Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages). Noah Webster

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СКАЧАТЬ F. banneret; properly a dim. of OF. baniere. See Banner.] 1. Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; Ð commonly used as a title of rank. 2. A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank. µ The usual mode of conferring the rank on the field of battle was by cutting or tearing off the point of the pennon or pointed flag on the spear of the candidate, thereby making it a banner. 3. A civil officer in some Swiss cantons. 4. A small banner. Shak. Ban¶nerÏol (?), n. A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole. BanÏni¶tion (?), n. [LL. bannitio. See Banish.] The act of expulsion.[Obs.] Abp. Laud. Ban¶nock (?), n. [Gael. bonnach.] A kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; Ð used in Scotland and the northern counties of England. Jamieson. Bannock fluke, the turbot. [Scot.] Banns (?), n. pl. [See Ban.] Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in a church, or other place prescribed by law, in order that any person may object, if he knows of just cause why the marriage should not take place. Ban¶quet (?), n. [F., a feast, prop. a dim. of banc bench; cf. It. banchetto, dim. of banco a bench, counter. See Bank a bench, and cf. Banquette.] 1. A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches. 2. A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat or sweetmeats. [Obs.] We'll dine in the great room, but let the music And banquet be prepared here. Massinger. Ban¶quet,v.t. [imp. & p.p. Banqueted; p. pr. & vb.n. Banqueting.] To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast. Just in time to banquet The illustrious company assembled there. Coleridge.

      Ban¶quet, v.i. 1. To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast.

       Were it a draught for Juno when she banquets,

       I would not taste thy treasonous offer.

       Milton.

       2. To partake of a dessert after a feast. [Obs.]

       Where they did both sup and banquet.

       Cavendish.

       Ban¶quetÏter (?), n. One who banquets; one who feasts or makes feasts.

       BanÏquette¶ (?), n. [F. See Banquet, n.] 1. (Fort.) A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.

       2. (Arch.) A narrow window seat; a raised shelf at the back or the top of a buffet or dresser.

       Ban¶shee, Ban¶shie (?), n. [ Gael. beanÐshith fairy; Gael. & Ir. bean woman + Gael. sith fairy.] A supernatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house.

       Ban¶stic·kle (?), n. [OE. ban, bon, bone + stickle prickle, sting. See Bone, n., Stickleback.] (Zo”l.) A small fish, the threeÐspined stickleback.

       Ban¶tam (?), n. A variety of small barnyard fowl, with feathered legs, probably brought from Bantam, a district of Java.

       Ban¶tam work·. Carved and painted work in imitation of Japan ware.

       ØBan¶teng (?), n. (Zo”l.) The wild ox of Java (Bibos Banteng).

       Ban¶ter (?), v.t. [ imp. & p.p. Bantered(?); p. pr. & vb.n. Bantering.] [Prob. corrupted fr. F. badiner to joke, or perh. fr. E. bandy to beat to and fro. See Badinage, and cf. Barter fr. OF. barater.]

       1. To address playful goodÐnatured ridicule to, Ð the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity.

       HagÐridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered on

       my haggard looks the next day.

       W. Irving.

       2. To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like. [Archaic]

       If they banter your regularity, order, and love of study, banter in return their neglect of them.

       Chatham.

       3. To delude or trick, Ð esp. by way of jest. [Obs.]

       We diverted ourselves with bantering several poor scholars

       with hopes of being at least his lordship's chaplain.

       De Foe.

       4. To challenge or defy to a match. [Colloq. Southern and Western U.S.]

       Ban¶ter, n. The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or goodÐhumored raillery; pleasantry.

       Part banter, part affection.

       Tennyson.

       Ban¶terÏer (?), n. One who banters or rallies.

       Ban¶tingÏism (?), n. A method of reducing corpulence by avoiding food containing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; Ð so called from William Banting of London.

       Bant¶ling (?), n. [Prob. for bandling, from band, and meaning a child wrapped in swaddling bands; or cf. G. b„ntling a bastard, fr. bank bench. Cf. Bastard, n.] A young or small child; an infant. [Slightly contemptuous or depreciatory.]

       In what out of the way corners genius produces her bantlings.

       W. Irving.

       Banx¶ring (?), n.(Zo”l.) An East Indian insectivorous mammal of the genus Tupaia.

       Ban¶yan (?), n. [See Banian.] (Bot.) A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig ( Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.

       Ba¶oÏbab (?), n. [The native name.] (Bot.) A gigantic African tree ( Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia.

       Baph¶oÏmet (?), n.[ A corruption of Mahomet or Mohammed, the Arabian prophet: cf. Pr. Bafomet, OSp. Mafomat, OPg. Mafameda.] An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites.

       Bap¶tism (?), n. [OE. baptim, baptem, OE. baptesme, batisme, F. baptˆme, L. baptisma, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to baptize, fr. ? to dip in water, akin to ? deep, Skr. g¾h to dip, bathe, v.i.] The act of baptizing; the application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is performed by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring.

       BapÏtis¶mal (?), a. [Cf. F. baptismal.] Pertaining to baptism; as, baptismal vows.

       Baptismal name, the Christian name, which is given at baptism.

       BapÏtis¶malÏly, adv. In a baptismal manner.

       Bap¶tist (?), n. [L. baptista, G. ?]

       1. One who administers baptism; Ð specifically applied to John, the forerunner of Christ.

       Milton.

       2. One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist.

       ? In doctrine the Baptists of this country [the United States] СКАЧАТЬ