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Leopard's bane.
A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field of battle.
A bank or mole to defend against the sea.
BAN
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Banter
imp. & p. p.
of Banter
n.
The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good-humored raillery; pleasantry.
n.
A method of reducing corpulence by avoiding food containing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; -- so called from William Banting of London.
n.
The wild ox of Java (Bibos Banteng).
adv.
With great violence; with a slamming or banging noise.
n.
One who banters or rallies.
n.
A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.
pl.
of Char-a-bancs
v. t.
To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity.
pl.
of Knight banneret
n.
Alt. of Banshie
n.
One who banquets; one who feasts or makes feasts.
v. t.
To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
v. t.
To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.
n.
A variety of small barnyard fowl, with feathered legs, probably brought from Bantam, a district of Java.
a.
Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart.
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