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BANDEBO'LE, a Pr. term meaning a nar- 

 row flag or streamer, used in heraldry to 

 denote the streamer affixed under the 

 crook of a crosier and folding over the 

 staff. 



BAND'OHE, Sp. bandurria. A musical- 

 Stringed instrument resembling the lute. 



BANDBOL, a little flag or streamer af- 

 fixed to the top of masts, from banderols 

 (q. v.). 



BANGUE, an opiate much used through- 

 out the east to produce intoxication. It 

 is obtained in several ways, from a kind 

 of hemp. The Persians call it beng. 



BANIANS, a name formerly given by 

 Eur^eans to all Hindus, because baniya, 

 the term whence it is derived, signifies a 

 banker, the class with which Europeans 

 ha-? most fiequent intercourse. Banian 

 is ith us th.> name of a sort of morning 

 di-iss resembling the loose gown worn by 

 th-. Banians of India. The banian-days 

 of the sailors are those upon which no 

 flesh meat is allowed, also borrowed from 

 thi habits of the Banians, who, being 

 xritempsychosists, refrain not only from 

 eattr.g flesh, but even from killing noxious 



BAH'IAN-TBEE, \ the Indian-fig or God- 



BAN'YAN-TBEE, ) tree, the (Ficuslndica). 

 Tie branches of this famous tree descend, 

 take root, and are in time converted into 

 great trunks, so that a single tree, with 

 aU its props and stems, may cover a space 

 cf 2000 feet circumference. 



BANK. 1. In carpentt-y, a piece of fir- 

 wood unslit of about six inches square, and 

 of any length. - 2. In nautical language, 

 a bench of rowers in a galley, so called 

 from their seat, bench and bank being ra- 

 dically the same word. - 3. In com- 

 merce, an establishment for the custody 

 and issue of money. Sank for savings, a 

 bank established for the receipt of small 

 sums deposited by the poorer class, and 

 fcr their accumulation at compound in- 

 terest. 



BANK-CKEDITS are credits peculiar to 

 Scottish banking, by which, on proper se- 

 curity being given to the bank, a person 

 is entitled to draw money to the extent 

 agreed upon. 



BANK'EB. 1. Among masa*.}, the stone 

 bench on which they cut and square their 

 work. - 2. Among seamen, a vessel em- 

 ployed in the cod-fishery, on the banks of 



Newfoundland. 



3. The individual who 



lenders of Italy, which were broken in 

 case of their failure. No person but a 

 trader can be a bankrupt. 



BANK'SIA, a very extensive genus of 

 greenhouse shrubs, natives of New Hol- 

 land. 



BAN'LIEUE, Fr. The territory without 

 the walls, but comprised within the legal 

 limits of the city. 



BAN'NBB. 1. In military lang-^age, the co- 

 lours, or square standard. 2. Inb&ianu, 



the upper large petal of a papilionaceous 

 flower. 



The origin of this term, which occurs 



in all modern languages of Western 



Europe, is, perhaps, the Persian band, a 



standard, from bandan, to bind. Qu. 



Goth, bannan, to summon, proclaim ? 



BAN'NEHET, a knight made on the field, 

 with the ceremony of cutting off the 

 point of Ms standard, and making it a 

 square. The custom is obsolete. He was 

 then called a knight of the square flag, 

 and held a rank between a baron and sim- 

 ple knight. 



BAN'CIUET, BANQUETTE. 1. The footpath 



of a bridge. 2. The elevation of earth 



behind a parapet, on which the garrison 

 of a fortress may stand in order to fire 

 upon an approaching enemy. 



BAN'SHEE, BAN SHI, an Irish fairy. 



BAN'STICKLE, a small fish called also 

 stickle-back, and bantickle in some paru of 

 Scotland. 



BAN'YAN, a kind of Indian fig, forming 

 a very large tree, which sends down roots 

 from its branches, which in their turn 

 become trunks, and prop the extending 

 branches. 



BAPHOMET, the imaginary symbol which 

 he Templars were accused of employing 

 in their mysterious rites. 



BAP'TISTERT. In architecture, a building 

 destined for the purpose of administering 

 "ie rite of baptism. 



BAP'TISTS, a protestant sect, distin- 

 guished by opinions regarding the mode 

 md subjects of baptism. As to the mode, 

 the Baptists maintain the necessity of im- 

 mersion, from the literal translation ot 

 the word jBotVTiu ; and the subjects, they 

 maintain, should only be those who pro- 

 " ss repentance and faith. Hence, they 

 are often called antiptsdobaptists, because 

 hey consider infants unfit subjects for 

 baptism. 



BAR, literally that which obstructs. 



manages a bank, or who carries on the In law-courts, an inclosure made with a 



business 



BANK'ET 



wood of about eight inches square, and 

 nine feet in length, on which to cut the 



In bricklaying, a piece of 



bricks. 



BANK'RUPTCY, the state of an insolvent 



trong partition of timber, three or four 

 feet high, where the counsel are placed 

 to plead causes. Hence, lawyers licensed 

 to plead, are called barristers. The benche* 



here the lawyers are seated are also 

 called bars, and the lawyers themselves 



merchant. From bancut, a bench (whence are collectively called the bar. A. trial at 

 bank), and ruptus, broken, in alluaion to Ibar is a trial at the courts of Westmin- 

 the benches formerly used by the money- I ster, in distinction to a trial at i-riut, 



