Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
BANDIEST
BANDY
bandy, bandy-legged, bowed, bowleg, bowlegged
(adjective) have legs that curve outward at the knees
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
bandiest
superlative form of bandy: most bandy
Verb
bandiest
(archaic) second-person singular simple present form of bandy
Anagrams
• Binstead
Source: Wiktionary
BANDY
Ban"dy, n. Etym: [Telugu bandi.]
Definition: A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.
Ban"dy, n.; pl. Bandies (. Etym: [Cf. F. bandé, p.p. of bander to bind, to bend (a bow), to bandy, fr. bande. See Band, n.]
1. A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick. Johnson.
2. The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.
Ban"dy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bandied (p. pr. & vb. n. Bandying.]
1. To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy. Like tennis balls bandied and struck upon us . . . by rackets from without. Cudworth.
2. To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. "To bandy hasty words." Shak.
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.
Definition: To content, 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.
Definition: Bent; crooked; curved laterally, esp. with the convex side outward; as, a bandy leg.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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