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 BAP BAN ( 519 ) regale themfelves with pleafant foods, or fruits, fe augment the flock, by reafon of the liberty of with- fignifies alfo a little bank, or raifed way. drawing their money at pleafure, <kfc. in the menage, that fmall part of the branch' BANKAFALET, a game at cards, which being cut in- Banquet, that is under the eye, which being rounded to as many heaps as there are players, every man lays oflikea abridle "rod, gathers and joins the extremities of as much money on his own card as he pleafes ; and the the bittfmall to the and that in fuch a manner, that dealer wins orloofes as many as his card is fuperior or the banquet is branch, not feen, but covered by the cope, or inferior to thofe of the other gameflers. that part of the bitt that is next the branch. The befl card is the ace of diamonds ; the next to Banquet-//«<?, an imaginary line drawn, .in making a it, the ace of hearts ; then the ace ot clubs ; and, laltalong the banquet, and prolonged up or down, ly, the ace of fpades : And fo of the reft of thefe fuits bitt, to adjuft the defigned force or weaknefs of the branch, in order, according to their degree. it ftiff or eafy. The cheat lies in fecuring an ace, or any other fare in order toormakeBanquette, in fortification, a little winning card ; which are lomehow marked,- that the Banquet, foot-bank, or elevation of earth, forming a path, fharper may know them. runs along the infide of a parapet, upon which BANKER, a perfon who traffics and negociates in mo- which ney; who receives and remits money from place to the mufqueteers get up, in order to difeover the counor to fire on the enemy in the moat, or in place by commiffion from correfpondents, or by means terfearp, the covert-way. of bills or letters of exchange. BANSTICLE. in ichthyology. See Gasterosteus. BANKlSH, a province of the Mogul’s dominions, in BANTAM, the capital of a large kingdom, and a portthe north part of the Hither India, lying fouth weft of town of great trade, fituated on the north-weft coaft the province of Caffimere. the ifland of Java, in 105° E. long, and 6° 3</ Comraijjiin 0/BANKRUPTCY. See Commission. ofS. lat. BANN, or Ban, in the feudal law, a folemn proclamation or publication of any thing. Hence the cuftom Bantam-work, a kind of painted or carved work, reof afking, or bans, before marriage. See Mar- fembling that of Japan, only more gaudy. BANTON, in geography, one of the Philippine iflands. riage. Bann, in military affairs, a proclamation made in the BANTRY, a town of Ireland, fituated on a bay of the 7 army by beat of drum, found of trumpet, <bc. re- fame name, in0 the county of Cork, 0and province of quiring the ftridt obfervance of difcipline,- either for Munfter, in 9 2d W. long, and 51 3c/ N. lat. the declaring a new officer, or puniffiing an offender. BANZA, a city of Africa,, the capital of the kingdom Bann of the empire, an imperial profcription, being a of Congo. judicial puniffiment, wherewith fuch as are acceflary BAPAUME, a fortified town of the French Netherto difturbing the public peace are judged unworthy of lands, about 12 miles fouth-eaft of Arras, in 30 E. the immunities and prote&ion of the empire, and are long, and jo°io' N. lat. out-lawed or baniffied, be.. BAPTISM, in matters of religion, a facrament, by BANNAGHER, a town of Ireland, in the king’s which a perfon is initiated, into the Chrillian churchy county, and province of Leinfter,0 lituated on the river See Religion. Shannon, 8° W. long, and 53 ic/ N. lat. Baptism, in the fea-lang.uage, aceremony in long voyagesBANNER denotes either a fquare flag, or the principal on board merchant-ffiips, pradtifed both on perfons and veffels who pafs the tropic or line for the firft time. ftandard belonging to a prince. BANNERET, an ancient order of knights, or feudal The baptizing the veffel is fimple, and confifts only in lords, who, poffeffing feveral large fees, led their vaf- wafliing them throughout with fea-water ; that of the fals to battle under their own flag, when fummoned paffengers is more myfterious. The oldeft of the crew,. thereto by the king. that has paft the tropic or line, comes with his face BANNISTERIA, in botany, a genus of the decandria blacked,, a grotefq.ue cap on his head, and fome featrigynia clafs. The calix is divided into 5 parts, with book in his hand, followed by the reft of the fea-men a nedtarium at the bafe of each ; the petals are round- dreffed like bimfelf, each having fome kitcben-utenfil iffi and unguiculated ; the capfule contains 3 membra- in his hand, with, drums beating. He places himfelf naceous alated feeds The fpecies are 7, all natives on a feat on the deck, at the foot of the main mail.. of America. At the tribunal of this mock magiftrate, each paflenBANNIMUS, the form of expulfion of any member ger not yet initiated, fwears he will take care the from the univerfity of Oxford, by affixing the fen- fame ceremony.be obferved,.whenever he is in the like tence up in fome public place,, as a denunciation circumftances : Then by giving a little money by way of it. of gratification, he is difeharged with a little fprinkiing, BANNOCK, a kind of oat-cake,, baked in the embers, of water, otherwife he is heartily drenched with ftreams or on a ftone placed before the. fire : It is,common.in, of water poured upon him; and the ffiip-boys are in-, the northern parts of this kingdom. clofed in. a cage, and ducked at diferetion. B ANNUM, in law, fignifies the utmoft bounds of a ma*The feamen, on the baptizing a ffiip, pretend to a nor or town.right of cutting off the beak-head, unlefs redeemed by BANQUET, a feaft or entertainment, where people the captain. bap;