3. To toss about, as from man to man; to agitate.

Let not obvious and known truth be bandied about in a disputation.

I. Watts.

Ban"dy, v. i. To contend, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way.

Fit to bandy with thy lawless sons.

Shak.

Ban"dy, a. Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.

Ban"dy-legged` (&?;), a. Having crooked legs.

Bane (bn), n. [OE. bane destruction, AS. bana murderer; akin to Icel. bani death, murderer, OHG. bana murder, bano murderer, Goth. banja stroke, wound, Gr. foney`s murderer, fo`nos murder, OIr. bath death, benim I strike. √31.] 1. That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality. [Obs. except in combination, as in ratsbane, henbane, etc.]

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