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A vessel with thirty banks of oars, or, as some say, thirty ranks of rowers.

The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution.

Having, or surrounded by, three fasciæ, or bands.

An ancient galley or vessel with tree banks, or tiers, of oars.

through the water. Their young men . . . trolled along the brooks that abounded in fish. Bancroft.

requent, long, and tedious speeches, it has been said that a trope never passed his lips. Bancroft.

brilliant flowers of the tropics bloom from the windows of the greenhouse and the saloon. Bancroft.

everal plants of the genus Sarracenia. -- Trumpet major (Mil.), the chief trumpeter of a band or regiment. -- Trumpet marine (Mus.), a monochord, having a thick string, sounded with a bow, and stopped with the thumb so as to produce the harmonic tones; -- said to be the oldest bowed instrument known, and in form the…

A bandage or apparatus used in cases of hernia, to keep up the reduced parts and hinder further protrusion, and for other purposes.

formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.

ish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke.

To cover with turf or sod; as, to turf a bank, of the border of a terrace. A. Tucker.

Wanting a band or string; unfastened. [Obs.] Shak.

To remove a bank from; to open by, or as if by, the removal of a bank. H. Taylor.

To remove a band from; to set free from shackles or fastenings; to unite; to unfasten; to loose; as, unbind your fillets; to unbind a prisoner's arms; to unbind a load.

ies of noctuid moths belonging to Catocala and allied genera, in which the hind wings are banded with red and black or other conspicuous colors. Many of the species are called red underwing.

To loose the girdle or band of; to unbind; to unload. He ungirded his camels. Gen. xxiv. 32.

called in the Authorized Version of the Scriptures. Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow Job xxxix. 10.

To open, as what is rolled or convolved; as, to unroll cloth; to unroll a banner.

To take a swathe from; to relieve from a bandage; to unswaddle. Addison.