2. To partake of a dessert after a feast. [Obs.]
Where they did both sup and banquet.
Cavendish.
Banqueter
(Ban"quet*er) n. One who banquets; one who feasts or makes feasts.
Banquette
(Ban*quette") n. [F. See Banquet, n.]
1. (Fort.) A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand
to fire upon the enemy.
2. (Arch.) A narrow window seat; a raised shelf at the back or the top of a buffet or dresser.
Banshee
(Ban"shee, Ban"shie) n. [Gael. bean-shith fairy; Gael. & Ir. bean woman + Gael. sith
fairy.] A supernatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy
death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house.
Banstickle
(Ban"stic`kle) n. [OE. ban, bon, bone + stickle prickle, sting. See Bone, n., Stickleback.]
(Zoöl.) A small fish, the three-spined stickleback.
Bantam
(Ban"tam) n. A variety of small barnyard fowl, with feathered legs, probably brought from Bantam,
a district of Java.
Bantam work
(Ban"tam work`). Carved and painted work in imitation of Japan ware.
Banteng
(||Ban"teng) n. (Zoöl.) The wild ox of Java
Banter
(Ban"ter) v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bantered; p. pr. & vb. n. Bantering.] [Prob. corrupted fr. F.
badiner to joke, or perh. fr. E. bandy to beat to and fro. See Badinage, and cf. Barter fr. OF. barater.]
1. To address playful good-natured ridicule to, — the person addressed, or something pertaining to him,
being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity.
Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered on
my haggard looks the next day.
W. Irving.
2. To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like. [Archaic]
If they banter your regularity, order, and love of study, banter in return their neglect of them.
Chatham.
3. To delude or trick, — esp. by way of jest. [Obs.]
We diverted ourselves with bantering several poor scholars
with hopes of being at least his lordship's
chaplain.
De Foe.
4. To challenge or defy to a match. [Colloq. Southern and Western U.S.]
Banter
(Ban"ter), n. The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good-humored raillery; pleasantry.
Part banter, part affection.
Tennyson.
Banterer
(Ban"ter*er) n. One who banters or rallies.
Bantingism
(Ban"ting*ism) n. A method of reducing corpulence by avoiding food containing much farinaceous,
saccharine, or oily matter; — so called from William Banting of London.
