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in drunken revels; one who is noisy and riotous when intoxicated; a carouser. "Tipsy bacchanals." Shak.

A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.

g to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness. Even bacchanalian madness has its charms. Cowper.

The practice of bacchanalians; bacchanals; drunken revelry.

Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.

or trivial; the commonplace, in speech. The highest things were thus brought down to the banalities of discourse. J. Morley.

A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.

e, benzine, and a little pyroxylin, it contains amyl acetate, which gives it the odor of bananas.

The territory governed by a ban.

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.

See Barbicanage.

Money paid for the support of a barbican. [Obs.]

A division of the Bantus, dwelling between the Orange and Zambezi rivers, supposed to be the most ancient Bantu population of South Africa. They are divided into totemic clans; they are intelligent and progressive.

Animals having two hands; -- a term applied by Cuvier to man as a special order of Mammalia.

A church bell.

A descendant of Canaan, the son of Ham, and grandson of Noah.

Of or pertaining to Canaan or the Canaanites.

A British province in North America, giving its name to various plants and animals. Canada balsam. See under Balsam. -- Canada goose. (Zoöl.) See Whisky Jack. -- Canada lynx. (Zoöl.) See Lynx. -- Canada porcupine (Zoöl.) See Porcupine, and Urson. -- Canada rice (Bot.) See under Rick. -- Canada robin (Zoöl.), the c…

A small cañon; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley. [Local, Western U. S.]

Of or pertaining to Canada. -- n.