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), the American coniferous tree, Abies balsamea, from which the useful Canada balsam is derived. -- Balsam of copaiba. See Copaiba. -- Balsam of Mecca, balm of Gilead. -- Balsam of Peru, a reddish brown, syrupy balsam, obtained from a Central American tree ( Myroxylon Pereiræ and used as a stomachic and expectorant,…

To bandy; to drive away. [Obs.]

To content, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way. Fit to bandy with thy lawless sons. Shak.

To drive out, as from a home or familiar place; -- used with from and out of. How the ancient Celtic tongue came to be banished from the Low Countries in Scotland. Blair.

The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow. Tiber trembled underneath her banks. Shak.

A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.

A large fresh-water fish ( Barbus vulgaris) found in many European rivers. Its upper jaw is furnished with four barbels.

A four-wheeled carriage, with a falling top, a seat on the outside for the driver, and two double seats on the inside arranged so that the sitters on the front seat face those on the back seat.

An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile.

An Australian river fish (Osteoglossum Leichhardtii).

A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice. Make me not sighted like the basilisk. Shak.

f the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river.

Inclosed in a basin. "Basined rivers." Young.

To deprive of. [Obs.] When baseness is exalted, do not bate The place its honor for the person's sake. Herbert.

A boat; esp. a flat-bottomed, clumsy boat used on the Canadian lakes and rivers. [Written also, but less properly, batteau.] Bateau bridge, a floating bridge supported by bateaux.

o wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath. Chancing to bathe himself in the River Cydnus. South.

Act of taking a bath or baths. Bathing machine, a small room on wheels, to be driven into the water, for the convenience of bathers, who undress and dress therein.

An elevated river bed or sea bed.

To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay; as, to bay the bear. Shak.

To compel or drive by the bayonet. To bayonet us into submission. Burke.