banteng (banteng)

[Native name; also spelled banting.] A species of ox, Bos banteng or B. sondaicus, a local race in the Malay archipelago. banter (ban'ter), v. t. [First in the latter part of the 17th century; regarded then as slang.] 1. To addre good-humored raillery to; attack with jokes or jests; make fun of; rally. The magistrate took it that he bantered him, and bade an officer take him into custody. Sir R. L'Estrange. Not succeeding in bantering me out of my epistolary proprieties. Blackwood's Mag ., XXIII. 384. So home we went, and all the livelong way With solemn jibe did Eustace banter me. Tennyson, Gardener's Daughter. 2. To impose upon or cheat, originally in a jesting or bantering way; bamboozle. [Archaic.] Somebody had been bantering him with an imposition. Scott , Guy Manner ing, li. 3. To challenge; invite to a contest. [Southern and western U. S.]=Syn. Banter, Rally, quiz, tease, joke. We banter another in good humor chiefly for something he or she has done or neglected to do, whether the act or omi ion be faulty or ridiculous or not, if it only affords a subject for a laugh or smile at his or her expense, or causes a blush not altogether painful. Rally, literally to rail, generally implies some degree of sarcasm or pungency, and is aimed at some specific fault, offense, banquette (bong-ket'), n. banc , a bench: see bank2 , and cf. banquet .] 1. (a) In fort . , a raised way or foot-bank, run- ning along the inside of a parapet breast-high above it, on which riflemen stand to fire upon the enemy. (b) In medieval fort ., an advanced earthwork or palisaded defense outside of the ditch. The space between the ditch and the parapet was wide enough for a line of soldiers, but too narrow to allow of its being fortified if occupied by the besiegers. Formerly sometimes written banquet , as English. 2. The footway of a bridge when raised above the carriageway.-3. A bench for pa engers, or the space occupied by benches, on the top of a French diligence, and hence of any public vehicle.-4. A sidewalk. [Common in the southern and southwestern United States.] Standing outside on the banquette , he bowed - not to Dr. Mo y, but to the balcony of the big red-brick front. G. W. Cable , Old Creole Days, p. 144. (origin unknown) + nut . ] A walnut, the fruit of Juglans regia (bannut-tree). [Obsolete or dialectal.]