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Band fish
() A small red fish of the genus Cepola; the ribbon fish.
Bandicoot
() A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens.
Bandicoot
() 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
() of Bandit
Banditti
() of Bandit
Bandit
() An outlaw; a brigand.
Bandle
() An Irish measure of two feet in length.
Bandlet
() Same as Bandelet.
Bandmaster
() The conductor of a musical band.
Bandog
() A mastiff or other large and fierce dog, usually kept chained or tied up.
Bandoleer
() Alt. of Bandolier
Bandolier
() 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
() One of the leather or wooden cases in which the charges of powder were carried.
Bandoline
() A glutinous pomatum for the fair.
Bandon
() Disposal; control; license.
Bandore
() A musical stringed instrument, similar in form to a guitar; a pandore.
Bandrol
() Same as Banderole.
Bandy
() A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.
Bandies
() of Bandy
Bandy
() A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.
Bandy
() The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.
Bandied
() of Bandy
Bandying
() of Bandy
Bandy
() To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy.
Bandy
() To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.
Bandy
() To toss about, as from man to man; to agitate.
Bandy
() To content, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way.
Bandy
() Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.
Bandy-legged
() Having crooked legs.
Bane
() That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality.
Bane
() Destruction; death.
Bane
() Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe.
Bane
() A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.
Bane
() To be the bane of; to ruin.
Baneberry
() A genus (Actaea) of plants, of the order Ranunculaceae, native in the north temperate zone. The red or white berries are poisonous.
Baneful
() Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious.
Banewort
() Deadly nightshade.
Banged
() of Bang
Banging
() of Bang
Bang
() To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.
Bang
() 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
() 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
() A blow as with a club; a heavy blow.
Bang
() The sound produced by a sudden concussion.
Bang
() To cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair).
Bang
() The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn.
Bang
() Alt. of Bangue
Bangue
() See Bhang.
Banging
() Huge; great in size.
