an ancient town of Baetica on the Anas; now supposed to be Badajoz on the Guadiana.

BADIGA, in the materia medica, the name of a sort of spongy plant, common in the shops in Moscow, and some other northern kingdoms. The use of it is the taking away of livid marks from blows and bruises, which the powder of this plant is said to do in a night's time.