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A flat strip of any material, but especially of a flexible material, used to bind round anything; a fillet: as, a rubber band; a band around the head; a hat-band.
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Anything resembling a band in form or function.
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The form of collar commonly worn by men and women in the seventeenth century in western Europe.
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The linen ornament worn about the neck, with the ends hanging down in front, by certain Protestant clergymen.
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In mining, a layer of rock interstratified with the coal; sometimes, as in Cumberland, England, the coal itself.
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A company of persons, especially a body of armed men; a company of soldiers, or of persons united for any purpose.
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In music, a company of musicians playing various instruments in combination, in the manner of an orchestra: most frequently applied to a company of musicians playing such instruments as may be used in marching.
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A collection of animals of any kind, as a drove of cattle or horses, or a flock of sheep.
To unite in a troop, company, or confederacy: generally reflexive.
To unite; associate; confederate for some common purpose.
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A ridge of a hill: commonly applied in the English lake district to a long ridge-like hill of minor height, or to a long narrow sloping offshoot from a higher hill or mountain.
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An obsolete or Scotch preterit of bind.
To interdict; banish.
Same as bandy.
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A weight equal to about 2 ounces troy, in use in western Africa for weighing gold-dust.
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In botany, the band-like space between the two mericarps of a cremocarp.
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Anything which binds the person or the limbs, and serves to restrain or to deprive of liberty; a shackle, manacle, or fetter: usually in the plural.
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That by which loose things of the same or a similar kind are bound together.
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That which connects; a connecting piece, or means of connection; that which connects or unites the several parts of a complex thing.
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Specifically— In logic, the copula.
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The metallic sleeve which binds the barrel and stock of a musket together.
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One of two pieces of iron fastened to the bows of a saddle to keep them in place.