·noun A proclamation, as of the French kings, calling not only their immediate feudatories, but the vassals of these feudatories, to take the field for war; also, the body of vassals called or liable to be called to arms, as in ancient France.
·noun "That which is behind"; the rear; — chiefly used as an adjective in the sense of behind, rear...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun A curse or anathema. II. Ban ·noun An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription. III. Ban ·...
to curse; from the Saxon. N. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
fire of the sun ...
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
a walnut-tree. Glo. ...