Band (v. t.) A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or confined |
Band (v. t.) A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of color, or of brickwork, etc. |
Band (v. t.) In Gothic architecture, the molding, or suite of moldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts. |
Band (v. t.) That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons |
Band (v. t.) A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries. |
Band (v. t.) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress. |
Band (v. t.) A narrow strip of cloth or other material on any article of dress, to bind, strengthen, ornament, or complete it. |
Band (v. t.) A company of persons united in any common design, especially a body of armed men. |
Band (v. t.) A number of musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc.), and drums, or cymbals. |
Band (v. t.) A space between elevated lines or ribs, as of the fruits of umbelliferous plants. |
Band (v. t.) A stripe, streak, or other mark transverse to the axis of the body. |
Band (v. t.) A belt or strap. |
Band (v. t.) A bond |
Band (v. t.) Pledge |
Band (v. t.) To bind or tie with a band. |
Band (v. t.) To mark with a band. |
Band (v. t.) To unite in a troop, company, or confederacy. |
Band (v. i.) To confederate for some common purpose |
Band (v. t.) To bandy |
Band () imp. of Bind. |
Band fish () A small red fish of the genus Cepola |
Bed rock () The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig. |
Reef-band (n.) A piece of canvas sewed across a sail to strengthen it in the part where the eyelet holes for reefing are made. |
Rock (n.) See Roc. |
Rock (n.) A distaff used in spinning |
Rock (n.) A large concreted mass of stony material |
Rock (n.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds. |
Rock (n.) That which resembles a rock in firmness |
Rock (n.) Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock. |
Rock (n.) The striped bass. See under Bass. |
Rock (v. t.) To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath |
Rock (v. t.) To move as in a cradle |
Rock (v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward |
Rock (v. i.) To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support |
Rock shaft () A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines |
Rock staff (v. i.) An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge. |