an itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.-a carnivorous quadruped of the genus meles or of an allied genus.  it is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet.  one species (m.  vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of europe and asia; another species (taxidea americana / labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of north america. see teledu.-a brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists.-to tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.-to beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.