BPage 38
- English Word Bamboo Definition To flog with the bamboo.
- English Word Bamboozle Definition To deceive by trickery; to cajole by confusing the senses; to hoax; to mystify; to humbug.
- English Word Bamboozled Definition of Bamboozle
- English Word Bamboozler Definition A swindler; one who deceives by trickery.
- English Word Bamboozling Definition of Bamboozle
- English Word Ban Definition A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.
- English Word Ban Definition A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army.
- English Word Ban Definition Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense).
- English Word Ban Definition An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription.
- English Word Ban Definition A curse or anathema.
- English Word Ban Definition A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
- English Word Ban Definition To curse; to invoke evil upon.
- English Word Ban Definition To forbid; to interdict.
- English Word Ban Definition To curse; to swear.
- English Word Ban Definition An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia.
- English Word Banal Definition Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.
- English Word Banalities Definition of Banality
- English Word Banality Definition Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech.
- English Word Banana Definition A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.
- English Word Banat Definition The territory governed by a ban.