·vt A bond.
II. Band ·- imp. of Bind.
III. Band ·vt A belt or strap.
IV. Band ·vt Pledge; security.
V. Band ·vt To mark with a band.
VI. Band ·vt To bind or tie with a band.
VII. Band ·vt To unite in a troop, company, or confederacy.
VIII. Band ·vt To Bandy; to drive away.
IX. Band ·vt A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
X. Band ·vt A stripe, streak, or other mark transverse to the axis of the body.
XI. Band ·vt That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
XII. Band ·vt A company of persons united in any common design, especially a body of armed men.
XIII. Band ·vt A space between elevated lines or ribs, as of the fruits of umbelliferous plants.
XIV. Band ·vi To confederate for some common purpose; to Unite; to conspire together.
XV. Band ·vt Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.
XVI. Band ·vt In Gothic architecture, the molding, or suite of moldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.
XVII. Band ·vt A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of color, or of brickwork, ·etc.
XVIII. Band ·vt A narrow strip of cloth or other material on any article of dress, to bind, strengthen, ornament, or complete it.
XIX. Band ·vt 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; a fetter.
XX. Band ·vt 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.