bandog (bandog)

[ME. band dogge, etc.; They pray us that it would please us to let them still hale us, and worry us with their band - dogs , and Pursuivants. Milton , Ref. in Eng., ii. The keeper entered leading his bandog , a large bloodhound, tied in a leam or band, from which he takes his IMG:content-1619.png:[blocks in formation] bandoleer (cf. bandolo, head of a skein), dim. of banda (= Sp. banda = F. bande ), a band, sash: see band2.] 1. A broad belt or baldric worn over the shoulder and acro the breast, and used for suspending a wallet by the side. Bandoleer. I threw mine arms, like a scarf or band i leer , cro the lieutenant's melancholy bosom. Middle ton, The Black Book. The Baillie now came bustling in, dre ed in his blue coat and banda liers, and attended by two or three halberdiers. Scott , Monastery, I. x. Specifically-2. Such a belt worn by soldiers; a shoulder belt from which cartridges are suspended. The dagger is stuck in the sash, and a bandoleer slung over the shoulders carries their cartridge-case, powder flask, flint and steel, priming-horn, and other nece aries. R. F. Burton , El-Medinah, p. 151. Hence-3. A nearly cylindrical case of copper or other material formerly used to contain a charge of powder. A number of these were slung to a baldric or shoulder-belt, and formed the common means of charging the harquebuse, or in modern times the musket. IMG:content-1620.png:[blocks in formation] bandorel (ban-dōr'), n. [Also formerly bandora, band uri on, after Sp. or Pg.: Sp. bandurria and bandola, formerly pandurria, = Pg. bandurra = It. mandora (> F. mandore ) and mandola (dim. man do lino, > E. mandoline ), and pandora, pan dura; variously corrupted (as also E. banjo, q. v.), called bandalore. Sound lute, bandora , gittern, Viol, virginals, and cittern. Middle ton, Your Five Gallants, v. 2.