Band Aid
         n 1: trade name for an adhesive bandage to cover small cuts or
               blisters
         2: hurried repair [syn: {band aid}, {quick fix}, {quickie},
            {quicky}]

English Dictionary: banded rattlesnake	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
banded adj identified with a band especially around a leg; "kept watch for the return of their banded birds" Antonym(s): unbanded marked with bands or strips of contrasting color or texture; "a banded rock" characterized by a band of especially white around the body; "banded cattle"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
banded adder n sluggish krait banded with black and yellow [syn: {banded krait}, banded adder, Bungarus fasciatus]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
banded anteater n small Australian marsupial having long snout and strong claws for feeding on termites; nearly extinct Synonym(s): numbat, banded anteater, anteater, Myrmecobius fasciatus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
banded gecko n any of several geckos with dark bands across the body and differing from typical geckos in having movable eyelids; of United States southwest and Florida Gulf Coast
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
banded krait n sluggish krait banded with black and yellow [syn: {banded krait}, banded adder, Bungarus fasciatus]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
banded palm civet n an East Indian civet [syn: banded palm civet, {Hemigalus hardwickii}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
banded purple n North American butterfly with blue-black wings crossed by a broad white band Synonym(s): banded purple, white admiral, Limenitis arthemis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
banded rattlesnake n widely distributed in rugged ground of eastern United States Synonym(s): timber rattlesnake, banded rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus horridus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
banded rudderfish n fish having the habit of following ships; found in North American and South American coastal waters Synonym(s): rudderfish, banded rudderfish, Seriola zonata
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
banded sand snake n a sand snake of southwestern United States; lives in fine to coarse sand or loamy soil in which it `swims'; banding resembles that of coral snakes Synonym(s): banded sand snake, Chilomeniscus cinctus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
banded stilt n web-footed Australian stilt with reddish-brown pectoral markings Synonym(s): banded stilt, Cladorhyncus leucocephalum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
banded water snake n in some classifications placed in the genus Nerodia; western United States snake that seldom ventures far from water Synonym(s): common water snake, banded water snake, Natrix sipedon, Nerodia sipedon
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bandit n an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band [syn: bandit, brigand]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
banditry n the practice of plundering in gangs
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bandwidth n a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Bantoid adj relating to or designating languages that possess characteristics of Bantu; "Bantoid languages"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Bantoid language n a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent Synonym(s): Bantu, Bantoid language
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bended adj used of the back and knees; stooped; "on bended knee"; "with bent (or bended) back" Synonym(s): bended, bent
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bendy tree n pantropical tree of usually seacoasts sometimes cultivated as an ornamental for its rounded heart-shaped leaves and showy yellow and purple flowers; yields valuable pink to dark red close-grained wood and oil from its seeds Synonym(s): portia tree, bendy tree, seaside mahoe, Thespesia populnea
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Benedetto Caetani n pope who declared that Catholic princes are subject to the pope in temporal as well as in theological matters (1235-1303) Synonym(s): Boniface VIII, Benedetto Caetani
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Benedetto Odescalchi n Italian pope from 1676 to 1689 whose papacy was marked by the struggle with Louis XIV of France over papal authority over French Catholics; known for saintliness and canonized in 1956 (1611-1689) Synonym(s): Innocent XI, Benedetto Odescalchi
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Bennettitaceae n a family of fossil gymnospermous plants of the Carboniferous Synonym(s): Bennettitaceae, family Bennettitaceae
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Bennettitales n fossil gymnospermous plants of the Carboniferous [syn: Bennettitales, order Bennettitales]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Bennettitis n type of the Bennettitales [syn: Bennettitis, {genus Bennettitis}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bentwood n wood that is steamed until it becomes pliable and then is shaped for use in making furniture; "bentwood chairs"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
beyond a doubt adv in a manner or to a degree that could not be doubted; "it was immediately and indubitably apparent that I had interrupted a scene of lovers"; "his guilt was established beyond a shadow of a doubt" Synonym(s): indubitably, beyond doubt, beyond a doubt, beyond a shadow of a doubt
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bindweed n any of several vines of the genera Convolvulus and Calystegia having a twining habit
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bonded labor n a practice in which employers give high-interest loans to workers whose entire families then labor at low wages to pay off the debt; the practice is illegal in the United States
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bone-headed dinosaur n bipedal herbivorous dinosaurs with bony crowns
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
boneheaded adj (used informally) stupid [syn: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick, thickheaded, thick-skulled, wooden-headed]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bonnethead n small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries Synonym(s): shovelhead, bonnethead, bonnet shark, Sphyrna tiburo
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bounded adj having the limits or boundaries established; "a delimited frontier through the disputed region" Synonym(s): bounded, delimited
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bounded interval n an interval that includes its endpoints [syn: {closed interval}, bounded interval] Antonym(s): open interval, unbounded interval
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
boundedness n the quality of being finite [syn: finiteness, finitude, boundedness] Antonym(s): boundlessness, infiniteness, infinitude, limitlessness, unboundedness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bountied adj rewarded or able to be rewarded by a bounty; "a bountied animal pelt"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Buccinum \[d8]Buc"ci*num\, n. [L., a trumpet, a trumpet       shell.] (Zo[94]l.)       A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic       seas. It includes the common whelk ({B. undatum}).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Band \Band\ (b[acr]nd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Banded}; p. pr. &       vb. n. {Banding}.]       1. To bind or tie with a band.          2. To mark with a band.          3. To unite in a troop, company, or confederacy. [bd]Banded             against his throne.[b8] --Milton.          {Banded architrave}, {pier}, {shaft}, etc. (Arch.), an             architrave, pier, etc., of which the regular profile is             interrupted by blocks or projections crossing it at right             angles.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Band \Band\ (b[acr]nd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Banded}; p. pr. &       vb. n. {Banding}.]       1. To bind or tie with a band.          2. To mark with a band.          3. To unite in a troop, company, or confederacy. [bd]Banded             against his throne.[b8] --Milton.          {Banded architrave}, {pier}, {shaft}, etc. (Arch.), an             architrave, pier, etc., of which the regular profile is             interrupted by blocks or projections crossing it at right             angles.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bandy \Ban"dy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bandied} ([?]); p. pr. &       vb. n. {Bandying}.]       1. To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy.                         Like tennis balls bandied and struck upon us . . .                      by rackets from without.                     --Cudworth.          2. To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. [bd]To             bandy hasty words.[b8] --Shak.          3. To toss about, as from man to man; to agitate.                         Let not obvious and known truth be bandied about in                      a disputation.                                    --I. Watts.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bandit \Ban"dit\, n.; pl. {Bandits}, [or] {Banditti}. [It.       bandito outlaw, p. p. of bandire to proclaim, to banish, to       proscribe, LL. bandire, bannire. See {Ban} an edict, and cf.       {Banish}.]       An outlaw; a brigand.                   No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. --Milton.          Note: The plural banditti was formerly used as a collective                noun.                            Deerstealers are ever a desperate banditti. --Sir                                                                               W. Scott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bandit \Ban"dit\, n.; pl. {Bandits}, [or] {Banditti}. [It.       bandito outlaw, p. p. of bandire to proclaim, to banish, to       proscribe, LL. bandire, bannire. See {Ban} an edict, and cf.       {Banish}.]       An outlaw; a brigand.                   No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. --Milton.          Note: The plural banditti was formerly used as a collective                noun.                            Deerstealers are ever a desperate banditti. --Sir                                                                               W. Scott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bandit \Ban"dit\, n.; pl. {Bandits}, [or] {Banditti}. [It.       bandito outlaw, p. p. of bandire to proclaim, to banish, to       proscribe, LL. bandire, bannire. See {Ban} an edict, and cf.       {Banish}.]       An outlaw; a brigand.                   No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. --Milton.          Note: The plural banditti was formerly used as a collective                noun.                            Deerstealers are ever a desperate banditti. --Sir                                                                               W. Scott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bayonet \Bay"o*net\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bayoneted}; p. pr. &       vb. n. {Bayoneting}.]       1. To stab with a bayonet.          2. To compel or drive by the bayonet.                         To bayonet us into submission.            --Burke.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bend \Bend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bended} or {Bent}; p. pr. &       vb. n. {Bending}.] [AS. bendan to bend, fr. bend a band,       bond, fr. bindan to bind. See {Bind}, v. t., and cf. 3d & 4th       {Bend}.]       1. To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by             straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for             use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend             the knee.          2. To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.             [bd]Bend thine ear to supplication.[b8] --Milton.                         Towards Coventry bend we our course.   --Shak.                         Bending her eyes . . . upon her parent. --Sir W.                                                                               Scott.          3. To apply closely or with interest; to direct.                         To bend his mind to any public business. --Temple.                         But when to mischief mortals bend their will.                                                                               --Pope.          4. To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.             [bd]Except she bend her humor.[b8] --Shak.          5. (Naut.) To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to             its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.             --Totten.          {To bend the brow}, to knit the brow, as in deep thought or             in anger; to scowl; to frown. --Camden.          Syn: To lean; stoop; deflect; bow; yield.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Benet \Be*net"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Benetted}.]       To catch in a net; to insnare. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bindweed \Bind"weed`\, n. (Bot.)       A plant of the genus {Convolvulus}; as, greater bindweed ({C.       Sepium}); lesser bindweed ({C. arvensis}); the white, the       blue, the Syrian, bindweed. The black bryony, or {Tamus}, is       called {black bindweed}, and the {Smilax aspera}, {rough       bindweed}.                   The fragile bindweed bells and bryony rings.                                                                               --Tennyson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Diiodide \Di*i"o*dide\ (?; 104), n. [Pref. di- + iodine.]       (Chem.)       A compound of a binary type containing two atoms of iodine;       -- called also {biniodide}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Biniodide \Bin*i"o*dide\, n.       Same as {Diiodide}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Diiodide \Di*i"o*dide\ (?; 104), n. [Pref. di- + iodine.]       (Chem.)       A compound of a binary type containing two atoms of iodine;       -- called also {biniodide}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Biniodide \Bin*i"o*dide\, n.       Same as {Diiodide}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bonded \Bond"ed\, a.       Placed under, or covered by, a bond, as for the payment of       duties, or for conformity to certain regulations.          {Bonded goods}, goods placed in a bonded warehouse; goods,             for the duties on which bonds are given at the             customhouse.          {Bonded warehouse}, a warehouse in which goods on which the             duties are unpaid are stored under bond and in the joint             custody of the importer, or his agent, and the customs             officers.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bond \Bond\ (b[ocr]nd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bonded}; p. pr. &       vb. n. {Bonding}.]       1. To place under the conditions of a bond; to mortgage; to             secure the payment of the duties on (goods or merchandise)             by giving a bond.          2. (Arch.) To dispose in building, as the materials of a             wall, so as to secure solidity.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bonded \Bond"ed\, a.       Placed under, or covered by, a bond, as for the payment of       duties, or for conformity to certain regulations.          {Bonded goods}, goods placed in a bonded warehouse; goods,             for the duties on which bonds are given at the             customhouse.          {Bonded warehouse}, a warehouse in which goods on which the             duties are unpaid are stored under bond and in the joint             custody of the importer, or his agent, and the customs             officers.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bonded \Bond"ed\, a.       Placed under, or covered by, a bond, as for the payment of       duties, or for conformity to certain regulations.          {Bonded goods}, goods placed in a bonded warehouse; goods,             for the duties on which bonds are given at the             customhouse.          {Bonded warehouse}, a warehouse in which goods on which the             duties are unpaid are stored under bond and in the joint             custody of the importer, or his agent, and the customs             officers.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bonnet \Bon"net\ (b[ocr]n"n[ecr]t), n. [OE. bonet, OF. bonet,       bonete. F. bonnet fr. LL. bonneta, bonetum; orig. the name of       a stuff, and of unknown origin.]       1. A headdress for men and boys; a cap. [Obs.] --Milton.             --Shak.          2. A soft, elastic, very durable cap, made of thick, seamless             woolen stuff, and worn by men in Scotland.                         And p[?]i[?]s and bonnets waving high. --Sir W.                                                                               Scott.          3. A covering for the head, worn by women, usually protecting             more or less the back and sides of the head, but no part             of the forehead. The shape of the bonnet varies greatly at             different times; formerly the front part projected, and             spread outward, like the mouth of a funnel.          4. Anything resembling a bonnet in shape or use; as,             (a) (Fort.) A small defense work at a salient angle; or a                   part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part                   from enfilade fire.             (b) A metallic canopy, or projection, over an opening, as                   a fireplace, or a cowl or hood to increase the draught                   of a chimney, etc.             (c) A frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to                   prevent escape of sparks.             (d) A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its                   occupants from objects falling down the shaft.             (e) In pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the                   valve chambers.          5. (Naut.) An additional piece of canvas laced to the foot of             a jib or foresail in moderate winds. --Hakluyt.          6. The second stomach of a ruminating animal.          7. An accomplice of a gambler, auctioneer, etc., who entices             others to bet or to bid; a decoy. [Cant]          {Bonnet head} (Zo[94]l.), a shark ({Sphyrna tiburio}) of the             southern United States and West Indies.          {Bonnet limpet} (Zo[94]l.), a name given, from their shape,             to various species of shells (family {Calyptr[91]id[91]}).                      {Bonnet monkey} (Zo[94]l.), an East Indian monkey ({Macacus             sinicus}), with a tuft of hair on its head; the munga.          {Bonnet piece}, a gold coin of the time of James V. of             Scotland, the king's head on which wears a bonnet. --Sir             W. Scott.          {To have a bee in the bonnet}. See under {Bee}.          {Black bonnet}. See under {Black}.          {Blue bonnet}. See in the Vocabulary.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bonneted \Bon"net*ed\, a.       1. Wearing a bonnet. [bd]Bonneted and shawled.[b8] --Howitt.          2. (Fort.) Protected by a bonnet. See {Bonnet}, 4             (a) .
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bound \Bound\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bounded}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Bounding}.]       1. To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of             extension of; -- said of natural or of moral objects; to             lie along, or form, a boundary of; to inclose; to             circumscribe; to restrain; to confine.                         Where full measure only bounds excess. --Milton.                         Phlegethon . . . Whose fiery flood the burning                      empire bounds.                                    --Dryden.          2. To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bountihead \Boun"ti*head\, Bountyhood \Boun"ty*hood\, n.       Goodness; generosity. [Obs.] --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bountihead \Boun"ti*head\, Bountyhood \Boun"ty*hood\, n.       Goodness; generosity. [Obs.] --Spenser.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Bandytown, WV       Zip code(s): 25204
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
bandwidth n.   1. [common] Used by hackers (in a generalization    of its technical meaning) as the volume of information per unit time    that a computer, person, or transmission medium can handle.   "Those    are amazing graphics, but I missed some of the detail -- not enough    bandwidth, I guess."   Compare {low-bandwidth}.   This generalized    usage began to go mainstream after the Internet population explosion    of 1993-1994.   2. Attention span.   3. On {Usenet}, a measure of    network capacity that is often wasted by people complaining about    how items posted by others are a waste of bandwidth.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
bandwidth          The difference between the highest and lowest       frequencies of a transmission channel (the width of its       allocated band of frequencies).          The term is often used erroneously to mean {data rate} or       capacity - the amount of {data} that is, or can be, sent       through a given communications circuit per second.          [How is data capacity related to bandwidth?]          [{Jargon File}]          (2001-04-24)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
B-Method          A system for rigorous or formal       development of software using the notion of {Abstract       Machine}s to specify and design software systems.   The       B-Method is supported by the {B-Toolkit}.          Abstract Machines are specified using the Abstract Machine       Notation (AMN) which is in turn based on the mathematical       theory of {Generalised Substitution}s.          (1995-03-13)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
bounded          In {domain theory}, a subset S of a {cpo} X is       bounded if there exists x in X such that for all s in S, s <=       x.   In other words, there is some element above all of S.   If       every bounded subset of X has a least upper bound then X is       boundedly {complete}.          ("<=" is written in {LaTeX} as {\subseteq}).          (1995-02-03)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
boundedly complete          In domain theory, a complete partial order is boundedly       complete if every bounded subset has a least upper bound.       Also called consistently complete.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Ben-hadad       the standing title of the Syrian kings, meaning "the son of       Hadad." (See {HADADEZER}.)                (1.) The king of Syria whom Asa, king of Judah, employed to       invade Israel (1 Kings 15:18).                (2.) Son of the preceding, also king of Syria. He was long       engaged in war against Israel. He was murdered probably by       Hazael, by whom he was succeeded (2 Kings 8:7-15), after a reign       of some thirty years.                (3.) King of Damascus, and successor of his father Hazael on       the throne of Syria (2 Kings 13:3, 4). His misfortunes in war       are noticed by Amos (1:4).
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Benhadad, son of Hadad, or noise