An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 43
/An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 43
_A. Douglas._
BAND (To take), to unite; a phrase borrowed from architecture.
_Rutherford._
BAND, _s._ Bond, obligation, S.
_Wyntown._
_To mak band_, to come under obligation, to swear allegiance.
_Wallace._
BAND _of a hill_. The top or summit.
_Douglas._
Germ. _bann_, summitas, Gael. _ben_.
BANDKYN, _s._ A cloth, the warp of which is thread of gold, and the woof silk, adorned with figures.
_Douglas._
L. B. _bandequin-us_.
BANDOUNE, BANDOWN, _s._ Command, orders.
V. ~Abandon~.
_Wallace._
Germ. _band_, a standard.
BANDOUNLY, _adv._ Firmly, courageously.
_Wallace._
BANDSTER, BANSTER, _s._ One who binds sheaves after the reapers in the harvest-field, S.
_Ritson._
A. S. Germ. _band_, vinculum.
BANE, _s._ Bone, S.
_Wyntown._
A. S. _ban_, Alem. _bein_, id.
BANE, _King of Bane_, the same with _King of the Bean_, a character in the Christmas gambols. This designation is given to the person who is so fortunate as to receive that part of a divided cake which has a _bean_ in it; _Rex fabae_.
_Knox._
BANE-FYER, _s._ A bonfire, S.
_Acts Ja. VI._
Apparently corrupted from ~Bail-fire~.
BANEOUR, BANNEOURE, _s._ A standard-bearer.
_Barbour._
BANERER, _s._ Properly, one who exhibits his own distinctive standard in the field, q. "the lord of a standard."
_Douglas._
Teut. _bander-heer_, _baner-heer_, baro, satrapa.
BANERMAN, _s._ A standard-bearer.
_Wallace._
Su. G. _banersman_, vexillifer.
BANES-BRAKIN, _s._ A b.l.o.o.d.y quarrel, "the breaking of bones," S.
_Poems Buchan Dial._
_To_ BANG, _v. n._ To change place with impetuosity; as, to _bang up_, to start from ones seat or bed; _to bang to the dore_, to run hastily to the door, S.
_Ramsay._