Definition of band

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Band (v. t.) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress..

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Accipiter :: Accipiter (n.) A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk..
Spica :: Spica (n.) A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley..
Immobilize :: Immobilize (v. t.) To make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages..
Fall :: Fall (n.) Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule..
Miquelet :: Miquelet (n.) An irregular or partisan soldier; a bandit.
Ring :: Ring (n.) An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of Sporangium.
Husband :: Husband (v. t.) To furnish with a husband.
Dead-eye :: Dead-eye (n.) A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard; -- used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes. Called also deadman's eye..
Drum Major :: Drum major () The marching leader of a military band.
Saddlebags :: Saddlebags (n. pl.) Bags, usually of leather, united by straps or a band, formerly much used by horseback riders to carry small articles, one bag hanging on each side..
Vacuna :: Vacuna (n.) The goddess of rural leisure, to whom the husbandmen sacrificed at the close of the harvest. She was especially honored by the Sabines..
Boor :: Boor (n.) A husbandman; a peasant; a rustic; esp. a clownish or unrefined countryman.
Saxhorn :: Saxhorn (n.) A name given to a numerous family of brass wind instruments with valves, invented by Antoine Joseph Adolphe Sax (known as Adolphe Sax), of Belgium and Paris, and much used in military bands and in orchestras..
Widow :: Widow (v. t.) To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle.
Horse :: Horse (a.) A breastband for a leadsman.
Bellyband :: Bellyband (n.) A band that passes under the belly of a horse and holds the saddle or harness in place; a girth.
Garth :: Garth (n.) A hoop or band.
Ploughbote :: Ploughbote (n.) Wood or timber allowed to a tenant for the repair of instruments of husbandry. See Bote.
Tortrix :: Tortrix (n.) A genus of tropical short-tailed snakes, which are not venomous. One species (Tortrix scytalae) is handsomely banded with black, and is sometimes worn alive by the natives of Brazil for a necklace..
Riband :: Riband (n.) See Ribbon.
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