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▪ I. bayard, a. and n.1 arch.|ˈbeɪəd|
Forms: 4–7 bayard, 5 beyard, 5–7 bayarde, 6 bayart, baierd, baiarde, 6–7 baiard, bayerd.
[a. OF. baiard, -art, bayard bay-coloured, f. bai: see bay a.1 and -ard.]
1. Bay coloured; absol. a bay horse.
1330R. Brunne Chron. 272 Sir Edward..Opon his stede bayard first he wan þe dike. 1464Mann. & Househ. Exp. 184, I bowete of Roberd Bernard the Konstabelschepe of Bramborou, and he ad of me ther fore my bayard Kreseuer. 1623Minsheu Sp. Gram. 6, Bays, which is vsed in good authors for Bay coloured or Bayard. 1868D. Evans 4 Bks. Wales I. 520 Saddle thou the bayard with the long bound.
2. Proper name of the bright-bay-coloured magic steed given by Charlemagne to Renaud (or Rinaldo), one of the four sons of Aimon, famous in mediæval romance; whence
a. Formerly used as a kind of mock-heroic allusive name for any horse; cf. the occasional use of Rosinante, Bucephalus, Pegasus.
c1374Chaucer Troylus i. 218 As proud Bayard gynnyth for to skippe Out of the wey. c1400Beryn 3184 A man to seruesabill Ledith offt beyard from his own stabill. c1489Caxton Four Sonnes Aymon i. (1884) 31 Thenne mounted Reynawde on horsebacke vpon Bayarde. 1575Churchyard Chippes (1817) 147 But he that holdes..the horses rain, When steede bolts out, calles bayard back again.
b. bayard's bun: a kind of bread given to horses. bayard of ten toes: the human feet, ‘shanks' mare, nag, or pony’; also called horse of ten toes.
c1520Skelton Agst. Comely Coystrowne 8 A swete sugar loaf and sowre bayardys bun. 1616Breton Good & Badde 35 The walke of the wofull and his Horse, Bayard of ten-toes.
c. Alluded to in many phrases and proverbial sayings, the origin of which was in later times forgotten, and ‘Bayard’ as the type of blindness or blind recklessness.
c1325E.E. Allit. P. B. 886 Þay blustered as blynde as bayard watz euer. 1393Gower Conf. III. 44 But as Bayard the blinde stede..He goth there no man will him bidde. 1401Pol. Poems (1859) II. 53 Thou, as blynde Bayarde, berkest at the mone. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 500/1 Bee bolde vpon it lyke blynde bayarde. 1609Breton Poste w. Packet, Who is so blind as Bold Bayarde. 1625Gonsalvio's Sp. Inquis. 168 As blind & yet as bold as Bayard. c1630Jackson Creed iv. iv. Wks. III. 33 As..boldly as blind bayard rusheth into the battle. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 157 Bayard must ever be as bold as blind.
3. Hence: One blind to the light of knowledge, who has the self-confidence of ignorance.
a1529Skelton Agst. Garnesche Wks. I. 123 Bolde bayarde, ye are to blynde. 1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 65/2 Them that shall walke negligently, and like blinde bayardes. 1645Milton Colast. Wks. (1851) 368 Being a bayard, who never had the soul to know, what conversing means. a1677Barrow Serm. (1686) III. 487 The bold and blind Bayards (who usually out of self-conceit are so exceedingly confident of their election and salvation).
▪ II. † ˈbayard, n.2 Obs.
[a. F. bayard, baiart, in same sense: cf. baiardour.]
A kind of hand-barrow used for heavy loads; also fig.
1642Rogers Naaman 30 When they are laid upon his bayard, and when he hath them upon the hip. Ibid. 35 Surely he is faine to lay men upon the bayard. |