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  • noun Plural form of baud.

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Examples

  • So there you have it, a remarkable statement that's just been put out by Mark McGwire admitting to taking steroids, sounding almost defensive about the possibility that he may have broken records and hit so many homeruns bauds he took steroids, and announcing he's going to be now a hitting instructor with the St. Louis Cardinals, the team with which he was playing when he broke those records.

    CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2010 2010

  • I am slow, but within an hour, I was in the primitive version of the internet at the time — I believe 800 bauds or something.

    Will Steve Jobs Set Me Free? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • And yet to see Jingling Geordie, that bauds himself so much the wiser than other folk — to see him, ha! ha! ha! — in the vein of Euclio apud

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

  • The plates, properly so called, are held apart by rubber bauds.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 Various

  • Shrove-Tuesday he fears as much as the bauds, and Lent [43] is more damage to him than the butcher.

    Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

  • Both the vicomte's wrists were imprisoned as securely as though bauds of iron encircled them.

    The Grey Cloak Harold MacGrath 1901

  • Georgiana lay was spread with the most beautiful draperies of white; the pillows were rich with needle-work and lace, and for the first time she had put on the badge of her new dignity, a little white cap of ribbons and lace, the long wide streamers of which, edged with lace, lay out upon the counterpane like bauds of the most delicate frost.

    Aftermath James Lane Allen 1887

  • Now, I say the march rins on the tap o 'the hill where the wind and water shears; but Jock o' Dawston Cleugh again, he contravenes that, and says that it bauds down by the auld drove-road that gaes awa by the

    Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

  • Now, I say the march rins on the tap o 'the hill where the wind and water shears; but Jock o' Dawston Cleugh again, he contravenes that, and says that it bauds down by the auld drove-road that gaes awa by the

    Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • Now, I say the march rins on the tap o 'the hill where the wind and water shears; but Jock o' Dawston Cleugh again, he contravenes that, and says that it bauds down by the auld drove-road that gaes awa by the

    Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801

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