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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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996 words match “BAN”

WITHE n. 5 definitions

A flexible, slender twig or branch used as a band; a willow or osier twig; a withy.

WOLD n. 3 definitions

A plain, or low hill; a country without wood, whether hilly or not. And from his further bank Ætolia's wolds espied. Byron. The wind that beats the mountain, blows More softly round the open wold. Tennyson.

WOOD n. 10 definitions

ted tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain.

WOODLAND n. 2 definitions

ter seem to strive again. Pope. Woodlands and cultivated fields are harmoniously blended. Bancroft.

WORD v. 12 definitions

To flatter with words; to cajole. [Obs.] Shak. To word it, to bandy words; to dispute. [Obs.] "To word it with a shrew." L'Estrange.

WORTHY a. 5 definitions

ing; estimable; excellent; virtuous. Full worthy was he in his lordes war. Chaucer. These banished men that I have kept withal Are men endued with worthy qualities. Shak. Happier thou mayst be, worthier canst not be. Milton. This worthy mind should worthy things embrace. Sir J. Davies.

The band of the sleeve of a shirt, or other garment, which covers the wrist.

An elastic band worn around the wrist, as for the purpose of securing the upper part of a glove.

YEOMANRY n. 3 definitions

yeomen, or freeholders. The enfranchised yeomanry began to feel an instinct for dominion. Bancroft.

e dark brown or blackish, with a caplike mass of long dark hair, and usually with a white band around the face. The females are yellowish white, with a dark spot on the breast and another on the crown. Called also wooyen, and wooyen ape.

g the body white or yellowish white, and conspicuously marked with dark brown or brackish bands.

ZONA n. 2 definitions

A zone or band; a layer. Zona pellucida. Etym: [NL.] (Biol.)

ZONE n. 8 definitions

A band or stripe extending around a body.

ZONED a. 3 definitions

Having zones, or concentric bands; striped.

ZULU n. 2 definitions

(Philol.) One of the most important members of the South African, or Bantu, family of languages, spoken partly in Natal and partly in Zululand, but understood, and more or less in use, over a wide territory, at least as far north as the Zambezi; -- called also Zulu- Kaffir.

A member of the Bantu race comprising the Zulus and the Kaffirs.