BAN 
their number who have thus enlided themfelves as guides 
in the fervice of fociety, are known and refpected by the 
ether banditti all over the illand; and the perfons they ac¬ 
company are ever held facred. For thefe feafons, mod 
travellers choofe to hire a couple of them from town to 
town ; and may thus travel over the whole illand in fnfety. 
BAN'DLE,'/ an Irifh meafure of two feet in length. 
B AN'DOG,/! [from ban or band, and dog. The origi¬ 
nal of this word is very doubtful. Cains, de Canibus 
Britannicis, derives it from band, that is, ‘a dog chained 
up.’ Skinner inclines to deduce it from bana, a ‘ mur¬ 
derer.’ May it not come from ban, a ‘curie,’ as we fay a 
curjl cur ; or rather from tbound, ‘ fwclled or large,’ a Da- 
nithword; from whence, in home counties, they call a 
great nut a ban nut ?~\ A kind of large dog: 
The time of night when Troy was fet on fire, 
The time when fcreech-owls cry, and bandogs howl. Shake/. 
BANDOLE'ERS. See Badtdaleers. 
BAN'DON, a river of Ireland, which empties itfelf 
into the harbour ot Kinfale, in the county of Cork. . 
B ANDONBRIDG'E, a town of Ireland, in the coun¬ 
ty of Cork, on the river Bandon. It is a borough-town, 
and fends two members to the Irifh parliament: eleven 
miles S. S.W. of Cork, and eight N.W. of Kinfale. 
B ANDO'RE,/. the name of a mufical Lnftrument with 
Brings, refembling a lute, faid to be invented in the reign 
of queen Elizabeth, by John Rofe of London. 
B AN'DROL,/. [ banderol , Fr.] A little flag or dream¬ 
er ; the little fringed filk flag that hangs on a trumpet. 
BANDT, a fmall illand in the German Ocean, near the 
coad of Eaft Friefland. Lat. 53.36.N. Ion. 24.19.E. Ferro. 
B ANDU'RI (Anfelm), an Italian Benediidine friar, emi¬ 
nent as an antiquarian and critic. He died in 1743. 
BAN'DY,/i [from bander, Fr. ] A club turned round 
at the bottom, for driking a ball at play. 
To Bandy, v.a. [probably from bandy, the inflrument 
with which they flrike balls at play, which, being crook¬ 
ed, is named from the term bander-, as, bander un arc, ‘to 
Bring or bend a bow.’] To beat to and fro, or from one to 
another.—They do cunningly, from one hand to another, 
bandy the fervice like a tennis-ball. SpenJ'er. 
What vigorous arm, what repercuflive blow, 
Bandies the mighty globe dill too. and fro ? B'.achmore. 
To exchange; to give and take reciprocally. To agitate; 
to tofs about.—Ever fince men have been united into go¬ 
vernments, the endeavours after univerfal monarchy have 
been bandied among them. Swift. —Let not obvious and 
known truth, or fome of the mod plain and certain propo- 
Btions, be bandied about in a deputation. V/atts. 
To Bandy, v. n. To contend, as at fome game, in which 
each drives to drive the ball his own way: 
A valiant fon-in-law thou (halt enjoy: 
One fit to bandy with thy lawlefs ions, 
To ruffle in the commonwealth. Shakefpcare. 
B AN'DYLEG, f [from bander, Fr. ] A crocked leg. 
B AN'DY LEGGED, adj. Having crooked legs.—The 
Ethiopians had an one-eyed bandylegged prince ; fuch a per- 
fon would have made but an odd figure. Collier. 
BANE,/. \_bana, Sax. a murderer. ] Poifon : 
Thus am 1 doubly arm’d ; my death and life, 
My bane and antidote, are both before me ; 
This, in a moment, brings me to an end ; 
But that informs me I Ihall never die. Addifon. 
That which defiroys ; mifehief; ruin.—Infolency mud be 
rfeprefl, or it will be the bane of the Chriftian religion. Hooker. 
I will not be afraid of death and bane, 
Till Birnam fored come to Duniinane. Shakefbeare, 
Who can omit the Gracchi, who declare 
The Scipios worth, thofe thunderbolts of war, 
The double bane of Carthage J Drydcn. 
TV Bane, v.a. To poifon; 
BAN H6j 
What if my houfe be troubled witli a rat, 
And I be pleas’d to give ten thoufancLdUcats 
To have it bail’d? Shakefpcare. 
Bane-Berry, f. in botany. See Act^ea. 
BANE'E, a fmall illand of France, near the Englifh 
Channel, about a league fouth-wed of Uihant. 
B A'NEFUL, adj. [from bane full ] Poiionous; de¬ 
finitive : 
The nightly wolf is baneful to the fold, 
Storms to the wheat, to buds the bitter cold. Dryden. 
B A'NEFULNESS,/. Poifonoufnefs ; dedructivenefs. 
BANFF. See Bamff. 
To BANG, ». a. [w^a/ft!, Dut.] To beat; to thump ; 
to cudgel : a low andfamiliar word.— Formerly I was to be 
banged becaufe I was too drong, and now becaufe I am’too 
weak to refid. Arbuthnol. —To handle roughly; to treat 
with violence, in general : 
The defperate temped hath fo bang'd the Turks, 
That their defignment halts. Shakefpcare. 
Ban G,f. A blow ; a thump ; a Broke : a low word .— 
I am a bachelor.—That’s to lay, they are fools that mar¬ 
ry; you’ll bear me a bang for that. Shakefpcare. 
BAN'G-A, a town of Africa, in the country of Whi- 
dah, on the Slave Coad. 
B ANGALO'RE, a fortified town of Hindodan, and one 
of the dronged holds of Tippoo Saib, in the Myfore coun¬ 
try. It was taken by the army under the marquis Corn¬ 
wallis, after a mod obftinate relidance, on March 22, 1791. 
The garrifon confided of about 3000 men, upwards of 
1500 of whom were killed on the fpot. The venerable 
killedar, Bahauder Khan, an old man, and nearly related 
to Tippoo, with feveral principal officers, fell in the donn¬ 
ing of«the fort, which took place at midnight, directed by 
a blaze of artificial light from fire-balls and rockets, and 
which exhibited a dreadful feene of carnage and (laughter. 
The fort is nearly oval, with two gates covered by out¬ 
works, but without a drawbridge; one to the fouth-wed, 
called the Sermgapatarn-gate : the other, Oofcotrah,'to the 
eadward. It is irregularly built, about a mile and three- 
quarters in circumference, with fmall round ballions at 
the didance of fifty or (ixty yards, containing three guns 
each. Six lofty cavaliers in different parts, mounting ten 
guns, command the fort and the adjacent country; the 
rampart is fufficiently broad to admit of the heaviedguns 
being fired from the curtains; and the ditch, except in two 
places where it is covered by outworks, is deep and broad. 
The faude-braye is wide, and the covert-way very judi- 
ciouily condrutled ; but the glacis, as is ufual in Indian 
forts, is too deep. More than 100 pieces of cannon were 
taken, with great quantities of ammunition and military 
dores. All accounts concur in admiring the extent and 
magnificence of Tippoo’s palace in this town, and the plan¬ 
tation and difpofition of its garden ; exact architecture or 
elegance could not be looked for, but much more of both 
was found than could have been expeffed. In the exten- 
five chambers of the palace were a rich profufion of car¬ 
pets, hangings, and filks, gilded and fluted pillars, and 
walls and ceilings painted and burnidted ; and, in the gar¬ 
den, walks and pieces of water well difpofed, and planted 
with lofty and (hady avenues, and fruit and flowers in great 
abundance. But a dill more important proof of the rapid 
Brides the former mader of Bangalore, Hyder Ali, was 
making in ufeful improvements, was the date of the foun- 
dery for cannon and iron-works, which he carried on there 
in high perfection, and to a great extent. For the many 
intereding and arduous events of the war in India, fee 
England and Hindostan. Bangalore was redored to 
Tippoo at the peace concluded in 1792. It is fifty-eight 
miles north-ead of Seringapatam. Lat. 12. 58. N. Ion. 
77. 46. E. Greenwich. 
BAN'GIUS (Thomas), a Danifli divine, and an elegant 
Latin writer on the origin of languages and a variety of 
other lubjedts, He died in 1661. 
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