Pall Mall Mag. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] |
| baud | n. [ Named after J. M. E. Baudot, a French inventor, died 1903. ] (Computers, telecommunications) A unit of transmission speed for information conveyed over a digital communications channel, usually taken as equal to the number of bits of information transmitted per second. The speed in bauds indicates the number of signalling events per second; however, since it is necessary in most cases to transmit control information along with the data, the data signalling rate may be smaller than the baud rate. [ PJC ] |
| Baudekin | n. [ OE. bawdekin rich silk stuff, OF. baudequin. See Baldachin. ] The richest kind of stuff used in garments in the Middle Ages, the web being gold, and the woof silk, with embroidery; -- made originally at Baghdad. [ Spelt also baudkin, baudkyn, bawdekin, and baldakin. ] Nares. [ 1913 Webster ] |
