v. t. [ Contracted from abandon. ] 1. To abandon. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Enforced the kingdom to aband. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To banish; to expel. [ Obs. ] Mir. for Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Abandoned p. pr. & vb. n. Abandoning. ] [ OF. abandoner, F. abandonner; a (L. ad) + bandon permission, authority, LL. bandum, bannum, public proclamation, interdiction, bannire to proclaim, summon: of Germanic origin; cf. Goth. bandwjan to show by signs, to designate OHG. ban proclamation. The word meant to proclaim, put under a ban, put under control; hence, as in OE., to compel, subject, or to leave in the control of another, and hence, to give up. See Ban. ] 1. To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That he might . . . abandon them from him. Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

Being all this time abandoned from your bed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

He abandoned himself . . . to his favorite vice. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mar. Law) To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To give up; yield; forego; cede; surrender; resign; abdicate; quit; relinquish; renounce; desert; forsake; leave; retire; withdraw from. -- To Abandon, Desert, Forsake. These words agree in representing a person as giving up or leaving some object, but differ as to the mode of doing it. The distinctive sense of abandon is that of giving up a thing absolutely and finally; as, to abandon one's friends, places, opinions, good or evil habits, a hopeless enterprise, a shipwrecked vessel. Abandon is more widely applicable than forsake or desert. The Latin original of desert appears to have been originally applied to the case of deserters from military service. Hence, the verb, when used of persons in the active voice, has usually or always a bad sense, implying some breach of fidelity, honor, etc., the leaving of something which the person should rightfully stand by and support; as, to desert one's colors, to desert one's post, to desert one's principles or duty. When used in the passive, the sense is not necessarily bad; as, the fields were deserted, a deserted village, deserted halls. Forsake implies the breaking off of previous habit, association, personal connection, or that the thing left had been familiar or frequented; as, to forsake old friends, to forsake the paths of rectitude, the blood forsook his cheeks. It may be used either in a good or in a bad sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. abandon. fr. abandonner. See Abandon, v. ] Abandonment; relinquishment. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. See Abandon. ] A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Forsaken, deserted. “Your abandoned streams.” Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked ; as, an abandoned villain. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Profligate; dissolute; corrupt; vicious; depraved; reprobate; wicked; unprincipled; graceless; vile. -- Abandoned, Profligate, Reprobate. These adjectives agree in expressing the idea of great personal depravity. Profligate has reference to open and shameless immoralities, either in private life or political conduct; as, a profligate court, a profligate ministry. Abandoned is stronger, and has reference to the searing of conscience and hardening of heart produced by a man's giving himself wholly up to iniquity; as, a man of abandoned character. Reprobate describes the condition of one who has become insensible to reproof, and who is morally abandoned and lost beyond hope of recovery. [ 1913 Webster ]

God gave them over to a reprobate mind. Rom. i. 28. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Unrestrainedly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One to whom anything is legally abandoned. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who abandons. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. abandonnement. ] 1. The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. [ 1913 Webster ]

The abandonment of the independence of Europe. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mar. Law) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Com. Law) (a) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc. (b) The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Careless freedom or ease; abandon. [ R. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ LL. See Abandon. ] (Law) Anything forfeited or confiscated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Abnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Name given by the negroes in the island of St. Thomas. ] A West Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ LL. abannatio; ad + LL. bannire to banish. ] (Old Law) Banishment. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. albus white. ] (Chem.) A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta-percha by the action of alcohol or ether. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Albania, a province of Turkey. -- n. A native of Albania. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to amoebae. Same as amoeban. [ Also spelled amoeban. ]
Syn. -- amoebic, amebic, amoeban, amoebous, amebous [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Caused by amoebae; -- of diseases; the more common word is amoebic. Amoebic dysentry is caused by the amoeba Entamoeba histolytica.
Syn. -- amoebic, amebic [ PJC ]

n. 1. a band worn around arm as identification or to indicate mourning. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a band worn around the upper arm. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F., fr. OE. arban, heriban, fr. OHG. hariban, heriban, G. heerbann, the calling together of an army; OHG. heri an army + ban a public call or order. The French have misunderstood their old word, and have changed it into arrière-ban, though arrière has no connection with its proper meaning. See Ban, Abandon. ] A proclamation, as of the French kings, calling not only their immediate feudatories, but the vassals of these feudatories, to take the field for war; also, the body of vassals called or liable to be called to arms, as in ancient France. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 2nd back, n. + band. ] (Saddlery) The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. A kind of fine muslin, made in the East Indies from the fiber of the banana leaf stalks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. bann command, edict; akin to D. ban, Icel. bann, Dan. band, OHG. ban, G. bann, a public proclamation, as of interdiction or excommunication, Gr. fa`nai to say, L. fari to speak, Skr. bhan to speak; cf. F. ban, LL. bannum, of G. origin. √86. Cf. Abandon, Fame. ] 1. A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Feudal & Mil.) A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense). [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription. “Under ban to touch.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A curse or anathema. “Hecate's ban.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ban of the empire (German Hist.), an imperial interdict by which political rights and privileges, as those of a prince, city, or district, were taken away. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Banned p. pr. & vb. n. Banning. ] [ OE. bannen, bannien, to summon, curse, AS. bannan to summon; akin to Dan. bande, forbande, to curse, Sw. banna to revile, bannas to curse. See Ban an edict, and cf. Banish. ] 1. To curse; to invoke evil upon. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To forbid; to interdict. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To curse; to swear. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Serv. ban; cf. Russ. & Pol. pan a master, lord, Per. ban. ] An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F., fr. ban an ordinance. ] Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Banalities [ F. banalité. See Banal. ] Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

The highest things were thus brought down to the banalities of discourse. J. Morley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. banana, name of the fruit. ] (Bot.) A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The banana has a soft, herbaceous stalk, with leaves of great length and breadth. The flowers grow in bunches, covered with a sheath of a green or purple color; the fruit is five or six inches long, and over an inch in diameter; the pulp is soft, and of a luscious taste, and is eaten either raw or cooked. This plant is a native of tropical countries, and furnishes an important article of food. [ 1913 Webster ]

Banana bird (Zool.), a small American bird (Icterus leucopteryx), which feeds on the banana. --
Banana quit (Zool.), a small bird of tropical America, of the genus Certhiola, allied to the creepers. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A solution used as a vehicle in applying bronze pigments. In addition to acetote, benzine, and a little pyroxylin, it contains amyl acetate, which gives it the odor of bananas. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. F. & G. banat. See Ban a warden. ] The territory governed by a ban. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. -cales /plu>. [ Sp., fr. banca, banco, bench. Cf. Bench. ] An ornamental covering, as of carpet or leather, for a bench or form. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ It. See Bank. ] A bank, especially that of Venice. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This term is used in some parts of Europe to indicate bank money, as distinguished from the current money, when this last has become depreciated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. band, bond, Icel. band; akin to G., Sw., & D. band, OHG. bant, Goth. bandi, Skr. bandha a binding, bandh to bind, for bhanda, bhandh, also to E. bend, bind. In sense 7, at least, it is fr. F. bande, from OHG. bant. √90. See Bind, v. t., and cf. Bend, Bond, 1st Bandy. ] 1. A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or confined; a fetter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every one's bands were loosed. Acts xvi. 26. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) (a) A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of color, or of brickwork, etc. (b) In Gothic architecture, the molding, or suite of moldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie. “To join in Hymen's bands.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. pl. Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A narrow strip of cloth or other material on any article of dress, to bind, strengthen, ornament, or complete it. “Band and gusset and seam.” Hood. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A company of persons united in any common design, especially a body of armed men. [ 1913 Webster ]

Troops of horsemen with his bands of foot. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A number of musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc.), and drums, or cymbals; as, a high school's marching band. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. (Bot.) A space between elevated lines or ribs, as of the fruits of umbelliferous plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. (Zool.) A stripe, streak, or other mark transverse to the axis of the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. (Mech.) A belt or strap. [ 1913 Webster ]

12. A bond. [ Obs. ] “Thy oath and band.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

13. Pledge; security. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Band saw, a saw in the form of an endless steel belt, with teeth on one edge, running over wheels. --
big band, a band that is the size of an orchestra, usually playing mostly jazz or swing music. The big band typically features both ensemble and solo playing, sometimes has a lead singer, and is often located in a night club where the patrons may dance to its music. The big bands were popular from the late 1920's to the 1940's. Contrasted with combo, which has fewer players. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Banded; p. pr. & vb. n. Banding. ] 1. To bind or tie with a band. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To mark with a band. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To unite in a troop, company, or confederacy. “Banded against his throne.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Banded architrave,
Banded pier,
Banded shaft, etc. (Arch.), an architrave, pier, shaft, etc., of which the regular profile is interrupted by blocks or projections crossing it at right angles. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To confederate for some common purpose; to unite; to conspire together. [ 1913 Webster ]

Certain of the Jews banded together. Acts xxiii. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bandy; to drive away. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. of Bind. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bandage, fr. bande. See Band. ] 1. A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature. [ 1913 Webster ]

Zeal too had a place among the rest, with a bandage over her eyes. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bandaged p. pr. & vb. n. Bandaging ] To bind, dress, or cover, with a bandage; as, to bandage the eyes. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ from a Trademark. ] 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. [ trademark ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A hurried repair; a temporary fix for a minor problem. The term has been used metaphorically to mean an ineffective cosmetic solution, when used on a serious problem.
Syn. -- quick fix, quickie, quicky. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

‖n. A fabric made in Manila from the older leaf sheaths of the abaca (Musa textilis). [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Hind. bāndhnū a mode of dyeing in which the cloth is tied in different places so as to prevent the parts tied from receiving the dye. Cf. Band, n. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Hence: Any scarf worn on the neck or head, usually of large size. [ PJC ]

3. 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. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Bandeaux /plu>. [ F. ] A narrow band or fillet, as for the hair, part of a headdress, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Around the edge of this cap was a stiff bandeau of leather. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. bandelette, dim. of bande. See Band, n., and cf. Bendlet. ] (Arch.) 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. Gwilt.
Syn. -- annulet, bandelette, bandlet, square and rabbet. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One banded with others. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp., dim. of bandera banner. See Banner, and cf. Banderole. ] A barbed dart carrying a banderole which the banderillero thrusts into the neck or shoulder of the bull in a bullfight. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ Sp. ] One who thrusts in the banderillas in bullfighting. W. D. Howells. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Zool.) A small red fish of the genus Cepola; the ribbon fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A corruption of the native name. ] (Zool.) (a) A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens. (b) A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A strip or stripe of a contrasting color or material.
Syn. -- band, stripe. [ WordNet 1.5 ]