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A blow as with a club; a heavy blow. Many a stiff thwack, many a bang. Hudibras.

A man's loose gown, like that worn by the Banians.

g business; a joint stock or capital. [Obs.] Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money. Bacon.

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 the syllable -ntu, a person. -- Ban"tu, a.…

In a baptismal manner.

A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state.

An uncivilized state or condition; rudeness of manners; ignorance of arts, learning, and literature; barbarousness. Prescott.

The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization.

In a barbarous manner.

A social entertainment, where many people assemble, usually in the open air, at which one or more large animals are roasted or broiled whole.

A large fresh-water fish ( Barbus vulgaris) found in many European rivers. Its upper jaw is furnished with four barbels.

A variety of paralysis, peculiar to India and the Malabar coast; -- considered by many to be the same as beriberi in chronic form.

Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.

The man who manages a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.

The proprietor or manager of a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.

The manager of a barge. [Obs.]

A small beetle of many species (family Scolytidæ), which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees, often doing great damage.

The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself. [Eng.] Burton.

In a base manner; with despicable meanness; dishonorably; shamefully.

membrane composed of a single layer of flat cells, forming the substratum upon which, in many organs, the epithelioid cells are disposed.