Bandana (n.) 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.
Bandana (n.) 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.
Bandbox (n.) A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets, etc.
Bandeaux (pl. ) of Bandeau
Bandeau (n.) A narrow band or fillet; a part of a head-dress.
Bandelet (n.) Alt. of Bandlet
Bandlet (n.) A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring.
Bander (n.) One banded with others.
Banderole (n.) Alt. of Bandrol
Bandrol (n.) A little banner, flag, or streamer.
Band fish () A small red fish of the genus Cepola; the ribbon fish.
Bandicoot (n.) A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens.
Bandicoot (n.) A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania.
Banding plane () A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work.
Bandits (pl. ) of Bandit
Banditti (pl. ) of Bandit
Bandit (n.) An outlaw; a brigand.
Bandle (n.) An Irish measure of two feet in length.
Bandlet (n.) Same as Bandelet.
Bandmaster (n.) The conductor of a musical band.
Bandog (n.) A mastiff or other large and fierce dog, usually kept chained or tied up.
Bandoleer (n.) Alt. of Bandolier
Bandolier (n.) 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.
Bandolier (n.) One of the leather or wooden cases in which the charges of powder were carried.
Bandoline (n.) A glutinous pomatum for the fair.
Bandon (n.) Disposal; control; license.
Bandore (n.) A musical stringed instrument, similar in form to a guitar; a pandore.
Bandrol (n.) Same as Banderole.
Bandy (n.) A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.
Bandies (pl. ) of Bandy
Bandy (n.) A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.
Bandy (n.) The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.
Bandied (imp. & p. p.) of Bandy
Bandying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bandy
Bandy (v. t.) To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy.
Bandy (v. t.) To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.
Bandy (v. t.) To toss about, as from man to man; to agitate.
Bandy (v. i.) To content, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way.
Bandy (a.) Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.
Bandy-legged (a.) Having crooked legs.
Bane (n.) That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality.
Bane (n.) Destruction; death.
Bane (n.) Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe.
Bane (n.) A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.
Bane (v. t.) To be the bane of; to ruin.
Baneberry (n.) A genus (Actaea) of plants, of the order Ranunculaceae, native in the north temperate zone. The red or white berries are poisonous.
Baneful (a.) Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious.
Banewort (n.) Deadly nightshade.
Banged (imp. & p. p.) of Bang
Banging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bang
Bang (v. t.) To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.
Bang (v. t.) 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.
Bang (v. i.) 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.
Bang (n.) A blow as with a club; a heavy blow.
Bang (n.) The sound produced by a sudden concussion.
Bang (v. t.) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair).
Bang (n.) The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn.
Bang (n.) Alt. of Bangue
Bangue (n.) See Bhang.
Banging (a.) Huge; great in size.
Bangle (v. t.) To waste by little and little; to fritter away.
Bangle (n.) An ornamental circlet, of glass, gold, silver, or other material, worn by women in India and Africa, and in some other countries, upon the wrist or ankle; a ring bracelet.
Banian (n.) A Hindoo trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer.
Banian (n.) A man's loose gown, like that worn by the Banians.
Banian (n.) The Indian fig. See Banyan.
Banished (imp. & p. p.) of Banish
Banishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Banish
Banish (v. t.) To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power.
Banish (v. t.) To drive out, as from a home or familiar place; -- used with from and out of.
Banish (v. t.) To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel.
Banisher (n.) One who banishes.
Banishment (n.) The act of banishing, or the state of being banished.
Banister (n.) A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands.
Bank (n.) 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.
Bank (n.) A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.
Bank (n.) The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.
Bank (n.) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland.
Bank (n.) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
Bank (n.) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
Bank (n.) The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank.
Banked (imp. & p. p.) of Bank
Banking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bank
Bank (v. t.) To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
Bank (v. t.) To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.
Bank (v. t.) To pass by the banks of.
Bank (n.) A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
Bank (n.) The bench or seat upon which the judges sit.
Bank (n.) 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 Banc.
Bank (n.) A sort of table used by printers.
Bank (n.) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
Bank (n.) 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.
Bank (n.) The building or office used for banking purposes.
Bank (n.) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
Bank (n.) 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.
Bank (n.) In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
Bank (v. t.) To deposit in a bank.
Bank (v. i.) To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.
Bank (v. i.) To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker.
Bankable (a.) Receivable at a bank.
Bank bill () In America (and formerly in England), a promissory note of a bank payable to the bearer on demand, and used as currency; a bank note.