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Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense).

Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.

or trivial; the commonplace, in speech. The highest things were thus brought down to the banalities of discourse. J. Morley.

A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.

te, benzine, and a little pyroxylin, it contains amyl acetate, which gives it the odor of bananas.

The territory governed by a ban.

A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court. In banc, In banco (the ablative of bancus), In bank, in full court, or with full judicial authority; as, sittings in banc (distinguished from sittings at nisi prius).

An ornamental covering, as of carpet or leather, for a bench or form.

A bank, especially that of Venice.

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

A small red fish of the genus Cepola; the ribbon fish.

Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature. Zeal too had a place among the rest, with a bandage over her eyes. Addison.

A fabric made in Manilla from the older leaf sheaths of the abaca (Musa textilis).

A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form.

A light box of pasteboard or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets, etc.

A narrow band or fillet; a part of a head-dress. Around the edge of this cap was a stiff bandeau of leather. Sir W. Scott.

A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring. Gwilt.

One banded with others. [R.]

A barbed dart carrying a banderole which the banderillero thrusts into the neck or shoulder of the bull in a bullfight.

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