‖n. [ Name given by the negroes in the island of St. Thomas. ] A West Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Banged; p. pr. & vb. n. Banging. ] [ Icel. banga to hammer; akin to Dan. banke to beat, Sw. bångas to be impetuous, G. bengel club, clapper of a bell. ] 1. To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly. [ 1913 Webster ]

The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To beat or thump, or to cause (something) to hit or strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To have sexual intercourse with; to fuck; -- usually used with the male as a subject. Considered vulgar or obscene. [ vulgar slang ] [ PJC ]

v. i. 1. To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the piano. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To have sexual intercourse; to fuck. Considered vulgar and obscene. [ vulgar slang ] [ PJC ]

n. 1. A blow as with a club; a heavy blow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many a stiff thwack, many a bang. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The loud sound produced by a sudden concussion or explosion. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A surge of pleasure; a thrill; -- usually used in the phrase get a bang out of; as, I always get a bang out of watching an ice skater do a quadruple jump. [ informal ]
Syn. -- kick{ 5 }. [ PJC ]

4. (Printing & Computers) An exclamation point; -- used in verbal descriptions of text, in printing and in computer technology; as, his email address is tom bang stanford dot edu (i.e. tom!stanford.edu). [ slang ] [ PJC ]

5. An instance of sexual intercourse; a fuck. Considered vulgar and obscene. [ vulgar slang ] [ PJC ]

v. t. To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair). [ 1913 Webster ]

His hair banged even with his eyebrows. The Century Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn; -- usually used in the plural; as, her bangs came down almost to her eyes. [ 1913 Webster ]

His hair cut in front like a young lady's bang. W. D. Howells. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Huge; great in size. [ Colloq. ] Forby. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Thailand. Population (2000) = 5, 882, 000. [ PJC ]

prop. n. An independent Asian country on teh Bay of Bengal that was once part of India and then part of Pakistan (called East Pakistan).
Syn. -- Bangla Desh, East Pakistan. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A native or inhabitant of Bangladesh. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Bangladesh. Bangladeshi dialects
Syn. -- East Pakistani. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ From 1st Bang. ] To waste by little and little; to fritter away. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Hind. bangrī bracelet, bangle. ] An ornamental circlet, of glass, gold, silver, or other material, worn mostly by women, upon the wrist or ankle; a ring bracelet. It differs from other bracelets in being rigid and not articulated, in contrast to bracelets made of links. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Bangle ear, a loose hanging ear of a horse, like that of a spaniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a horse bred for racing.
Syn. -- racehorse, race horse. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. See Bhang. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Central African Republic. Population (2000) = 706, 000. [ PJC ]

n. (Astron.) The explosive event marking the beginning of the known universe, according to big bang theory; the beginning of time. The big bang is likened to a massive explosion from a point containing all of the matter and energy of the beginning universe, which started the expansion and evolution of the universe which continues today. The evidence for such an event includes the apparently expanding size of the present universe, and a background microwave radiation of about 3° Kelvin, equal to that predicted from mathematical models of such an explosive event. [ PJC ]

n. (Astronomy, Cosmology) The theory that the known universe originated in an explosive event (the big bang) in which all of the matter and energy of the universe was contained in a single point and began to rapidly expand and evolve, starting as high-energy particles and radiation, and, as it cooled over time, evolving into ordinary subatomic particles, atoms, and then stars and galaxies. According to this theory, the four-dimensional space-time continuum which we perceive as our universe continues to expand to the present time, but it is unknown whether the expansion will continue indefinitely or eventually stop or even reverse, possibly leading to a contraction to a single point sometimes referred to as the “big crunch”. The competing “Steady-state Theory” gradually lost favor in the 1980's and 1990's. See also big bang. [ PJC ]

n. [ Written also goban. ] [ Jap. goban checkerboard, fr. Chino-Jap. go checker + ban board. ] A Japanese game, played on a checkerboard, in which the object of the game is to be the first in placing five pieces, or men, in a row in any direction. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ See Probe. ] A slender elastic rod, as of whalebone, with a sponge on the end, for removing obstructions from the esophagus, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Shebeen. ] 1. A jocosely depreciative name for a dwelling or shop; a primitive dwelling; a shanty. [ Slang, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The structure of an object, process, organization, or anything viewed as complicated; -- used primarily in the phrase
the whole shebang; as, it comes with unnecessary frills, but you have to buy the whole shebang. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

3. (computers) [ Possibly derived from shell bang; the character ! is referred to in some computer contexts as bang. ] The character sequence #!, which frequently begins shell scripts in a Unix system. [ PJC ]

adv. With great violence; with a slamming or banging noise. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Slightly angular. [ 1913 Webster ]