Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech.

A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.

The territory governed by a ban.

An ornamental covering, as of carpet or leather, for a bench or form.

A bank, especially that of Venice.

imp. of Bind.

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.

To bind, dress, or cover, with a bandage; as, to bandage the eyes.

A fabric made in Manila from the older leaf sheaths of the abaca (Musa textilis).

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.

A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets, etc.

A narrow band or fillet, as for the hair, part of a headdress, etc.

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.

One banded with others.

A barbed dart carrying a banderole which the banderillero thrusts into the neck or shoulder of the bull in a bullfight.

One who thrusts in the banderillas in bullfighting.

A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens. A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania.

A strip or stripe of a contrasting color or material.

An outlaw; a brigand.

An Irish measure of two feet in length.

The leader of a dance band.

Same as Bandelet.

The conductor of a musical band.

A mastiff or other large and fierce dog, usually kept chained or tied up.

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.

A glutinous pomatum for the hair.

Disposal; control; license.

A musical stringed instrument, similar in form to a guitar; a pandore. It is now obsolete, but see bandura.

Same as Banderole.

A little banner, flag, or streamer.

A traditional Ukrainian stringed musical instrument shaped like a lute, having many strings.

A popular trend that attracts growing support.

The maximum rate of information transfer (measured in bits/second) that can be carried by a communication channel.

Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.

Having crooked legs.

To be the bane of; to ruin.

A genus (Act/a) of plants, of the order Ranunculace/, native in the north temperate zone. The red or white berries are poisonous.

Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious.

Deadly nightshade.

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.

Huge; great in size.

The capital city of Thailand. Population (2000) = 5,882,000.

An independent Asian country on teh Bay of Bengal that was once part of India and then part of Pakistan (called East Pakistan).

Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Bangladesh.

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.

a horse bred for racing.

See Bhang.

The capital city of Central African Republic. Population (2000) = 706,000.

A Hindu trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer.

To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power.

One who banishes.

The act of banishing, or the state of being banished.

A baluster.

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.

The capital city of Gambia. Population (2000) = 44,188,.

To tilt sidewise in rounding a curve; -- said of a flying machine, an a/rocurve, or the like.

A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.

Depend on; be confident of.

See under 1st Bank, n.

Having sides inclining inwards, as a ship; -- opposed to wall-sided.

One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.

A female banker.

a genus consisting of giant shipworms.

The business of a bank or of a banker.

To pay the costs of; as, Who will bankroll the restoration of the former East German economy?.

To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.

The state of being actually or legally bankrupt.

The slope of a bank, especially of the bank of a stream.

The territory without the walls, but within the legal limits, of a town or city.

A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle.

Furnished with, or bearing, banners.

A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.

an order that bans something.

same as banister.

The act of expulsion.

A kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; -- used in Scotland and the northern counties of England.

A battle in which the Scots under Robert the Bruce defeated the English and assured the independence of Scotland.

Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in a church, or other place prescribed by law, in order that any person may object, if he knows of just cause why the marriage should not take place.

To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast.

Eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment).

A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.

One who banquets; one who feasts or makes feasts.

A supernatural being supposed to warn a family of the approaching death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice, as under the windows of the house.

A small fish, the three-spined stickleback.

A variety of small barnyard fowl, with feathered legs, probably brought from Bantam, a district of Java.

The wild ox of Java (Bibos Banteng).

The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good-humored raillery; pleasantry.

One who banters or rallies.

A method of reducing corpulence by avoiding food containing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; -- so called from William Banting of London.

A young or small child; an infant.

Of or pertaining to the Bantu language group Bantu (definition 2); as, Bantu languages.

An East Indian insectivorous mammal of the genus Tupaia.

A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.

Lit., May you live ten thousand years; -- used in salutation of the emperor and as a battle cry.

A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia.

An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites.

same as baptize.

A genus of North American plants with showy pealike flowers and an inflated pod.

The act of baptizing; the application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is performed by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring.

Pertaining to baptism; as, baptismal vows.

In a baptismal manner.

Of or for baptism; baptismal.

Baptistic.

In early times, a separate building, usually polygonal, used for baptismal services. Small churches were often changed into baptisteries when larger churches were built near. A part of a church containing a font and used for baptismal services.

Capable of being baptized; fit to be baptized.

Baptism.

To administer the sacrament of baptism to.

The act of baptizing.

One who baptizes.

To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.

An international, interdenominational organization of Bible classes of young men; -- so named in allusion to the Hebrew word Berachah (Meaning blessing) occurring in 2 Chron. xx. 26 and 1 Chron. xii.

The pressure of one dyne per square centimeter; -- used as a unit of pressure.

the inability to estimate the weight of an object.

The terrestrial Siberian squirrel (Eutamius sibiricus).

A soft fabric with a kind of basket weave and a diapered pattern.

Armor for a horse. Same as 2d Bard, n., 1.

See Barbican.

A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong, having a ditch and drawbridge of its own.

See Barbicanage.

Money paid for the support of a barbican.