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f Negroid tribes occupying equatorial and southern Africa. These tribes include, as important divisions, the Kafirs, Damaras, Bechuanas, and many tribes whose names begin with Aba-, Ama-, Ba-, Ma-, Wa-, variants of the Bantu plural personal prefix Aba-, as in Ba-ntu, or Aba-ntu, itself a combination of this prefix with…

Same as Barkentine.

Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike. Spenser. -- n.

The second tine of a stag's horn. See under Antler.

The black and white standard of the Knights Templars.

me contempt, or indicted for some crime; -- so called in distinction from a justice's warrant.

Kind; gracious; favorable. -- Be*nig"nant*ly, adv.

Same as Bez-antler.

See Bezant.

The second branch of a stag's horn.

A gold coin of Byzantium or Constantinople, varying in weight and value, usually (those current in England) between a sovereign and a half sovereign. There were also white or silver bezants. [Written also besant, byzant, etc.]

Having two anthers.

See Oryx.

See Byzantine.

brawling; clamoring; disagreeably clamorous; sounding loudly and harshly. "Harsh and blatant tone." R. H. Dana. A monster, which the blatant beast men call. Spenser. Glory, that blatant word, which haunts some military minds like the bray of the trumpet. W. Irving.

In a blatant manner.

A good fellow; a jovial companion; a free liver.

. be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond servant: but as an hired servant. Lev. xxv. 39, 40.

Pertaining to Brabant, an ancient province of the Netherlands.

A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) -- called also brent and brand goose. The name is also applied to other related species.