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A little banner, flag, or streamer. [Written also bannerol.] From the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole or streamer bearing a cross. Sir W. Scott.

A species of very large rat (Mus giganteus), found in India and Ceylon. It does much injury to rice fields and gardens.

A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work.

An outlaw; a brigand. No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. Milton.

An Irish measure of two feet in length.

Same as Bandelet.

The conductor of a musical band.

her large and fierce dog, usually kept chained or tied up. The keeper entered leading his bandog, a large bloodhound, tied in a leam, or band, from which he takes his name. Sir W. Scott.

A broad leather belt formerly worn by soldiers over the right shoulder and across the breast under the left arm. Originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt.

A glutinous pomatum for the fair.

Disposal; control; license. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

A musical stringed instrument, similar in form to a guitar; a pandore.

Same as Banderole.

The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.

Having crooked legs.

ch destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality. [Obs. except in combination, as in ratsbane, henbane, etc.]

A genus (Actæa) of plants, of the order Ranunculaceæ, native in the north temperate zone. The red or white berries are poisonous.

Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious. "Baneful hemlock." Garth. "Baneful wrath." Chapman. -- Bane"ful*ly, adv. --Bane"ful*ness, n.

Deadly nightshade.

club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly. The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks. Shak.