Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BAND'ER, n.

One that bands or associates with others.

BAND'ER-ET, n. [from band.]

In Swisserland, a general in chief of military forces.

BAND'IED, pp.

Beat or tossed to and fro; agitated; controverted without ceremony.

BAND'ING, ppr.

Binding with a band; uniting in a band or company.

BAN'DIT, n. [plur. BAN'DITS or BAN-DIT'TI. It. bandito, from bandire, to proclaim, to banish or proscribe by proclamation. Bandito is the participle. Sp. bandido. See Ban.]

An outlaw; also, in a general sense, a robber; a highway man; a lawless or desperate fellow.

BAN'DLE, n.

An Irish measure of two feet in length. Bailey.

BAND'LET, or BAND'E-LET, n. [Fr. bandelette.]

Any little band or flat molding, as that which crowns the Doric architrave. Encyc.

BAN'DOG, n.

A large species of dog. Shak. Spenser.

BAN-DO-LEERS, n. [Sp. bandolera; It. bandoliera; Fr. bandouliere; band and D. leer, leather.]

A large leathern belt, thrown over the right shoulder, and hanging under the left arm; worn by ancient musketeers for sustaining their fire arms, and their musket charges which being put into little wooden cases, and coated with leather, were hung, to the number of twelve, to each bandoleer. Encyc.

BAN'DON, n.

Disposal; license. [Not in use.] Chaucer.

BAN'DORE, n. [Sp. bandurria; Gr. πανδουρα.]

A musical stringed instrument, like a lute. Encyc.

BAND'ROL, n. [Fr. banderole; It. banderuola; Sp. banderolas; literally, a little banner. See Banner.]

1. A little flag or streamer, in form of a guidon, used to be hung on the masts of vessels. Encyc.
2. The little fringed silk flag that hangs on a trumpet. Johnson.

BAND'STRING, n.

A string appendant to a band. Taylor.

BAND'Y, n. [Fr. bander, to tie, bind, bend, bandy; L. pando.]

A club for striking a ball at play. Johnson.

BAND'Y, v.i.

To contend, as at some game, in which each strives to drive the ball his own way. Shak.

BAND'Y, v.t.

1. To beat to and fro, as a ball in play.
2. To exchange; to give and receive reciprocally; as, to bandy looks. Shak.
3. To agitate; to toss about, as from man to man. Let not known truth be bandied in disputation. Watts.

BAND'Y-ING, ppr.

Beating; impelling or tossing from one to another; agitating in controversy without ceremony.

BAND'Y-LEG, n. [bandy and leg. See Bend.]

A crooked leg; a leg bending inward or outward. Encyc.

BAND'Y-LEG-GED, a.

Having crooked legs.

BANE, n. [Qu. the affinities. In Sax. bana, is a murderer; in Gr. φενω, is to kill; in L. venenum is poison; Fr. venin; Arm. benym or vinym.]

Poison of a deadly quality; hence, any fatal cause of mischief, injury or destruction; as, vice is the bane of society.

BANE, v.t.

To poison. Shak.

BANE'-BER-RY, n.

A name of the herb Christopher or Actæa.

BANE'FUL, a.

Poisonous; pernicious; destructive.

BANE'FUL-LY, adv.

Perniciously; destructively.

BANE'FUL-NESS, n.

Poisonousness; destructiveness.