Bandy
(Ban"dy), v. i. To contend, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way.
Fit to bandy with thy lawless sons.
Shak.
Bandy
(Ban"dy), a. Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.
Bandy-legged
(Ban"dy-legged`) a. Having crooked legs.
Bane
(Bane) n. [OE. bane destruction, AS. bana murderer; akin to Icel. bani death, murderer, OHG.
bana murder, bano murderer, Goth. banja stroke, wound, Gr. foney`s murderer, fo`nos murder, OIr.
bath death, benim I strike. &radic31.]
1. That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality. [Obs. except in combination, as in ratsbane,
henbane, etc.]
2. Destruction; death. [Obs.]
The cup of deception spiced and tempered to their bane.
Milton.
3. Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe.
Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe.
Herbert.
4. A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.
Syn. — Poison; ruin; destruction; injury; pest.
Bane
(Bane), v. t. To be the bane of; to ruin. [Obs.] Fuller.
Baneberry
(Bane"ber`ry) n. (Bot.) A genus (Actæa) of plants, of the order Ranunculaceæ, native in the
north temperate zone. The red or white berries are poisonous.
Baneful
(Bane"ful) a. Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious. "Baneful
hemlock." Garth. "Baneful wrath." Chapman.
— Bane"ful*ly, adv. — Bane"ful*ness, n.
Banewort
(Bane"wort) n. (Bot.) Deadly nightshade.
Bang
(Bang) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Banged; p. pr. & vb. n. Banging.] [Icel. banga to hammer; akin to
Dan. banke to beat, Sw. bångas to be impetuous, G. bengel club, clapper of a bell.]
1. To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.
The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks.
Shak.
2. 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
(Bang), v. i. 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
(Bang), n.
