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Webster 1913 Edition
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Ban′ner
(băn′nẽr)
, Noun.
[OE. ]
banere
, OF. baniere
, F. bannière
, bandière
, fr. LL. baneria
, banderia
, fr. bandum
banner, fr. OHG. bant
band, strip of cloth; cf. bindan
to bind, Goth. bandwa
, bandwo
, a sign. See Band
, Noun.
1.
A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle.
Hang out our
banners
on the outward walls. Shakespeare
2.
A large piece of silk or other cloth, with a device or motto, extended on a crosspiece, and borne in a procession, or suspended in some conspicuous place.
3.
Any flag or standard;
as, the star-spangled
. banner
Banner fish
(Zool.)
, a large fish of the genus
Histiophorus
, of the Swordfish family, having a broad bannerlike dorsal fin; the sailfish. One species (Histiophorus Americanus
) inhabits the North Atlantic
.Webster 1828 Edition
Banner
BAN'NER
,Noun.
1.
A square flag; a military ensign; the principal standard of a prince or state.2.
A streamer borne at the end of a lance or elsewhere.3.
In botany, the upper petal of a papilionaceous corol.