Band \Band\ (b[a^]nd), n. [OE. band, bond, Icel. band; akin to
   G., Sw., & D. band, OHG. bant, Goth. bandi, Skr. bandha a
   binding, bandh to bind, for bhanda, bhandh, also to E. bend,
   bind. In sense 7, at least, it is fr. F. bande, from OHG.
   bant. [root]90. See Bind, v. t., and cf. Bend, Bond,
   1st Bandy.]
   1. 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.
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            Every one's bands were loosed.        --Acts xvi.
                                                  26.
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   2. (Arch.)
      (a) A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments,
          as of carved foliage, of color, or of brickwork, etc.
      (b) In Gothic architecture, the molding, or suite of
          moldings, which encircles the pillars and small
          shafts.
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   3. That which serves as the means of union or connection
      between persons; a tie. "To join in Hymen's bands."
      --Shak.
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   4. A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th
      centuries.
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   5. pl. Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as
      part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.
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   6. A narrow strip of cloth or other material on any article
      of dress, to bind, strengthen, ornament, or complete it.
      "Band and gusset and seam." --Hood.
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   7. A company of persons united in any common design,
      especially a body of armed men.
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            Troops of horsemen with his bands of foot. --Shak.
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   8. 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; as, a high school's marching band.
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   9. (Bot.) A space between elevated lines or ribs, as of the
      fruits of umbelliferous plants.
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   10. (Zool.) A stripe, streak, or other mark transverse to the
       axis of the body.
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   11. (Mech.) A belt or strap.
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   12. A bond. [Obs.] "Thy oath and band." --Shak.
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   13. Pledge; security. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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   Band saw, a saw in the form of an endless steel belt, with
      teeth on one edge, running over wheels.

   big band, a band that is the size of an orchestra, usually
      playing mostly jazz or swing music. The big band typically
      features both ensemble and solo playing, sometimes has a
      lead singer, and is often located in a night club where
      the patrons may dance to its music. The big bands were
      popular from the late 1920's to the 1940's. Contrasted
      with combo, which has fewer players.
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	Band \Band\, v. t.
   To bandy; to drive away. [Obs.]
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	Band \Band\,
   imp. of Bind. [Obs.]                         --Spenser.
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	Band \Band\ (b[a^]nd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Banded; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Banding.]
   1. To bind or tie with a band.
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   2. To mark with a band.
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   3. To unite in a troop, company, or confederacy. "Banded
      against his throne." --Milton.
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   Banded architrave, Banded pier, Banded shaft, etc.
      (Arch.), an architrave, pier, shaft, etc., of which the
      regular profile is interrupted by blocks or projections
      crossing it at right angles.
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	Band \Band\, v. i.
   To confederate for some common purpose; to unite; to conspire
   together.
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         Certain of the Jews banded together.     --Acts xxiii.
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	453 Moby Thesaurus words for "band":
   Ace bandage, Band-Aid, Bund, German band, Mystik tape,
   Philharmonic, Rochdale cooperative, Scotch tape, accouple,
   accumulate, act in concert, act together, adhesive tape, affiliate,
   age group, agglutinate, alliance, ally, amalgamate, amass,
   amateur band, anklet, application, armlet, articulate, assemblage,
   assemble, assembly, associate, association, axis, band together,
   bandage, bandaging, bandeau, bar, battalion, batten, be in league,
   bed, bedding, begird, belt, belt in, bend, bespangle, bespeckle,
   bespot, bevy, big band, bind, bind up, binder, bloc, blotch, body,
   bond, border, brace, bracelet, bracket, brass, brass band,
   brass choir, brass quintet, brass section, brasses, bridge,
   bridge over, brigade, bunch, bundle, cabal, callithumpian band,
   cast, cataplasm, cellophane tape, cement, chain, chamber orchestra,
   channel, check, checker, cinch, cincture, cingulum, circle,
   citizens band, clap together, clique, cloth tape, club,
   club together, cluster, coact, coalesce, coalition, cohort,
   collaborate, collar, collarband, collect, college, collude,
   combination, combine, combo, common market, company, complement,
   compress, comprise, concatenate, concert, concert band, concord,
   concur, confederacy, confederate, confederation, conglobulate,
   conjoin, conjugate, connect, consociate, consolidate, conspire,
   consumer cooperative, contingent, cooperate, cooperative,
   cooperative society, copulate, corps, coterie, cotton, couche,
   council, couple, course, court plaster, cover, covey, crack,
   cravat, craze, credit union, crew, cross-hatching, crowd,
   customs union, dapple, dash, deck, delineation, desks, detachment,
   detail, diagonal, division, dixieland band, do business with,
   do up, dot, dotted line, dressing, earring, ecliptic,
   economic community, edge, elastic bandage, embrace, encincture,
   encircle, encompass, engird, ensemble, ensphere, epithem, equator,
   faction, fascia, federate, federation, fillet, finger ring, flake,
   fleck, fleet, floor, four-tailed bandage, freckle, free trade area,
   frequency band, friction tape, fuse, gallery, gamelan orchestra,
   gang, gather, gauze, get heads together, get together, gird,
   girdle, girt, girth, glue, go partners, great circle, group,
   grouping, groupment, hachure, hairline, hang together, harlequin,
   harmonize, hatching, hold together, hook up, hoop, horde, in-group,
   include, iris, jazz band, join, join in, join together, jug band,
   junta, keep, keep together, knot, lace, lash, lath, lay together,
   layer, league, league together, leash, ledge, level, ligula,
   ligule, line, lineation, link, lint, list, loop, lump together,
   machine, maculate, make common cause, marble, marbleize, marry,
   marshal, masking tape, mass, measures, merge, military band, mob,
   mobilize, motley, mottle, movement, neckband, necklace, nose ring,
   orchestra, out-group, outfit, overlayer, overstory, pack, pair,
   partner, partnership, party, peer group, pepper, phalanx,
   philharmonic, piece together, plank, plaster, plaster cast,
   plastic tape, platoon, play ball, pledget, police band,
   political machine, polychrome, polychromize, posse, poultice,
   pull together, put heads together, put together, quartet, quintet,
   quoit, radio channel, ragtime band, rainbow, reciprocate, regiment,
   ribband, ribbon, ring, rock-and-roll group, roll into one, roller,
   roller bandage, rope, rubber bandage, salon, score, seam, set,
   sextet, shelf, shortwave band, shred, skiffle band, slash, slat,
   sling, slip, society, solder, span, spangle, speck, speckle, spill,
   splice, spline, splint, splotch, sponge, spot, sprinkle, squad,
   stable, stage, stand together, standard band, steel band, step,
   stick together, stigmatize, stipple, story, strake, strap, stratum,
   streak, streaking, street band, stria, striate, striation,
   striature, striga, string, string band, string choir,
   string orchestra, string quartet, strings, striola, strip, stripe,
   striping, stroke, strop, stud, stupe, sublineation, substratum,
   superstratum, swaddle, swathe, swing band, symphony,
   symphony orchestra, taenia, take in, tampon, tape, tape measure,
   tapeline, tattoo, team, team up, tent, tessellate, thickness,
   throw in together, ticker tape, tie, tie in, tie up, tier, topsoil,
   tourniquet, triangular bandage, tribe, trio, troop, troupe, truss,
   twine around, underlayer, underline, underlining, underscore,
   underscoring, understory, understratum, unify, union, unionize,
   unite, unite efforts, variegate, vein, virgule, waits, weld, wing,
   wire, woodwind, woodwind choir, woodwind quartet, woodwinds,
   work together, wrap, wrap up, wreathe, wreathe around, wristband,
   wristlet, yoke, zodiac, zone