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In Ireland, one of a band that engaged in agrarian outrages by night.

al actions, which have in them vice or virtue. Hooker. Mankind is broken loose from moral bands. Dryden. She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness. Hawthorne.

her the latter nor her children shall enjoy the rank or inherit the possessions of her husband. Brande & C. -- Mor`ga*nat"ic*al*ly, adv.

Dancing the morrice; dancing. In shoals and bands, a morrice train. Wordsworth.

One of a class of marauders or bandits that formerly infested the border country between England and Scotland; -- so called in allusion to the mossy or boggy character of much of the border country.

The mother of one's husband or wife.

globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross; -- called also globe.

A rude, fierce person. [Obs.] No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. Milton.

The nose band of a horse's bridle.

y. And the muster was thirty thousands of men. Wyclif. Ye publish the musters of your own bands, and proclaim them to amount of thousands. Hooker.

A fastening or covering (as a band or cage) for the mouth of an animal, to prevent eating or vicious biting. With golden muzzles all their mouths were bound Dryden. Muzzle sight. (Gun.) See Dispart, n., 2.

more natural than the circumstances in the behavior of those women who had lost their husbands on this fatal day Addison.

A string of beads, etc., or any continuous band or chain, worn around the neck as an ornament.

A scarf, band, or kerchief of silk, etc., passing around the neck or collar and tied in front; a bow of silk, etc., fastened in front of the neck.

A young bird which has not abandoned the nest. Piers Plowman.

An embryo or certain invertebrates in the stage when the primitive band is first developed.

gard; meanness in giving or spending; parsimony; stinginess. Niggardliness is not good husbandry. Addison.

Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band. [Obs.] Milton. The king has his noise of gypsies. B. Jonson.

To support; to maintain. Whiles I in Ireland nourish a mighty band. Shak.

floating straight, obedient to the stream. Shak. The chief his orders gives; the obedient band, With due observance, wait the chief's command. Pope.