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A band for the breast. Specifically: (Naut.) A band of canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who heaves the lead in sounding.

A lawless fellow who lives by plunder; one of a band of robbers; especially, one of a gang living in mountain retreats; a highwayman; a freebooter. Giving them not a little the air of brigands or banditti. Jeffery.

Life and practice of brigands; highway robbery; plunder.

dy, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed to linen or other material. It was worn in the Middle Ages. [Written also brigantine.] Jer. xlvi. 4. Then put on all thy gorgeous arms, thy helmet, And brigandine of brass. Milton.

Like a brigand or freebooter; robberlike.

Brigandage.

A peninsula. [Obs.]

See Bilander.[Obs.]

One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey.

A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel- brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros qusesita. Called also Coromandel wood.

(Mus.) Gradually diminishing in rapidity and loudness.

Fluor spar. See Kand.

A lamp stand of any sort.

Heated to whiteness; glowing with heat. "A candent vessel." Boyle.

An East Indian resin, of a pellucid white color, from which small ornaments and toys are sometimes made.

See Inclandescence.

Glowing; luminous; incandescent.

Growing white. [Obs.]

White. [Obs.] The box receives all black; but poured from thence, The stones came candid forth, the hue of innocence. Dryden.

The position of a candidate; state of being a candidate; candidateship.