noun.
A slayer or murderer; a worker of death, as a man or an animal.
noun.
That which causes death or destroys life; especially, poison of a deadly quality.
noun.
Hence Any fatal cause of mischief, injury, or destruction: as, vice is the bane of society.
noun.
Ruin; destruction.
noun.
Death: usually with such verbs as catch, get, take: as, to catch one's bane.
noun.
A disease in sheep, more commonly called the rot.
noun.
Scotch form of bone.
An obsolete form of bain.
An obsolete form of bain.
noun.
An obsolete form of ban, especially in plural banes, now banns (which see).
To kill; poison.
To injure; ruin.