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Badger Dog

a long-bodied, shortlegged dog, with rather large pendulous ears, usually short-haired, black, and with yellow extremities; often called by its German name, dachshund.

BADGHIS (bäd'gis), a region N. of Herat, Afghanistan, comprising the country between the Murghab and the Harirud rivers, as far N. as the edge of the desert. It lies just to the S. of the boundary line between Afghanistan and the Russian territories, as defined in 1887.

BADINGUET (bad-an-gā), the name of the person in whose garments Napoleon II. escaped from the fortress of Ham in 1846; afterward a nickname for Napoleon III.

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