BANDAGE. A fillet or swathe, of the utmost importance in surgery. Also, formerly, parcelling to ropes.
BANDALEERS, or Bandoleers. A wide leathern belt for the carriage of small cases of wood, covered with leather, each containing a charge for a fire-lock; in use before the modern cartouche-boxes were introduced.
BANDECOOT. A large species of fierce rat in India, which infests the drains, &c.
BANDED-DRUM. See [Grunter].
BANDED-MAIL. A kind of armour which consisted of alternate rows of leather or cotton and single chain-mail.
BANDEROLD, or Banderole. A small streamer or banner, usually fixed on a pike: from banderola, Sp. diminutive of bandera, the flag or ensign.
BAND-FISH, or Ribbon-fishes. A popular name of the Gymnetrus genus.
BANDLE. An Irish measure of two feet in length.
BANG. A mixture of opium, hemp-leaves, and tobacco, of an intoxicating quality, chewed and smoked by the Malays and other people in the East, who, being mostly prohibited the use of wine, double upon Mahomet by indulging in other intoxicating matter, as if the manner of doing it cleared off the crime of drunkenness. This horrid stuff gives the maddening excitement which makes a Malay run [amok] (which see).—To bang is colloquially used to express excelling or beating rivals. (See [Suffolk Bang].)