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A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.

One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center.

Fig.: To be noise about; to chafe against. The sea that chides the banks of England. Shak. To chide hither, chide from, or chide away, to cause to come, or to drive away, by scolding or reproof.

the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever.

Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.

With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak.

A band or organized company of singers, especially in church service. [Formerly written also quire.]

A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.

th gripings and cramps, usually caused by imprudence in diet or by gastrointestinal disturbance. -- Chicken cholera. See under Chicken. -- Hog cholera. See under Hog. -- Sporadic cholera, a disease somewhat resembling the Asiatic cholera, but originating where it occurs, and rarely becoming epidemic.…

To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words. Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge. Bacon.

One who bandies words or is very argunentative. [Jocular] Shak.

A band of singers and dancers. The Grecian tragedy was at first nothing but a chorus of singers. Dryden.

a genus of poisonous umbelliferous plants, of which the water hemlock or cowbane is best known.

y having cilia. In some species the cilia cover the body generally, in others they form a band around the mouth.

A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if to strengthen it. [Written also cimia.]

The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.

A distinct girdle or band of color; a raised spiral line as seen on certain univalve shells.

o surround; to inclose; to encircle. Prior. Pope. Their heads are circled with a short turban. Dampier. So he lies, circled with evil. Coleridge. To circle in, to confine; to hem in; to keep together; as, to circle bodies in. Sir K. Digby.

erson, having the form of a circle; that which encircles, as a ring, a bracelet, or a headband. Her fair locks in circlet be enrolled. Spenser.

; to hem in; to surround; to bound; to confine; to restrain. To circumscribe royal power. Bancroft.