Crossword-Solution: BAV 3 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Had I not contrived to pass off a poggado bav engro—a broken-winded horse—at a fair, I at this moment should be without a tringoruschee piece in my pocket.

Benjamin Fabre in his _Eques a Capite Galeato_--of which, as has already been pointed out, the authenticity is admitted by eminent British Freemasons--a letter is reproduced from Pyron, representative in Paris of the Grand Orient of Italy, to the Marquis de Chefdebien, dated September 9, 1808, in which it is stated that "a member of the sect of Bav." has asked for information on a certain point of ritual.

Ketland & Co." On the barrel: "London", a Belgian proof-mark, and a half-obliterated engraved mark; "Cur---- & Bav----, Market St., Philadelphia." This pistol was made in England, shipped to Belgium and then imported to America, possibly during the War of 1812, when direct commerce with England was cut off.

Bav., Nuremberg), and the old light blue uniforms and other distinctive peculiarities of detail are still maintained.

The epigramme: “Bav is the true shepherd of whom the Bible spake: Though his flock be all asleep, he alone remains awake:” subsumes, under the conception of a sleeping flock and a waking shepherd, the tedious preacher who still bellows on unheard when he has sent all the people to sleep.