(n.) The most beautiful and beloved of the gods; the god of peace; the son of Odin and Freya.
Example Sentences:
(1) Finally, the Janssen portrait had, it was shown during conservation work in 1988, been painted over to make the sitter look balder, and more "Shakespearean".
(2) The Samaritans urges us to avoid some terms, such as the old-fashioned "commit suicide", as if it were a deliberate, thought-out act, or "successful suicide", as if this were a positive event, and instead use the balder "death by suicide" or "take one's own life".
(3) Then, in 2007, he returned with his old friend Paul Whitehouse in a sketch show with new characters – balder, greyer and thinner than we remembered him.
(4) The balder facts of the story were that the parliaments in Edinburgh and London had paid Anthony d'Offay £26m, the cost price of work he had mostly acquired in the last five years, and waived his £14m tax bill.
Bander
Definition:
(n.) One banded with others.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similarly, information on the onset of the disease and exposures in the Forster's tern and double-crested cormorants in Green Bay is uncertain but bird banders did not observe deformities until the 1970s, which corresponds with the onset of high levels of PCB.