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Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine.

The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine. Whewell.

shment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.…

In America (and formerly in England), a promissory note of a bank payable to the bearer on demand, and used as currency; a bank note.

A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to bearer on demand.

An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy.

A very large siluroid fish (Leptops olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; -- also called goujon, mud cat, and yellow cat.

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

Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.

An abode; a cottage. [Prov. Eng.] Wright. It was a relief to dismiss them [Sir Roger's servants] into little beings within my manor. Steele.

To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue. "Except she bend her humor." Shak.

To give; to offer; to commit. [Obs.] To whom, with all submission, on my knee I do bequeath my faithful services And true subjection everlastingly. Shak.

y; to resort; to go; -- with a reflexive pronoun. They betook themselves to treaty and submission. Burke. The rest, in imitation, to like arms Betook them. Milton. Whither shall I betake me, where subsist Milton.

To think; to recollect; to consider. "Bethink ere thou dismiss us." Byron.

ances made and issued by an individual or firm. -- Bills receivable (pl.), the unpaid promissory notes or acceptances held by an individual or firm. McElrath. -- A true bill, a bill of indictment sanctioned by a grand jury.

A tribe of North American Indians formerly inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers.

ed to follow another into a block as long as it proceeds with excessive caution, as in permissive blocking.

ilar instrument, commonly of tin, used by boys for discharging paper wads and other light missiles.

r trust; as, the Board of Admiralty; a board of trade; a board of directors, trustees, commissioners, etc. Both better acquainted with affairs than any other who sat then at that board. Clarendon. We may judge from their letters to the board. Porteus.

A kind of missile weapon consisting of one, two, or more balls of stone, iron, or other material, attached to the ends of a leather cord; -- used by the Gauchos of South America, and others, for hurling at and entangling an animal.