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Exiled voluntarily.

A leguminous shrub (Sesbania aculeata) which furnishes a fiber used for making ropes.

A harbor master, or ruler of a port, in the East Indies. [Written also shebunder.]

A jocosely depreciative name for a dwelling or shop. [Slang,U.S.]

With great violence; with a slamming or banging noise. [Colloq.]

A bannerlike stream of snow blown into the air from a mountain peak, often having a pinkish color and extending horizontally for several miles across the sky.

The red goosefoot (Chenopodium rubrum), -- said to be fatal to swine.

Slightly angular.

Of or pertaining to suburbs; inhabiting, or being in, the suburbs of a city. "Suburban taverns." Longfellow. Suburban villas, highway-side retreats, . . . Delight the citizen. Cowper.

A genus of blood sucking flies, including the horseflies.

Of or pertaining to Thebes. Theban year (Anc. Chron.), the Egyptian year of 365 days and 6 hours. J. Bryant.

Same as Throatlatch.

A band or company of an organized military force instituted by James I. and dissolved by Charles II.; -- afterwards applied to the London militia. [Eng.] He felt that, without some better protection than that of the trainbands and Beefeaters, his palace and person would hardly be secure. Macaulay. A trainband captain e…

A headdress worn by men in the Levant and by most Mohammedans of the male sex, consisting of a cap, and a sash, scarf, or shawl, usually of cotton or linen, wound about the cap, and sometimes hanging down the neck.

in when deprived of its spines; -- popularly so called from a fancied resemblance to a turban.

A kind of fungus with an irregularly wrinkled, somewhat globular pileus (Helvella, or Gyromitra, esculenta.).

A turban. Balfour (Cyc. of Ind.).

Wearing a turban. " A malignant and a turbaned Turk." Shak.

A turban. [Obs.] Milton. I see the Turk nodding with his turbant. Howell.

A turban. [Obs.] With hundred turrets like a turribant. Spenser.