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One who, or that which balks.

A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.

d with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aërial navigation.

One who goes up in a balloon; an aëronaut.

One who votes by ballot.

A swindler; one who deceives by trickery. [Colloq.] Arbuthnot.

nch king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army.

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

One banded with others. [R.]

One who thrusts in the banderillas in bullfighting. W. D. Howells.

One of the leather or wooden cases in which the charges of powder were carried. [Obs.]

A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.

To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power. "We banish you our territories." Shak.

One who banishes.

An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity…

One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.

who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors. Blackstone.

istiophorus, of the Swordfish family, having a broad bannerlike dorsal fin; the sailfish. One species (H. Americanus) inhabits the North Atlantic.

To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast. Were it a draught for Juno when she banquets, I would not taste thy treasonous offer. Milton.

One who banquets; one who feasts or makes feasts.