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Preceding dinner.

A chief of a monastery, corresponding to abbot in the Roman Catholic church.

A lamp with a circular hollow wick and glass chimney which allow a current of air both inside and outside of the flame. Argand burner, a burner for an Argand lamp, or a gas burner in which the principle of that lamp is applied.

Stranded. Sir W. Scott.

The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage.

A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right.

With the hand turned backward; as, a backhanded blow.

State of being backhanded; the using of backhanded or indirect methods.

A backhanded blow.

where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by canons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands).

by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or confined; a fetter. Every one's bands were loosed. Acis xvi 26.

A small red fish of the genus Cepola; the ribbon fish.

A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc.

A fabric made in Manilla from the older leaf sheaths of the abaca (Musa textilis).

A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form.

A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets, etc.

A narrow band or fillet; a part of a head-dress. Around the edge of this cap was a stiff bandeau of leather. Sir W. Scott.

A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring. Gwilt.

One banded with others. [R.]

A barbed dart carrying a banderole which the banderillero thrusts into the neck or shoulder of the bull in a bullfight.