BANE
\bˈe͡ɪn], \bˈeɪn], \b_ˈeɪ_n]\
Definitions of BANE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality.
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Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe.
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A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.
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To be the bane of; to ruin.
By Oddity Software
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That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality.
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Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe.
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A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.
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To be the bane of; to ruin.
By Noah Webster.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Anything poisonous or destructive.
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A name given to the "rot," a disease of sheep, in Somersetshire, England. [Ang.-Sax.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).