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The wild ox of Java (Bibos Banteng).

essed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity. Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered on my haggard looks the next day. W. Irving.

One who banters or rallies.

g food containing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; -- so called from William Banting of London.

lightly contemptuous or depreciatory.] In what out of the way corners genius produces her bantlings. W. Irving.

huanas, 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.

An East Indian insectivorous mammal of the genus Tupaia.

A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.

Lit., May you live ten thousand years; -- used in salutation of the emperor and as a battle cry. [Japan]

To abandon. [Obs.] Enforced the kingdom to aband. Spenser.

To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject. [Obs.] That he might . . . abandon them from him. Udall. Being all this time abandoned from your bed. Shak.

Forsaken, deserted. "Your abandoned streams." Thomson.

Unrestrainedly.

One to whom anything is legally abandoned.

One who abandons. Beau. & Fl.

The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. The abandonment of the independence of Europe. Burke.

Anything forfeited or confiscated.

See Abnet.

A West Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest.

Banishment. [Obs.] Bailey.