English English Dictionary

To content, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way.

Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.

Having crooked legs.

of Bandy

That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality.

Destruction; death.

Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe.

A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.

To be the bane of; to ruin.

A genus (Actaea) of plants, of the order Ranunculaceae, native in the north temperate zone. The red or white berries are poisonous.

Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious.

Deadly nightshade.

To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the piano.

To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.

To beat or thump, or to cause ( something) to hit or strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it.

To cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair).

The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn.

Alt. of Bangue

The sound produced by a sudden concussion.

A blow as with a club; a heavy blow.