Banish business, banish sorrow, To the gods belongs to-morrow.

Cervley It is for wicked men only to dread God, and to endeavour to banish the thoughts of him out of their minds. Tillotson.

Successless all her soft caresses prove, Tobanish from his breast his country's love. Pape. BANISHER, . [from banish.] He that forces another from his own country. In mere spite,

To be full quit of those my banishers, Stand I before thee here." Shakspeare. BA'NISHMENT. n. s. {banissement, Fr.] 1. The act of banishing another; as, he secured himself by the banishment of his enemies.

2. The state of being banished; exile. Now go we in content

To liberty, and not to banishment. Shakspeare.
Round the wide world in banishment we roam,
Forc'd from our pleasing fields and native home.
Dryden.

BANK. n. s.
n. s. [banc, Saxon.]

1. The earth arising on each side of a water. We say, properly. the shore of the sea, and the banks of a river, brook, or small water.

Have you not made an universal shout, That Tyber trembled underneath his bank? Shakspeare. Richmond, in Devonshire, sent out a boat Unto the shore, to ask those on the barks, If they were his assistants. Shaks kspeare. A brook whose stream so great, so good, Was lov'd, was honour'd as a flood; Whose banks the Muses dwelt upon. Crashatv. 'Tis happy when our streams of knowledge flow

Tofill their banks, but not to overthrow. Denbam. O early lost! what tears the river shed, When the sad pomp along his banks was led !

2. Any heap of earth piled up.

Pope.

They besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city; and it stood in the trench. Samuel. 3. [from banc, Fr. a bench.] A scat or bench of rowers.

Plac'd on their banks, the lusty Trojans sweep Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep.

Waller.

Mean time the king with gifts a vessel stores, Bupplies the banks with twenty chosen oars. Dryden. That banks of oars were not in the same plain, but raised above one another, is evident from descriptions of ancient ships. Arbuthnot. 4. A place where money is laid up to be called for occasionally.

Let it be no bank, or common stock, but every man be master of his own money. Not that I altogether mislike banks, but they will hardly be brooked.

Bacon's Essays.

This mass of treasure you should now reduce; But you your store have hoarded in some bank. Denham.

There pardons and indulgences, and giving men a share in saints merits, out of the common bank and treasury of the church, which the pope has the sole custody of.

South.

5. The company of persons concerned in managing a bank.

TO BANK. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To enclose with banks.

Amid the cliffs

In vain at court the bankrupt pleads his cause; His thankless country leaves him to her laws. Pope.

To BANKRUPT. v. a. To break; to disable one from satisfying his creditors.

We cast off the care of all future thrift, because we are already bankrupted. Hammond BANKRUPTCY. n. s. [from bankrupt.] 1. The state of a man broken, ot bankrupt. 2. The act of declaring one's self bankrupt; as, he raised the clamours of his creditors by a sudden bankruptcy. BANNER. n. s. [banniere, Fr. banair, Welsh.]

1. A flag; a standard; a military ensign.

From France there comes a power, who already Have secret seize in some of our best ports, And are at point to shew their open banner. Shakspeare. All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air, With orient colours waving.

Milten.

He said no more; But left his sister and his queen behind, And way'd his royal banner in the wind. Dryd Fir'd with such motives, you do well to joi With Cato's foes, and follow Cæsar's banners. Addison. 2. A streamer born at the end of a lance, or elsewhere. BANNERET n. s. [from banner.] A knight made in the field, with the ceremony of cutting off the point of his standard,

King Oswald had a bannerol of gold and purple set over his tomb. Camden. BA'NNIAN. n. s. A man's undress, or morning gown, such as is worn by the Bannians in the East Indies. BANNOCK. n. s. A kind of oaten or peas

meal cake, mixed with water, and baked upon an iron plate over the fire; used in the northern counties, and in Scotland. BANQUET. n. s. [banquet, Fr. banchetto, Ital. vanqueto, Span] A feast; an entertainment of meat and drink. If a fasting day come, he hath on that day a banquet to make. Hooker.

In his commendations I am fed; It is a banquet to me.

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Shakspeare. You cannot have a perfect palace, except you have two sides; a side for the banquet, and a side for the household; the one for feasts and triumphs, and the other for dwelling. Bacon.

Shall the companions make a banquet of him? Shall they part him among the merchants? Job. At that tasted fruit, The sun, as from Thyestean banquet, turn'd His course intended. Milton.

That dares prefer the toils of Hercules To dalliance, banquets, and ignoble case. Dryden. To BNQUET. v. a. [from the noun.] To tr.at any one with feasts.

Welcome his friends,

BANQUETER. n, s. [from banquet.] 1. A feaster; one that lives deliciously. 2. He that makes feasts.

BANQUET-HOUSE.

ban

BANQUETING HOUSE. J. (from ban Įn. s.

A house where banquets are kept.

In a banqueting-bouse, among certain pleasant trees, the table was set near to an excellent water-work. Sidney.

At the walk's end behold, how rais'd on high A banquet-bouse salutes the southern sky. Dryd. BANQUETTE. n. s. [Fr. in fortification. A small bank at the foot of the parapet, for the soldiers to mount upon when they fire.

BA'NSTICLE. n. s. A small fish, called also a stickleback. Pungitius.

To BA'NTER. v. a. [a barbarous word,

without etymology, unless it be derived from badiner, Fr. To play upon; to rally; to turn to ridicule; to ridicule. The magistrate took it that he bantered him, and bade an officer take him into custody.

L'Estrange.

It is no new thing for innocent simplicity to be the subject of bantering drolls. L'Estrange. Could Alcinous' guests with-hold

From scorn or rage? Shall we, cries one, permit His leud romances, and his bant'ring wit? Tate. BA'NTER. n. s. [from the verb.] Ridi cule; raillery.

This humour, let it look never so silly, as it passes many times for frolick and banter, is one of the most pernicious snares in human life. L'Estrange

Metaphysicks are so necessary to a distinct conception, solid judgment, and just reasoning on many subjects, that those, who ridicule it, will be supposed to make their wit and banter a refuge and excuse for their own laziness. Watts. BA'NTERER. n. s. [from banter.] One that banters, a droll.

What opinion have these religious banterers of the divine power? Or what have they to say for this mockery and contempt? L'Estrange. BA'NTLING.". s [Iit has any etymology, it is perhaps corrupted from the old word bairn, bairnling, a little child.] A little child: a low word.

If the object of their love
Chance by Lucina's aid to prove,
They seldom let the bantling roar,

In basket, at a neighbour's door. Prier. BAPTISM ..[baptismus, Lat. Baxhiouds.] 1. An external ablution of the body, with a certain form of words, which operates and denotes an internal ablution or washing of the soul from original sin. Ayliffe.

Baptism is given by water, and that prescript form of words which the church of Christ doth Hooker.

use.

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To his great baptism flock'd With awe, the regions round; and with them

came

From Nazareth the son of Joseph, deem'd
Unmark't, unknown.

Milton. 2. Baptism is often taken in Scripture for sufferings.

I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how BAPI'SMAL. adj. [from baptism.] Of am I straitened till it be accomplished? Luke. or pertaining to baptism.

When we undertake the baptismal vow, and enter on their new life, it would be apt to discourage us. Hammond.

BAPTIST. 2. s. [baptiste, Fr. Raplisus:] He that administers baptism.

Him the Baptist soon

Descry'd, divinely warn'd, and witness bore As to his worthier. 'Milton.

BAPTISTERY. n. s. [baptisterium, Lat.] The place where the sacrament of baptism is administered.

The great church, baptistery, and leaning Addison. tower, are well worth seeing. To BAPTIZE. v. a. [baptiser, Fr. from Baliw] To christen; to adrainister the sacrament of baptism to one.

He to them shall leave in charge, To teach all nations what of him they learn'd, And his salvation; them who shall believe, Baptizing in the profluent stream, the sign Of washing them from guilt of sin, to life

Pure, and in mind prepar'd, if so befal,
For death like that which the Redeemer died.
Milton.

Let us reflect that we are christians; that we are called by the name of the Son of God, and baptized into an irreconcileable enmity with sin, the world, and the devil.

Rogers, BAPTIZER. 7. s. [from To baptize.] One that christens; one that administers baptism.

BAR. n. s. [barre, Fr.]

. A piece of wood, iron, or other matter, laid cross a passage to hinder entrance.

And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other. Exod. 2. A bolt; a piece of iron or wood fastened to a door, and entering into the post or wall, to hold the door close.

The fish-gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thercof. Nehemiah.

3. Any obstacle which hinders or obstructs; obstruction.

I brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, and said, Hitherto shalt thou come, and no farther.

Job. And had his heir surviv'd him in due course, What limits, England, hadst thou found? what bar?

What world could have resisted?

Daniel's Civil War. Hard thou know'st it to exclude Spiritual substance with corporeal bar. Milton. Must I new bars to my own joy create, Refuse myself what I had forc'd from fate?

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Dryden.

Fatal accidents have set A most unhappy bar between your friendship.

Rowe. 4. A rock, or bank of sand, at the entrance of a harbour or river, which ships cannot sail over at low water.

5. Any thing used for prevention, or exclusion.

Lest examination should hinder and let your proceedings, behold for a bar against that impediment, one opinion newly added. Hooker.

Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze to be

The founder of this law, and female bar. Shak. 6. The place where causes of law are tried, or where criminals are judged; so called from the bar placed to hinder crowds from incommoding the court.

The great duke

Came to the bar, where to his accusations
He pleaded still not guilty. Shakspeare.

Some at the bar with subtlety defend, Or on the bench the knotty laws untye. Dryden. 7. An enclosed place in a tavern or coffeehouse, where the housekeeper sits and receives reckonings.

I was under some apprehension that they would appeal to me; and therefore laid down my penny at the bar, and made the best of my way. Addison.

3. [In law. A peremptory exception against a demand or plea brought by the defendant in an action, that destroys the action of the plaintiff for ever. It is divided into a bar to common intent, and a bar special: a bar to a common intent, is an ordinary or general bar, that disables the declaration or plea of

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the plaintiff; a bar special, is that which is more than ordinary, and falls out in the case in hand, upon some special circumstance of the fact. Cowell. Bastardy is laid in bar of something that is principally commenced. Ayliffe Any thing by which the compages or structure is held together.

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth, with her bars, was about me for ever. Jonab.

10. Any thing which is laid across another, as bars in heraldry.

II Bar of Gold or Silver, is a lump or wedge from the mines, melted down into a sort of mould, and never wrought. 12. Bars of a Horse. The upper part of the gums between the tusks and grinders, which bears no teeth, and to which the bit is applied, and, by its friction, the horse governed.

13. Bars, in Musick, are strokes drawn perpendicularly across the lines of a piece of musick; used to regulate the beating or measure of musical time. 14. Bar, in African traffick, is used for a denomination of price; payment being formerly made to the Negroes almost wholly in iron bars.

BAR SPOT 2. s. Two half bullets joined togther by an iron bar; used in sea engagements for cutting down the masts and rigging.

To BAR. v. a. 'from the noun.] 1. To fasten or shut any thing with a bolt, or bar.

My duty cannot suffer T' obey in all your daughter's hard commands; Though their injunction be to bar my doors, And let this tyrannous night take hold upon Shakspeare.

you.

When you bar the window-shutters of your lady's bed-chamber at nights, leave open the sashes to let in air. Swift.

2. To hinder; to obstruct.

When law can do no right, Let it be lawful, that law bar no wrong. Shaksp. 3. To prevent; to exclude; to make impracticable.

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5.

The houses of the country were all scattered, and yet not so far off as that it barred mutual

Doth it not seem a thing very probable, that God doth purposely add, Do after my judg ments; as giving thereby to understand, that his meaning in the former sentence was but to bar similitude in such things as were repugnant to his ordinances, laws, and statutes? Hooker. To detain, by excluding the claim ants: with from.

Hath he set bounds between their love and me? I am their mother; who shall bar them from me? Shakspeare.

To shut out: with from. Our hope of Italy not only lost,

But shut from ev'ry shore, and barr'd frem Dryden.

ev'ry coast.

What is a greater pedant than a mere man of the town? Bar him the playhouses, and you strike him dumb. Addison.

3. To except; to make an exception. Well, we shall see your bearingNay, but I bar to-night; you shall not gage me By what we do to-night. Shakspeare. 9. [In law.

suit.

To hinder the process of a

But buff and belt men never know these cares; Nor time, nor trick of law, their action bars: Their cause they to an easier issue put. Dryden. From such delays as conduce to the finding out of truth, a criminal cause ought not to be barred. Ayliffe.

If a bishop be a party to a suit, and excommunicates his adversary, such excommunication shall not disable or bar his adversary. Ayliffe. 10. To bar a vein:

This is an operation performed upon the veins of the legs of a horse, and other parts, with intent to stop the malignant humours. It is done by opening the skin above it, disengaging it, and tying it both above and below, and striking between the two ligatures. BARB. n. s. [barba, a beard, Lat.] 1. Any thing that grows in the place of a beard.

The barbel is so called by reason of his barb or watteis at his mouth, under his chaps.

Walton's Angler. 2. The points that stand backward in an arrow, or fishing hook, to hinder them from being extracted.

Nor less the Spartan fear'd, before he found The shining barb appear above the wound. Pope's Iliad.

3. The armour for horses.

Their horses were naked, without any barbs; for albeit many brought barbs, few regarded to put them on. Hayward. Вакв. п s. [contracted from Barbary.]

A Barbary horse.

Horses brought from Barbary are commonly of a slender light size, and very lean, usually chosen for stallions. Barbs, it is said, may die, but never grow old; the vigour and mettle of barbs never cease but with their life. Far. Dict To BARB. . a. [from the noun.] 1. To shave; to dress out the beard.

Shave the head, and tie the beard, and say it was the desire of the penitent to be so barbed before his death. Shakspeare.

2. To furnish horses' with armour. BARBED.

See

A warriour train That like a deluge pour'd upon the plain; On barbed steeds they rode, in proud array, Thick as the college of the bees in May. Dryd.

Philips.

BARBACAN. n. s. [barbacane, Fr. barbacana, Span.]

1. A fortification placed before the walls of a town.

Within the barbacan a porter sate,

Day and night duly keeping watch and ward: Nor wight nor word mote pass out of the gate, But in good order, and with due regard.

Fairy Queen. 2. A fortress at the end of a bridge. 3. An opening in the wall through which the gurs are levelled. BARBA'DOES Cherry. [malphigia, Lat.Ţ

In the West Indies, it rises to be fifteen or sixteen feet high, where it produces great quantities of a pleasant tart fruit; propagated in gardens there, but in Europe it is a curiosity.

Miller. BARBA'DOES Tar. A bituminous sub-. stance, differing little from the petroleum floating on several springs in England and Scotland. Woodward. BARBARIAN. n. s. [barbarus, Lat.' It seems to have signified at first only foreign or a foreigner; but, in time, implied some degree of wildness or cruelty.]

There were not different gods among the Greeks and barbarians. Stilling flect. But with descending show'rs of brimstone hir'd, The wild barbarian in the storm expir'd. Addison. 2. A foreigner.

I would they were barbarians; as they are, Though in Rome litter'd. Shaksp. Coriolanus. 3. A brutal monster; a man without pity: a term of reproach.

Thou fell barbarian! What had he done? what could provoke thy madness

To assassinate so great, so brave a man?

A. Philips. BARBARIAN. adj. Belonging to barba

rians savage.

Some felt the silent stroke of mould'ring age, Barbarian blindness. Pope. BARBARICK. adj. [barbaricus, Lat. in a different sense, it means in Latin wrought, fretted.] Foreign: far-fetched. The gorgeous east, with richest hand, Show'rs on her kings barbarick pearl and gold. Milton's Paradise Lost.

The eastern front was glorious to behold, With diamond flaming and barbarick gold. Popes BA'R BARISM. n. s. [barbarismus, Lat.] 1. A form of speech contrary to the purity and exactness of any language.

The language is as near approaching to it, as our modern barbarism will allow; which is all that can be expected from any now extant. Dryden's Juvenal, Dedication. 2. Ignorance of arts; want of learning. I have for barbarism spoke more Than for that angel knowledge you can say. Shakspear.