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Want of urbanity or courtesy; unpolished manners or deportment; inurbaneness; rudeness. Bp. Hall.

A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field of battle.

Coagulated sour milk diluted with water; -- a common beverage among the Arabs. Also, a fermented liquor made of the same.

A name of several harmless plants, as Arnica montana, Senecio Doronicum, and Paris quadrifolia.

Sipping; touching lightly. [R.] Landor.

. Leopard's bane. [Obs.]

The menhaden.

See Nitrobenzene.

See Moorpan.

The menhaded.

le remedies; a quack doctor. Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that a mountebank ... is preferred before an able physician. Whitlock.

The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.

Like a mountebank or his quackery. Howell.

The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.

A band which goes around the neck; often, the part at the top of a garment.

That part of the headstall of a bridle which passes over a horse's nose.

See Olibanum.

The fragrant gum resin of various species of Boswellia; Oriental frankincense.

A poisonous bulbous plant (Buphane toxicaria) of the Cape of Good Hope.

Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid which is obtained by the oxidation of uric acid, as a white crystalline substance (C3N2H2O3); -- also called oxalyl urea.