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The European band fish (Cepola rubescens).

some smooth table, boards, or flakes of wands, and they will last the longer. English Husbandman.

manner; as, to fling out hard words against another. -- To fling up, to relinquish; to abandon; as, to fling up a design.

A style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and graduated into each other. Ure.

arch for provisions, etc. He [the lion] from forage will incline to play. Shak. One way a band select from forage drives A herd of beeves, fair oxen and fair kine. Milton. Mawhood completed his forage unmolested. Marshall.

To give up; to leave; to abandon. [Obs.] "To forlet sin." Chaucer.

Deserted abandoned; lost. Of fortune and of hope at once forlorn. Spenser. Some say that ravens foster forlorn children. Shak.

Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain.

To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments. Ps. lxxxix. 30.

rch for gold by picking at stone or earth or among roots in isolated spots, picking over abandoned workings, etc.; hence, to steal gold or auriferous matter from another's claim. [Australia]

upon the will. -- Free bench (Eng. Law), a widow's right in the copyhold lands of her husband, corresponding to dower in freeholds. -- Free board (Naut.), a vessel's side between water line and gunwale. -- Free bond (Chem.), an unsaturated or unemployed unit, or bond, of affinity or valence, of an atom or radical.…

o plunders or pillages without the authority of national warfare; a member of a predatory band; a pillager; a buccaneer; a sea robber. Bacon.

To be worn away; to chafe; to fray; as, a wristband frets on the edges.

Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture. See Illust. of Column. Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven. Milton.

One of a number of light or dark bands, produced by the interference of light; a diffraction band; -- called also interference fringe.

An ornamental band for the hair.

A frontal or brow band; a fillet or band worn on the forehead. They shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. Deut. vi. 8.

closehauled, having all the sails full, and lying as near the wind as poesible. -- Full band (Mus.), a band in which all the instruments are employed. -- Full binding, the binding of a book when made wholly of leather, as distinguished from half binding. -- Full bottom, a kind of wig full and large at the bottom.…

A kind of bandage for the head.

To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron. Totten.