Hem whatever path he goes,

Stil looks right on before his nose;
And birds it little less than treason,
Te larik his stomach or his reason.

Mallet. Cupid & Hymen. BALL, R. Sw. Ball; Ger. and Dut. Bollen, were, vertere, rotare, to roll, turn, round; Bol, rundus.

Any thing round, or rounded; as a cricket-ball, a billiard-ball, the eye-ball, the ball of the earth. And with these wordes I brast out to weepe, that euery text of mine eyen for greatnesse seemed they boren out the b of my sight, and that all the water hadde ben out ronne. Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. i. For where as God hath shewed vnto vs certaine tokes of godhed, in the heauenly balles and circles aboue, and the yearthe beneth in the sea, and in all lyuing creatures the yearthe, yet hath he wrought in none of theym more wonderfully, than in manne.-Udal. Actes, c. 17.

Some writers sale that the Dolphyn thinkynge kyng Henry to be geuen still to suche plaies and light folies as he exersised & vsed before the tyme that he was exalted to the crane sent to hym a tunne of tennis balles to plaie with, wwt saled that he coulde better skil of tennis then of win, and was more expert in light games than marciall pocity-Hall. Hen. V. an. 2.

King. We are glad the Dolphin is so pleasant with vs, His present, and your paines we thanke you for: When we have matcht our rackets to these balles, We will in France (by God's grace) play a set, Shail strike his father's crowne into the hazard.

Shakespeare. Hen. V. Acti. sc. 2.

Here is then nothing throwne downe that was before balled but you east snow balles at ye windowes of the bing, which may for a tyme darken them, till your snowe be me away with the sunne.-Whitgift. Defence, p. 198.

Since Echt so necessary is to life,
And almost life itself, if it be true,
That light is in the soul,

She all in every part; why was the sight
To such a tender ball as th' eye confin'd?

Milton. Samson Agonistes.

The disk of Phoebus, when he climbs on high,
Appears at first but as a bloodshot eye;
And when his chariot downward drives to bed,
His bait is with the same suffusion red.

Dryden. Ovid. Met. b. xv.

BALLAD, v. BALLAD, n.

BALLADER.

BALLADEY.

BALLATED.

BA'LLATRY.

And if to symptoms we may credit give,
This very time, wherein we two now live,
Shall in the compass, wound the muses more,
Then all th' old English ignorance before;
Base balladry is so belov'd and sought.

Drayton. Elegy to Master G. Sandys.

Alas! I make but repetition,
Of what is ordinary, and ryalto talk,
And ballated, and would be plaid o' th' stage,
But that vice many times finds such loud friends,
That preachers are charm'd silent.

Webster. Vittoria Corombona, Act iii.

The villages also must have their visitors to enquire what lectures the bagpipe, and the rebbec reads, even to the ballatry and the gammuth of every municipal fidler, for these are the countryman's Arcadia, and his Monte Mayors.

Milton. Speech. Unlicensed Printing.

Cleo. Nay 'tis most certaine, Iras: sawcie lictors Will catch at vs like strumpets, and scald rimers Ballad vs out a tune.

Shakespeare. Ant. & Cleop. Act. v. sc. 2.

The silenc'd tales i' th' metamorphoses
Shall stuff their lines, and swell the windy page;
Till verse, refin'd by thee, in this last age
Turn ballad-rhime, or those old idols be
Ador'd again with new apostacy.

Carew. Elegy on Doctor Donne.

Poor verbal quips, outworn by serving-men, tapsters, and milkmaids: even laid aside by balladers. Overbury. Character, sign. G. iv.

Ballads, and all the spurious excess
Of ills that malice could devise,
Or ever swarm'd from a licentious press,
Hung round about him like a spell.

Otway. The Poet's Complaint of his Musc.
Those heads that us'd most indolent to move
To sing-song, ballet, and sonata love,
Began their buried senses to explore,
And found they now had passions as before.

Upon Addison's Calo.
Thither no more the peasant shall repair,
To sweet oblivion of his daily care;
No more the farmer's news, the barber's tale,
No more the woodman's ballad shall prevail.

BALLAST, v. BA'LLAST, n. BA'LLASTING.

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Goldsmith. Deserted Village. A. S. Hlastan, Be-hlæstan, to lade, load or fraught a ship. Hence, perhaps our Past part. Hlæsted, present Ballast, saburra. Be-hlæsted, loaded or laden, (Somner.) Dut. It is applied toand Ger. Ballast. That lading or loading which is used to steady a vessel in the water, or to steady any thing in its motion or action. To ballast,

To steady; to place firmly on equipoise.

Hee put in the ballast of the said ships, great store of beames of thicke plankes.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. i. p. 594. The ships [were] scarcely able to beare any saile for want of balast.-Id. Ib. vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 173.

The crane to labour, fearing some rough flaw,
With sand and gravel burthening his craw:
Noted by man, which by the same did find

BALLOT, v.
BALLOT, n.

BALLOTANT.
BALLOTA'TION.
BALLOTIN.

stances, into a box.

Eastward Hoe, Act i. sc. 1. Fr. Balloter; It. Ballotare; from Ball, (Skinner.)

Applied to a particular mode of election, by casting balls, or other small sub

The judges understanding this worthy and true defence, they all arose from their seats and laughed a good, and would never take their balls to ballot against him [Epaminondas.]-North. Plutarch, p. 927.

Which don immediatly before the ballot, and so the letter unknown to the ballotants, they can use no fraud or jugling. Harrington. Oceana, p. 113.

Wherupon eight ballotins or pages, take eight of the boxes and go four on the one, and four on the other side of the house; and every magistrate and senator holds up a little pellet of linen, as the box passes, between his finger and his thumb, that men may see he has but one, and then puts it into the same.-Id. Ib. p. 116.

The election of the duke of Venice is one of the most intricate and curious forms in the world; consisting of ten several precedent ballotations.-Reliq. Wottoniana, p. 260.

This gang had a balloting-box, and balloted how things should be carried, by way of tentamens; which being not used or known in England before upon this account, the room every evening was very full. Wood. Athenae Oxon. John Harrington.

The greatest of the parliament men hated this design of rotation and ballotting, as being against their power.-Id. Ib. No magistrate was to continue above three years, and all to be chosen by ballot; than which choice nothing could be invented more fair and impartial, as 'twas then thought, though opposed by many for several reasons.-Id. Ib. Some held no way so orthodox

To try it, as the ballot-box,

And, like the nation's patriots,
To find, or make, the truth by votes.

Butler. The Elephant in the Moon. I am afraid, in process of time, it will introduce new inconveniences; as this manner of balloting, [tacitis suffragiis] seems to afford a sort of screen to injustice and partiality. Melmoth. Pliny, b. iii. Let. 20.

BALM, v.
BALM, n.
BA'LMY.

mum;

Imo. 'Mongst friends?

or met.)

To Balm, is to wash with balm, or any thing balmy. To sweeten, soften, lull, lenify. See to EMBALM.

They bawmid his body.-R. Brunne, p. 341.
In May that mother is of monethes glade
That fresh flours, blew, white, and rede,
Ben quicke ayen, that winter deed made,
And ful of baume is fleting euery mede.

Chaucer. Troil. & Cres. b. ii.
And certes all the breath that went
Out of his trumpes mouth smelde
As men a potfull of baume helde

Emong a basket full of roses.-Id. House of Fame, b. iii. Thus she came to Mantuell, and dyd so moche that she knewe the trouth where her father was buryed; then he was dygged vp, and his bones wasshed and bawmed, and wrapped in leade, and brought to the cytie of Ciuyll.

Berners. Froissart. Chron. vol. ii. c. 155.

Then flew Apollo to the fight, from the Idalian hill,
At all parts putting into act, his great commander's will:
Drew all the darts, washt, balm'd the corse; which deckt
with ornament.

By slepe and death (these featherd twin) he into Lycia sent.-Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. xvi.

Taller, No. 189.

Others attribute this balneal heat to the sun, whose all searching beames penetrating the pores of the earth, do heat the waters.-Howell, b. i. s. 6. Let. 35.

And the balnearies, or bathing-places, that they may remain under the sun until evening, he exposeth unto the summer setting.-Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vi. c. 7.

And so as the head may be disturbed by the skin, it may the same way be relieved; as is observable in balneations, washings, and fomentations, either of the whole body, or of that part alone.-Id. Ib. b. ii. c. 6.

Should I sigh out my days in grief,
And, as my beads, count miseries;
My wound would meet with no relief
For all the balsam of mine eyes:
I'll therefore set my heart at rest,
And of bad market make the best.

Mal. Stevenson. Ellis, vol. iii. Whatever the wounds of our conscience be, is not the bloud of the cross, tempered with our hearty repentance, and applied by a lively faith, a sovereign balsam, of virtue sufficient to cure them?-Barrow, vol. ii. Ser. 32.

In fevers and epidemical distempers, it [tar water] is (and I have found it so) as well as in chronical diseases, a most safe and efficacious medicine, being good against too great fluidity as a balsamic, and good against viscidity as a soap. Berkley. Siris, § 60.

The Britons squeeze the works Of sedulous bees, and mixing odorous herbs Prepare balsamic cups, to wheezing lungs Medicinal, and short-breath'd, ancient sires.

J. Philips. Cider, b. ii. [Ros-solis], whether it hath a cordial vertue by sudden refection, sensible experiment doth hardly confirm, but that it may have a balsamical and resumptive vertue, whereby it becomes a good medicine in catarrhes and consumptive dispositions, practise and reason conclude.

Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. ii. c. 7.

That bright space
Guarded the spicy tribes from Afric's shore,
Or Ind, or Araby, Sabæan plants
Weeping with nard, and balsams.

Mason. The English Garden, b. iv.

This caustic venom
⚫ by the drunken venous tubes, that yawn
In countless pores o'er all the pervious skin
Imbib'd, would poison the balsamic blood,
And rouse the heart to every fever's rage.

Armstrong. Of Preserving Health, b. i.

Now the radical moisture is not the tallow or fat of animals but an oily and balsamous substance; for the fat or tallow, as also the phlegm or watry parts are cold; whereas the oily and balsamous parts are of a lively heat and spirit. Sterne. Tristram Shandy, vol. v. c. 36.

BALUSTER. Fr. Ballustre; Sp. BalausBALUSTRADE. ter; It. Balaustro. Dalla BA'LUSTERED. forma simile alla balaustra

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(from the Gr. Baλavoriov, the flower or blossom of the pomegranate); balaustro, si dice certa colonetta, che regge l'architrave del ballatoio, (Vedi. La Crusca.) Menage. Applied to

A small column used chiefly on terraces, tops of buildings, and frontages. It is corruptly proform a balustrade. nounced bannister. Balusters, when continued,

As to rails and balusters, so humour the order that the Tuscan be plain, and not too gouty, or too close to one another, or far assunder; that is, not exceeding twice the diameter of the necks.-Evelyn. Of Architecture.

If he describes a house, he shows the face,
And after walks you round from place to place;
Here is a vista, there the doors unfold,
Balconies here are ballustred with gold;
Then counts the rounds and ovals in the halls.
Dryden. The Art of Poetry, c. 1.

Tir'd then, perchance, of nets that daily claim
Thy renovating labour, thou wilt form,
With elm and oak, a rustic balustrade
Of firmest juncture: happy could thy toil
Make it as fair as firm: yet vain the wish,
Aim but to hide, not grace, its formal line.
Mason. The English Garden, b. ii.
BAMBOOZLE. Not in our old lexico-
BAMBOOZLER. graphers. Serenius has,
BAMBOOZLING. n. to Bam, or Bamboozle, de-
ludere; but he offers no etymology.

To delude, to mislead, to cheat, to cozen, to deceive, to beguile.

After Nic. had bambouzled John awhile about the 18,000 and the 28,000, John called for counters; but what with sleight of hand, and taking from his own score, and adding to John's, Nic. brought the balance always on his own side. Swift. Hist. of John Bull. There are a set of fellows they call banterers and bamboozlers, that play such tricks.-Arbuthnot.

This whimsical phænomenon,
Confounding all my pro and con,
Bamboozles the account again,
And draws me nolens volens in.

King. The Stumbling Block. But says I, Sir, I perceive this is to you all bamboozling; why you look as if you were Don Diego'd to the tune of a thousand pounds.-Tatler, No. 31.

BAN, v. Ger. and D. Bannen, Bann; BAN, n. Sw. Banna; a word of very variBA'NNING, n. ous applications. (See Wachter, Thre, Kilian, and Menage.) A. S. Bannan, Abannan, which Somner interprets,-to command; to publish, to proclaim; to call forth, summon, congregate, or call together. Hence also he adds, Bannes of marriage; and the Fr. Bannir; the It. Bandire; Eng. Banish. Goldast (a name of no great weight perhaps, see Bayle,) derives Bann, coactio imperantis, from Band, vinculum, from Binden, vincire. This, however, is rejected by Wachter, who asserts that from Bann, princeps, comes Bannen, to compel by imperial authority; whether by commanding, forbidding, summoning, punishing, restricting, exacting, publishing, declaring the law, or by any other means belonging to those in power. With respect to the Bannes of marriage, there publish the bands, bonds, or obligations of matriappears little difficulty; to publish them, is to mony into which the parties enter.

Tooke derives Ban (to curse), and Bane, from the verb, to Bay, thus: past part. Bayen, Bay'n, Baen, Bản. See to BAY, also BAD, base, and BAIT, (as dogs do a bear.)-See Tooke, 8vo. ed. vol. ii. p. 80. To ban, then, is (clamourously, vehemently)—

To forbid, to prohibit, to interdict, to excommunicate, to execrate, to curse. See to BANISH.

Of ys rounde table ys ban aboute he sende,
That eche a Wytesonetyd to carleon wende.
R. Gloucester, p. 187.

He gan his slouthe for to banne,
But it was to late thanne.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv.

Than Peter being more afrayde began not onely to abiure and forsake Jesus, but also to execrate and ban himselfe, if euer he knewe the manne.-Udal. Matthew, c. 26.

His foes doe wake by day

they dread to sleepe the night: They banne the sunne, they curse the moone, and all that else giues light.

Turberville. The Torments of Hell.

Wherefore Homer the poet, among the cursings & ban ings that he giueth vnto certaine men, putteth this for on of the sorest: I pray God (saieth he) their wiues migh meddle with other men.

Vives. Instruction of a Christian Woman, b. ii. c. 3 And contrarywise, when they sinne vnpunished, and whe the rulers haue no respect vnto equitie or honestie, then Go sendeth his cursse among them, as hunger, dearth, morein bannyng, pestilence, warre, oppression. Tyndall. Workes, p. 10

And here upon my knees, striking the earth,
I ban their souls to everlasting pains,

And extreme tortures of the fiery deep,
That thus have dealt with me in my distress.
Marlow. The Jew of Malta, Acti

Besides this condemnation, they decred also, that all th religious priests and women should ban and accurse him But hereunto answered one of the nuns called Theano, th daughter of Menon, of the village of Agraula, saying tha she was professed religious, to pray and to bless, not to curs and ban.-North. Plutarch, p. 174.

Puc. A plaguing mischiefe light on Charles, and thee, And may ye both be sodainly surpriz'd By bloudy hands, in sleeping on your beds.

Yorke. Fell banning hagge,inchantresse,hold thy tongue Shakespeare. Hen. VI. Act v. sc. Furthermore, who is ther that is not afraid of all male dictions and cursed execrations; and especially when th names of the infernall fiends or unluckie soules are used i such bannings?-Holland. Plinie, b. xxviii. c. 2.

Bold deed thou hast presum'd, adventrous Eve,
And peril great provok't, who thus hath dar'd
Had it been onely coveting to eye

That sacred fruit, sacred to abstinence,
Much more to taste it under banne to touche.

Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ix BANS, or Of marriage, i. e. the bands o BANNS. bonds. See BAN.

Thus crieth he out vpo al ye church, and sayth they for bede al matrimony, because they forbede the banes betwen freres and nunnes.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 434.

Be for ever her's,

As she is yours, and heaven increase your comforts.
Amet. Cleophila hath play'd the churchman's part;
I'll not forbid the bans.
Men.

Are you consented?
Ford. The Lover's Melancholy, Act v. sc.

I presse me none but good house-holders, yeomens' sonnes enquire me out contracted batchelers, such as had been ask'd twice on the banes; such a commoditie of warm slaues, as had as lieue heare the deuill, as a drumine. Shakespeare. 1 Part Hen. IV. Act iv. sc. 1 In England, all marriages celebrated without the regula publication of banns in the parish church, where either the parties, not being either a widow or widower, is unde the age of twenty-one, and celebrated without the consen of the father, or if he is dead, of the mother and guardians,are null, and the children of such marriage are illegitimat

BAND, v. BAND, n. BA'NDAGE. BA'NDON. BAND-DOG. (Somner.)

R. Brunne, p. 161

And bane practised soreery and witchcrafte, contrarye to year and lawe of God, not without making some bande

at with the wicked spirite the arche enemy to God, whose they haue serued, and obeyed.—Udal. Rev. c. 21. The emperour, and his barouns,

Telt heom to thy baundouns,

Wch body and chatel, nygh and feorre,

Is helpe thee to thy werre!

Weber. K. Alisa under, vol. i. p. 132. And she that coulde well kepe the prince in her bandon te and subtylte, she made the prince to be her husand bycause she coulde haue no chylde, she douted to the prince shulde be deuorsed frō her.

Berners. Froissart, Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 244.

To such as will be like swine, we must yoke the for ng hedges, and ringe them for wroting, and haue bandepa to dryue them out of the corne with byting, and leade then out by the eares.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 586.

And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and themselves under a curse, saying, that they woad neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

And thus to Stanley saith, in Richard's name;
My lord, the king salutes you, and commands
The to his ayde you bring your ready bands,
Or else he sweares by Him who sits on high,
Before the armies ioyne, your sonne shall die."

Beaumont. Bosworth Field.

But when the post was pulled once away,
Which stood to uphold the king and his kin,
Yorer and his banders proudly preased in,
I thenge the crowne by title of right,
Beginning with law and ending with might.

Mirror for Magistrates, p. 352.

Ja this meane while the senatours fell to strive who should bag and the desire of soveraigntie troubled much and 1ed their minds. But as yet, there was no banding sing from any one person in particular. Holland. Livius, p. 12. Then Somerset says, Set the bandog on the bull. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, Song 23. Thines went on so far, that my mistress presented me with At nightcap and a lac'd band of her own working. Tatler, No. 91.

As all men naturally, by indissoluble bands of obligation, * the sablerts and servants of God; so God indispensably Durexrusally deth require the same loyalty and fidelity, same diligence, the same reverence from all. Barrow, vol. iii. Ser. 38.

From Jove he comes. the captive to restore;
Nor can the thunder of his sire do more.
Kuligion shall dread nothing but disguise;
Ana Justice aced no bandage for her eyes.

Ye see how all around them wait, The masters of human fate,

Garth. Claremont.

And back misfortune's baleful train, Ashew them where in ambush stand seize their prey, the murderous band! Ah, tell them, they are men.

Gray. On a Prospect of Eton College.

So saving, she the silken bandage loos'd,
Araded further speech, prepar'd to watch
The new surprise, and guide the doubtful scene,
Eylence more than tenfold night conceal'd.

Jago. Edge Hill, b. iii.
The mastiff or ban dog [is] a species of great size, and
th, and a very loud barker.
Pennant. Zoology, vol. i. Dog.
BANDIT. Fr. Bandit; It. Bandito;
BANDITTO. Bandido. Ban and ditto, (qv.)
past part. of Dicere.
Oue declared to be ban'd, banished, exiled, out-
An outlaw.

↑ Romane sworder, and bandetto slaue Murder'd sweet Tully.

Sp.

one to another, with a bandy.

To beat, or throw, or toss, to and fro; to give and take in turns; to exchange.

Bandy-leg, is bending-leg; bowing.
The zodiac is the line; the shooting stars,
Which in an eye-bright evening seem to fall,
Are nothing but the balls they lose at bandy.

Brewer. Lingua, Act ii. sc. 6.

Rom. Draw, Benuolio, beat downe their weapons:
Gentlemen for shame forbeare this outrage,
Tibalt, Mercutio, the Prince expresly hath
Forbidden bandying in Verona streetes.

Shakespeare. Romeo & Juliet, Act iii. sc. 1.

I'll send him balls and rackets, if I live,
That they such racket shall in Paris see,
When over line with bandies I shall drive,
As that before the set be fully done,
France may (perhaps) into the hazard run.

Drayton. The Battle of Agincourt.

Had she affections and warm youthfull blood,
She would be as swift in motion as a ball,
My words would bandy her to my sweete loue,
And his to me.-Shakespeare. Rom. & Jul. Act ii. sc. 5.

For had we no mastery at all over our thoughts, but they were all like tennis balls, bandied, and struck upon us, as it were by rackets from without then could we not steadily and constantly carry on any designs and purposes of life. Cudworth. Intell. System, p. 845.

But let that pass, they now begun
To spur their living engines on;
For as whipp'd tops and bandy'd balls
The learned hold, are animals;
So horses they affirm to be

Mere engines made by geometry.-Hudibras, pt. i. c. 2.

He that is employed has no leisure to move in the little disputes and quarrels which trouble the peace of the world, and which are chiefly kept up and bandied to and fro by those who have nothing else to do. Atterbury, vol. iv. Ser. 13.

She calls it witty to be rude;
And, placing raillery in railing,
Will tell aloud your greatest failing;
Nor make a scruple to expose
Your bandy leg, or crooked nose.

Swift. Furniture of a Woman's Mind.

To give the sum of all, most of the contests of the litigious world, pretending for truth, are but the bandyings of one man's affections against another's.

Glanvil. Vanity of Dogmatizing, c. 14.

Thy once formidable name
Shall grace her humble records, and be heard
In scoffs and mockery, bandied from the lips
Of all the vengeful brotherhood around,
So oft the patient victims of thy scorn.

Akenside. The Pleasures of Imagination, b. iii.

BANE, v. Goth. Banjos, ulcers, sores, BANE, n. wounds. (Luke, xvi. 21.) Banjo BA'NEFUL. fulls, full of ulcers, sores, wounds. (Luke, xvi. 20.) A. S. Bana, destruction; Sw. Bana, a wound; perhaps, says Ihre, from Bana, In Piers Plouhman we find Abane. percutere. But see BAN. According to Tooke's etymology, there given, Bane is, any thing abhorred, hated --because hurtful, destructive, mischievous; and

And how that in those ten yeres warre, Full many a bloudy dede was done; And many a lord that came full farre, There caughte his bane (alas) to sone.

Surrey. Louer comforteth himself.

What, if my house be troubled with a rat,
And I be pleased to give ten thousand ducates
To have it bain'd?—Shakesp. Merch. of Ven. Act iv. sc. 1,
Before mine eyes in opposition sits

Grim Death my son and foe, who sets them on,
And me his parent would full soon devour
For want of other prey, but that he knows
His end with mine involv'd; and knows that I
Should prove a bitter morsel, and his bane,
Whenever that shall be.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii.
Achilles banefull wrath resound, O goddesse, that impos'd
Infinite sorrowes on the Greekes, and many brave soules
los'd

From breasts heroique.-Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. i.

Thy sins are of so baneful a nature that they poison even the blood of Christ unto thee; and whilst the heavenly meat is in thy mouth, even the body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is meat indeed for a believing soul, the curse of God cometh upon thee.-Hopkins. Works, p. 229.

He learns how stocks will fall and rise;
Holds poverty the greatest vice;
Thinks wit the bane of conversation;
And says that learning spoils a nation.

Prior. The Camelion.
Then would'st thou steer where Fortune spreads the sails?
Go, flatter Vice! for seldom flattery fails
Soft through the ear the pleasing bane distils :
Delicious poison! in perfumes it kills!

Broome. An Epistle to Mr. Fenton.

Beneath the gloomy covert of a yew
That taints the grass with sickly sweats of dew;
No verdant beauty entertains the sight,
But baneful hemlock, and cold aconite.

Garth. The Dispensary, c. 2.

When it is now clear beyond all dispute, that the criminal is no longer fit to live upon the earth, but is to be exterminated as a monster, and a bane to human society, the law sets a note of infamy upon him, and puts him out of its protection. Blackstone. Commentary, b. iv. c. 29.

A wicked example, as we all know, tends to corrupt in some degree every one that lives within its baneful influence; more particularly if it be found in men of high rank, great wealth, splendid talents, profound erudition, or popular characters.-Porteus, vol. ii. Lect. 16.

BANG, v. Dut. Bengeler, to beat with BANG, 7. sticks, clubs; Sw. Bana, to strike. To beat or strike, to hit hard; to give repeated, heavy blows.

You should then haue accosted her, and with some excellent iests, fire-new from the mint, you should haue bangd the youth into dumbenesse.

Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, Act iii. sc. 2.
Or if a bear, opprest

With cruel hunger, happn'd to molest
His feeding flocks, he with such bangs him ply'd,
That with the prey even in his teeth he dy'd.

Drayton. David & Goliah.

With many a stiff thwack, many a bang,
Hard crab-tree and old iron rang,
While none that saw them could divine
To which side conquest would incline.

Hudibras, pt. i. c. 2. But, dear Mr. Bickerstaff, convince 'em, that as harsh and irregular sound is not harmony; so neither is banging a cushion, oratory.-Tatler, No. 70.

The first bout they had was so fair, and so handsome,
That to make a fair bargain, 'twas worth a king's ransom;
And Sutton such bangs to his neighbour imparted,
Would have made any fibres but Figg's to have smarted.
Byrom. Extempore l'erses.

BA'NISH.

BA'NISHER. BA'NISHMENT. BANNITION.

Fr. Bannur; It. Bandire Sp. Banido. (See To BAN.) Sax. Forbæned, a banished man, (Somner.)

To forbid, to prohibit, to interdict, (sc.) from any place, from staying or remaining in it; to order, command, condemn to leave, or quit any place; to expel or drive away, to exile.

This is thy mortal fo, this is Arcite,
That fro thy lond is banished on his hed,
For which he hath deserved to be ded.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale. v. 1728.

Than faire Phebus, lantern and lamp of light,
Of man and beest, both fruit and florishing,
Tender norice, and banisher of night.-Id. Test. of Creseide.

Whan an vncleane spirite (he) goeth out from a man, beyng banyshed from his olde hospitall, he walketh in dry and baren places, seking rest and fyndeth none. Udal. Mat. c. 12.

For I am not ignoraunt, that vnto the which measure their felicity by the pleasures of this life, banyshment is more paynfully greuous than deathe.-Id. James, c. 1.

Marius then fetching a deep sigh from his heart, gave him this answer: thou shalt tell Sextilius, that thou hast seen Caius Marius banished out of his countrey, sitting amongst the ruines of the city of Carthage.-North. Plutarch, p. 367.

Now this extremity,

Hath brought me to thy harth, not out of hope (Mistake me not) to saue my life: for if

I had fear'd death, of all the men i' the world

I would haue voided thee. But in mere spight

To be full quit of those my banishers,

Stand I before thee here.-Shakes. Coriolanus, Activ. sc. 5.

Hast thee, and from the paradise of God
Without remorse drive out the sinful pair,
From hallowd ground th' unholie, and denounce
To them and to thir progenie from thence
Perpetual banishment.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. xi.

They refused to do it [take the oath] and were upon that condemned to perpetual banishment, as men that denied allegiance to the king. And by this an engine was found out to banish as many as they pleased.

Burnet. Own Time, an. 1662.

The civil death commenced, if any man was banished or abjured the realm by the process of the common law, or entered into religion; that is, went into a monastery, and became there a monk professed.-Blackstone. Com. b.i. c. 1.

Think, says Epictetus, frequently on poverty, banishment,

And thef biheelden an hauene that hadde a watir bank into which thei thoughten, if thei myghten, to brynge up the schip.-Wiclif. Dedis, c. 27.

When it was day, they knewe not the lande, but they spyed a certayne hauen with a bancke into the which they were mynded (if it were possible) to thrust in the ship. Bible, 1551. Ib.

The place, where as he them sighe,
It was vnder a banke, nighe

The great see, and he aboue
Stode and behelde the lusty loue,
Whiche eche of them till other made,

With goodly chere and wordes glade.-Gower. Con. 4. b. ii. Nor so fercely doth ouerflow the feldes The foming flood, that brekes out of his bankes: Whose rage of waters beares away what heapes Stand in his way, the coates, and eke the herdes. Surrey. Virgile. Enæis, b. ii. Haue I not heard these islanders shout out Viue le Roy, as I haue bankd their townes. Shakespeare. King John, Act v. sc. 2. That the nether end of the cut be set into the ground, and namely, that part alwaies which grew next the root, and last of all, that they be banked well with earth about the place where they spring and bud forth, untill such time as the plant have gotten strength.

Holland. Plinie, b. xvii. c. 17.

That straine agen, it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my eare, like the sweet sound
That breathes upon a banke of violets;
Stealing, and giuing odour.

Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, Act i. sc. 1.

One of them dates his letter to me from the banks of a purling stream, where he used to ruminate in solitude upon the divine Clarissa, and where he is now looking about for a convenient leap, which he tells me he is resolved to take, unless I support him under the loss of that charming perjured woman.-Tatler, No. 146.

Is it owing to Christianity, or to the want of it, that the banks of the Nile, whose constantly renewed fertility is not to be impaired by neglect, or destroyed by the ravages of war, serve only for the scene of a ferocious anarchy, or for the supply of unceasing hostilities?

Paley. Evidences of Christianily, pt. iii. c. 7.

BANK, v. See the preceding word, BANK, n. to BANK. In this applicaBANKER. tion, to bank is to place or BANKRUPT, V. deposit money in a bank.BANKRUPT, n. Bankrupt. Fr. Banqueroute; BANKRUPT, adj. It. Bancarotta; Sp. BancáBANKRUPTCY. roto. In the Mid. Lat. RupBANKEROUT, v. tus, and Ruptura are used; BA'NKEROUT, n. as we use bankrupt and bankruptcy. See Du Cange; also the quotation from Blackstone.

Bankrupt is from the Lat. Bancus; Fr.

or give up thy heart to mean sentiments.

Johnson. Rambler, No. 17.

As I have your express orders not to restore any person who has been sentenced to banishment either by myself or others; so I have no directions with respect to those, who, having been banished by some of my predecessors in this government, have by them also been restored.

Melmoth. Pliny, b. x. Let. 64. Every professor (shall) continue in his office during life, unless in case of such misbehaviour as shall amount to bannition by the university statutes. Blackstone. Com. Introd. § 1. BANK, v. Fr. Banc; It. Banco; Sp. BANK, n. Banco; Dan. and Dut. Bancke. According to some, says Junius, from the Danish Banke, to beat, to strike, because they are constantly beaten against by the waves of the sea. Cotgrave says,-Banc, a long shole, shelf or sandy hill in the sea, against which the waves do break. Skinner is content with A. S. Banc, tumulus. Wachter has-Banc, a hill, mound, heap, and any eminent or rising place. It is transferred, he adds, to all eminent or rising places for sitting or lying. And it may thus be applied to

Any thing raised by, or to confine, a current of water; to the seat raised from the bottom of the boat; to the raised table or counter of merchants, traders, money-changers.

To Bank, is to confine, or surround with banks; to throw up embankments. In the citation from Shakespeare, Mr. Stevens suggests, that to bank, may mean, to sail along the banks.

The dikes were fulle wide that closed the castelle about & depe on ilk a side, with bankes hic without. R. Brunne, p. 162.

man; and ruptus, broken; and thus denoting one whose bench or table is broken.

But natheles I toke unto our dame,
Your wif at home, the same gold again
Upon your benche, she wote it wel certain,
By certain tokenes that I can hire tell.

Chaucer. The Shipmannes Tale, v. 13,289. And yet that same very pointe ought to haue quickened the to some actiuitie in bestyrryng thee to haue deliuered foorth my money to the kepers of the banke. Udal. Luke, c. 19. He hadde openly preached in the temple, he had ouerthrowen the bankers tables, and drieuen them oute of the temple too. Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1385.

And such banke rouptes be these men of that good zeale. that gape after the spoyle of the spirituality, which whan they haue wasted and missespent their own, woulde than very faine saue for hanging robbe spirituall and temporall to. Id. p. 881.

And so gatherynge a greate armye of valyaunt capiteyns

of all nacions, some banqueroutes, &c. whiche leauynge their bodely laboure desyrynge only to lyue of robbery and rapine, came to be his seruantes and souldioures.

Hall. Hen. VII. an. 11.

Although the events of prudence are out of our power, yet the endeavours and the observation, the diligence and caution, the moral part of it, and the plain conduct of our things which God will demand in proportion to the talent necessary duty, (which are portions of this grace,) are such

which he hath intrusted into our banks.

Bp. Taylor, vol. ii. Ser. 20.

He caused a banker, for unfaithful handling and exchang of mony, to leese both his hands, and to have them nailed fast unto his owne shop bourd.-Holland. Suetonius, p. 214. The minde shall banquet, though the body pine, Fat paunches haue leane pates; and dainty bits, Make rich the ribs, but bankerout the wits.

Shakespeare. Love's Labour Lost, Act i. sc. 1.

Adri. As if time were in debt: how fondly do'st tho reason?

S. Dro. Time is a verie bankerout, and owes more then he' worth to season.-Shakes. Comedy of Errors, Activ. sc. 2.

Unless we had rather think both moral and judicial, ful of malice and deadly purpose, conspired to let the debto Israelite, the seed of Abraham, run on upon a bankrout score flatter'd with insufficient and ensnaring discharges. Milion. Doct. & Disc. of Divorc

Gonz. There's the quintessence, The soul, and grand elixir of my wit, For he (according to his noble nature) Will not be known to want though he do want, And will be bankrupted so much the sooner, And made the subject of our scorn and laughter. Beaum. & Fletch. The Laws of Candy, Act iii. sc. Canst thou by sickness banish beauty so, Which if put from thee, knows not where to go To make her shift, and for her succour seek To every rivel'd face, each bankrupt cheek?

Drayton. H. Howard to Geraldi

I do hereby forbid all dedications to all persons within t city of London, except Sir Francis, Sir Stephen, and t bank, will take epigrams and epistles as value receiv'd their notes.-Tatler, No. 43.

Truman was better acquainted with his master's affa than his daughter, and secretly lamented, that each brought him by many miscarriages nearer bankruptcy th the former.-Id. No. 213.

Had every particular banking company always understo and attended to its own particular interest, the circulat never could have been overstocked with paper money. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. ii. c

Or, at some banker's desk, like many more,
Content to tell that two and two make four,
His name had stood in city annals fair,
And prudent dulness mark'd him for a mayor.

Churchill. The Rose

A bankrupt [is] defined, "a trader, who secretes hims or does certain other acts, tending to defraud his credito Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c.

By attempting to increase, we diminish them; the m becomes bankrupt under too large obligations; all additi benefits lessen every hope of future return, and shu every avenue that leads to tenderness.

Goldsmith. Citizen of the Wo

Here is again discovered the inhabitant of Cheap whose head cannot keep his poetry unmingled with t To hinder that intellectual bankruptcy which he affect fear, he will erect a bank for wit.

BANNER. BANNERED. BANNERET. BANNEROL.

Johnson. Life of Blackn

Dut. Baniere; Fr. Banni Ger. Bannier; It. Banda, I diera; Sw. Baner. In A. S. E segn is the ensign, or ban Watcher derives it from C. B. Bann, excel Ihre and Lye from Banduo, signum; Bandi significare. The banner, band-roll, or ban-sign perhaps, merely

The bond-roll, or bond-sign, the sign of un the flag or standard under which men are un or bound for some common purpose.

Banneret A small banner; also, the pe bearing it.

Constantyne this vnderstod. hethene thai he were,
A crois, in stude of ys baner, ys men bi fore hym be
R. Gloucester,

Almerle his banere sprad, & other barons mo,
Mikelle blod thei schad of folk that thei gon slo.
R. Brunne, I

Tho bannerettis ilkone fro Douer to Durham ware.
Id. I

The red statue of Mars with spere and targe
So shineth in his white banner large,
That all the feldes gliteren up and doun.
Chaucer. The Knightes Tale,
If she be fresshe, and well araied,
He saith hir baner is displaied.

To clepe in guestes by the weie.-Gower. Con. A. t And surely to tel you the trouth, this is his verye intent and purpose, and the very mark that he shotet! a special pointe and foundacion of all Luther's he wherof thys man is one of the baner berers. Sir T. More. Workes, The king and the queene his mother, with the adui consent of the kinge's counsaile, sent a bishop ar knightes banerettes, with two notable clerkes, to sir Heynault, praiyng him to be a meane that theyr lor yong king of England, might haue in mariage they daughter of the erle of Henault his brother, named Grafton. Edw. IIl