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7. A company of persons united in any common design, especially a body of armed men.
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Troops of horsemen with his bands of foot. Shak.
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8. A number of musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc.), and drums, or cymbals; as, a high school's marching band.
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9. (Bot.) A space between elevated lines or ribs, as of the fruits of umbelliferous plants.
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10. (Zoöl.) A stripe, streak, or other mark transverse to the axis of the body.
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11. (Mech.) A belt or strap.
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12. A bond. [Obs.] “Thy oath and band.” Shak.
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13. Pledge; security. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Coloq. Band saw , a saw in the form of an endless steel belt, with teeth on one edge, running over wheels. -- Coloq. big band , a band that is the size of an orchestra, usually playing mostly jazz or swing music. The big band typically features both ensemble and solo playing, sometimes has a lead singer, and is often located in a night club where the patrons may dance to its music. The big bands were popular from the late 1920's to the 1940's. Contrasted with , which has fewer players.
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Band (bănd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Banded; p. pr. & vb. n. Banding.] 1. To bind or tie with a band.
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2. To mark with a band.
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3. To unite in a troop, company, or confederacy. “Banded against his throne.” Milton.
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Coloq. Banded architrave , Coloq. Banded pier , Coloq. Banded shaft , etc. (Arch.), an architrave, pier, shaft, etc., of which the regular profile is interrupted by blocks or projections crossing it at right angles.
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Band, v. i. To confederate for some common purpose; to unite; to conspire together.
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Certain of the Jews banded together. Acts xxiii. 12.
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Band, v. t. To bandy; to drive away. [Obs.]
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Band, imp. of . [Obs.] Spenser.
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Bandage (bănd�j), n. [F. bandage, fr. bande. See .] 1. A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc.
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2. Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature.
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Zeal too had a place among the rest, with a bandage over her eyes. Addison.
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Bandage, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bandaged (bănd�jd); p. pr. & vb. n. Bandaging (bănd�jĭng).] To bind, dress, or cover, with a bandage; as, to bandage the eyes.
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Band-Aid, band-aid, Band Aid (băndād) n. [from a Trademark.] An adhesive bandage, composed of a short ribbon of cloth or plastic with an adhesive coating on one side, and having a patch of gauze at the center. It is used to cover small cuts, abrasions, or blisters on the skin, and may be easily applied to and removed from the skin with no additional material. Originally a trademark, the term has been popularly used generically. [trademark]
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2. A hurried repair; a temporary fix for a minor problem. The term has been used metaphorically to mean an ineffective cosmetic solution, when used on a serious problem.
Syn. -- quick fix, quickie, quicky.
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Bandala (�), n. A fabric made in Manila from the older leaf sheaths of the abaca (Musa textilis).
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{ Bandanna, Bandana } (�), n. [Hind. bāndhnū a mode of dyeing in which the cloth is tied in different places so as to prevent the parts tied from receiving the dye. Cf. , n.] 1. A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form; -- it is often used as a neckerchief. The term is also used for any large and brightly colored handkerchief.
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2. Hence: Any scarf worn on the neck or head, usually of large size.
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3. A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots are produced upon cloth previously dyed of a uniform red or dark color, by discharging portions of the color by chemical means, while the rest of the cloth is under pressure. Ure.
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Bandbox (băndbŏks), n. A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets, etc.
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Bandeau (băndō; băndō), n.; pl. Bandeaux (băndōz). [F.] A narrow band or fillet, as for the hair, part of a headdress, etc.
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Around the edge of this cap was a stiff bandeau of leather. Sir W. Scott.
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{ Bandelet (�), Bandlet, bandelette } (�), n. [F. bandelette, dim. of bande. See , n., and cf. .] (Arch.) A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring, and usually at the top of the column; an annulet. Gwilt.
Syn. -- annulet, bandelette, bandlet, square and rabbet.
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Bander (�), n. One banded with others. [R.]
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Banderilla (?), n. [Sp., dim. of bandera banner. See , and cf. .] A barbed dart carrying a banderole which the banderillero thrusts into the neck or shoulder of the bull in a bullfight.
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Banderillero (?), n. [Sp.] One who thrusts in the banderillas in bullfighting. W. D. Howells.
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{ Banderole (�), Bandrol } (�), n. [F. banderole, dim. of bandière, bannière, banner; cf. It. banderuola a little banner. See .] A little banner, flag, or streamer. [Written also bannerol.]
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From the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole or streamer bearing a cross. Sir W. Scott.
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Band fish (�). (Zoöl.) A small red fish of the genus Cepola; the ribbon fish.
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Bandicoot (�), n. [A corruption of the native name.] (Zoöl.) (a) A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens. (b) A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania.
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banding n. A strip or stripe of a contrasting color or material.
Syn. -- band, stripe.
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Banding plane (�). A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work.
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Bandit (băndĭt), n.; pl. Bandits (băndĭts), or Banditti (băndĭttĭ). [It. bandito outlaw, p. p. of bandire to proclaim, to banish, to proscribe, LL. bandire, bannire. See an edict, and cf. .] An outlaw; a brigand.
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No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. Milton.
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☞ The plural banditti was formerly used as a collective noun.
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Deerstealers are ever a desperate banditti. Sir W. Scott.
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Bandle (�), n. [Ir. bannlamh cubit, fr. bann a measure + lamh hand, arm.] An Irish measure of two feet in length.
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bandleader n. The leader of a dance band.
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Bandlet (�), n. Same as .
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Bandmaster (�), n. The conductor of a musical band.
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Bandog (băndŏg; 115), n. [Band + dog, i.e., bound dog.] A mastiff or other large and fierce dog, usually kept chained or tied up.
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The keeper entered leading his bandog, a large bloodhound, tied in a leam, or band, from which he takes his name. Sir W. Scott.
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{ Bandoleer, Bandolier } (�), n. [F. bandoulière (cf. It. bandoliera, Sp. bandolera), fr. F. bande band, Sp. & It. banda. See , n.] 1. A broad leather belt formerly worn by soldiers over the right shoulder and across the breast under the left arm. Originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt.
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2. One of the leather or wooden cases in which the charges of powder were carried. [Obs.]
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Bandoline (�), n. [Perh. allied to band.] A glutinous pomatum for the hair.
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Bandon (�), n. [OF. bandon. See .] Disposal; control; license. [Obs.] Rom. of R.
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Bandore (�), n. [Sp. bandurria, fr. L. pandura, pandurium, a musical instrument of three strings, fr. Gr. pandoy^ra a three-stringed musical instrument. Cf. , , .] A musical stringed instrument, similar in form to a guitar; a pandore. It is now obsolete, but see .
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Bandrol (�), n. Same as .
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bandura (bănd�rȧ), n. [See .] A traditional Ukrainian stringed musical instrument shaped like a lute, having many strings.
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bandwagon n. 1. A popular trend that attracts growing support. “when they saw how things were going everybody jumped on the bandwagon.”
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2. A large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band. “the bandwagon led the circus parade”
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bandwidth n. The maximum rate of information transfer (measured in bits/second) that can be carried by a communication channel. “The bandwidth of an analog telephone line is less than 100 kilobits per second.”
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Bandy (bănd�), n. [Telugu baṇḍi.] A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.
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Bandy, n.; pl. Bandies (-dĭz). [Cf. F. bandé, p. p. of bander to bind, to bend (a bow), to bandy, fr. bande. See , n.] 1. A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick. Johnson.
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2. The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.
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Bandy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bandied (bănd�d); p. pr. & vb. n. Bandying.] 1. To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy.
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Like tennis balls bandied and struck upon us . . . by rackets from without. Cudworth.
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2. To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. “To bandy hasty words.” Shak.
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3. To toss about, as from person to person; to circulate freely in a light manner; -- of ideas, facts, rumors, etc.
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Let not obvious and known truth be bandied about in a disputation. I. Watts.
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Bandy, v. i. To contend, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way.
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Fit to bandy with thy lawless sons. Shak.
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Bandy, a. Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.
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Bandy-legged (�), a. Having crooked legs.
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Bane (bān), n. [OE. bane destruction, AS. bana murderer; akin to Icel. bani death, murderer, OHG. bana murder, bano murderer, Goth. banja stroke, wound, Gr. foneys murderer, fonos murder, OIr. bath death, benim I strike. √31.] 1. That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality. [Obs. except in combination, as in ratsbane, henbane, etc.]
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2. Destruction; death. [Obs.]
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The cup of deception spiced and tempered to their bane. Milton.
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3. Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe.
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Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe. Herbert.
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4. A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.
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Syn. -- Poison; ruin; destruction; injury; pest.
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Bane, v. t. To be the bane of; to ruin. [Obs.] Fuller.
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Baneberry (�), n. (Bot.) A genus (Actæa) of plants, of the order Ranunculaceæ, native in the north temperate zone. The red or white berries are poisonous.
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Baneful (�), a. Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious. “Baneful hemlock.” Garth. “Baneful wrath.” Chapman.
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-- Banefully, adv. --Banefulness, n.
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Banewort (�), n. (Bot.) Deadly nightshade.
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Bang (băng), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Banged; p. pr. & vb. n. Banging.] [Icel. banga to hammer; akin to Dan. banke to beat, Sw. bångas to be impetuous, G. bengel club, clapper of a bell.] 1. To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.
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The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks. Shak.
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2. To beat or thump, or to cause (something) to hit or strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it.
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3. To have sexual intercourse with; to fuck; -- usually used with the male as a subject. Considered vulgar or obscene. [vulgar slang]
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Bang, v. i. 1. To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the piano.
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2. To have sexual intercourse; to fuck. Considered vulgar and obscene. [vulgar slang]
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Bang, n. 1. A blow as with a club; a heavy blow.
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Many a stiff thwack, many a bang. Hudibras.
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2. The loud sound produced by a sudden concussion or explosion.
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3. A surge of pleasure; a thrill; -- usually used in the phrase get a bang out of; as, I always get a bang out of watching an ice skater do a quadruple jump. [informal]
Syn. -- kick{5}.
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4. (Printing & Computers) An exclamation point; -- used in verbal descriptions of text, in printing and in computer technology; as, his email address is tom bang stanford dot edu (i.e. tom!stanford.edu). [slang]
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5. An instance of sexual intercourse; a fuck. Considered vulgar and obscene. [vulgar slang]
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Bang, v. t. To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair).
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His hair banged even with his eyebrows. The Century Mag.
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Bang, n. The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn; -- usually used in the plural; as, her bangs came down almost to her eyes.
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His hair cut in front like a young lady's bang. W. D. Howells.
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{ Bang, Bangue } (�), n. See .
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Banging, a. Huge; great in size. [Colloq.] Forby.
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Bangladesh prop. n. An independent Asian country on teh Bay of Bengal that was once part of India and then part of Pakistan (called East Pakistan).
Syn. -- Bangla Desh, East Pakistan.
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Bangladeshi prop. n. A native or inhabitant of Bangladesh.
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Bangladeshi prop. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Bangladesh. Bangladeshi dialects
Syn. -- East Pakistani.
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Bangle (băṉg'l), v. t. [From 1st .] To waste by little and little; to fritter away. [Obs.]
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Bangle, n. [Hind. bangrī bracelet, bangle.] An ornamental circlet, of glass, gold, silver, or other material, worn mostly by women, upon the wrist or ankle; a ring bracelet. It differs from other bracelets in being rigid and not articulated, in contrast to bracelets made of links.
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Coloq. Bangle ear , a loose hanging ear of a horse, like that of a spaniel.
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bangtail n. 1. a horse bred for racing.
Syn. -- racehorse, race horse.
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Banian (băny�n or bănyăn; 277), n. [Skr. banij merchant. The tree was so named by the English, because used as a market place by the merchants.] 1. A Hindu trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer. [Written also banyan.]
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2. A man's loose gown, like that worn by the Banians.
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3. (Bot.) The Indian fig. See .
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Coloq. Banian days (Naut.), days in which the sailors have no flesh meat served out to them. This use seems to be borrowed from the Banians or Banya race, who eat no flesh.
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Banish (bănĭsh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Banished (bănĭsht); p. pr. & vb. n. Banishing.] [OF. banir, F. bannir, LL. bannire, fr. OHG. bannan to summon, fr. ban ban. See an edict, and , v. t.] 1. To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power. “We banish you our territories.” Shak.
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2. To drive out, as from a home or familiar place; -- used with from and out of.
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How the ancient Celtic tongue came to be banished from the Low Countries in Scotland. Blair.
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3. To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel. “Banish all offense.” Shak.
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Syn. -- To , , . The idea of a coercive removal from a place is common to these terms. A man is banished when he is forced by the government of a country (be he a foreigner or a native) to leave its borders. A man is exiled when he is driven into banishment from his native country and home. Thus to exile is to banish, but to banish is not always to exile. To expel is to eject or banish summarily or authoritatively, and usually under circumstances of disgrace; as, to expel from a college; expelled from decent society.
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Banisher (�), n. One who banishes.
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Banishment (�), n. [Cf. F. bannissement.] The act of banishing, or the state of being banished.
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He secured himself by the banishment of his enemies. Johnson.
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Round the wide world in banishment we roam. Dryden.
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Syn. -- Expatriation; ostracism; expulsion; proscription; exile; outlawry.
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Banister (�), n. [A corruption of baluster.] 1. A baluster.
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2. (sing. or pl.) The balustrade of a staircase. Formerly used in this sense mostly in the plural, now mostly in the singular. [Also spelled bannister.]
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He struggled to ascend the pulpit stairs, holding hard on the banisters. Sir W. Scott.

banjo n. [Formerly also banjore and banjer; corrupted from bandore, through negro slave pronunciation.] A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and a circular body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands.
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Bank (băṉk), n. [OE. banke; akin to E. bench, and prob. of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. bakki. See .] 1. A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow.
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They cast up a bank against the city. 2 Sam. xx. 15.
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2. A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.
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3. The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.
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Tiber trembled underneath her banks. Shak.
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4. An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland.
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5. (Mining) (a) The face of the coal at which miners are working. (b) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level. (c) The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank.
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6. (Aëronautics) The lateral inclination of an aëroplane as it rounds a curve; as, a bank of 45° is easy; a bank of 90° is dangerous.
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7. A group or series of objects arranged near together; as, a bank of electric lamps, etc.
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8. The tilt of a roadway or railroad, at a curve in the road, designed to counteract centrifugal forces acting on vehicles moving rapiudly around the curve, thus reducing the danger of overturning during a turn.
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Coloq. Bank beaver (Zoöl.), the otter. [Local, U.S.] -- Coloq. Bank swallow , a small American and European swallow (Clivicola riparia) that nests in a hole which it excavates in a bank.
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Bank, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Banked(băṉkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Banking.] 1. To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank. “Banked well with earth.” Holland.
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2. To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.
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3. To pass by the banks of. [Obs.] Shak.
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4. (Engineering) To build (a roadway or railroad) with an inclination at a curve in the road, so as to counteract centrifugal forces acting on vehicles moving rapiudly around the curve, thus reducing the danger of vehicles overturning at a curve; as, the raceway was steeply banked at the curves.
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Coloq. To bank a fire , Coloq. To bank up a fire , to cover the coals or embers with ashes or cinders, thus keeping the fire low but alive.
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Bank, n. [Prob. fr. F. banc. Of German origin, and akin to E. bench. See .] 1. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
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Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojan sweep
Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep. Waller.
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2. (Law) (a) The bench or seat upon which the judges sit. (b) The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See . Burrill.
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3. (Printing) A sort of table used by printers.
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4. (Music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ. Knight.
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Bank, n. [F. banque, It. banca, orig. bench, table, counter, of German origin, and akin to E. bench; cf. G. bank bench, OHG. banch. See , and cf. , .] 1. An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.
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2. The building or office used for banking purposes.
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3. A fund to be used in transacting business, especially a joint stock or capital.
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Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money. Bacon.
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4. (Gaming) The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.
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5. In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw; in Monopoly, the fund of money used to pay bonuses due to the players, or to which they pay fines.
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6. a place where something is stored and held available for future use; specifically, an organization that stores biological products for medical needs; as, a blood bank, an organ bank, a sperm bank.
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Coloq. Bank credit , a credit by which a person who has given the required security to a bank has liberty to draw to a certain extent agreed upon. -- Coloq. Bank of deposit , a bank which receives money for safe keeping. -- Coloq. Bank of issue , a bank which issues its own notes payable to bearer.
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Bank, v. t. To deposit in a bank. Johnson.
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Bank, v. i. 1. To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.
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