These are the meanings of the letters BANT when you unscramble them.
- Ant (n.)
A hymenopterous insect of the Linnaean genus Formica, which is now made a family of several genera; an emmet; a pismire.
- Ban (n.)
A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army.
- Ban (n.)
A curse or anathema.
- Ban (n.)
A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
- Ban (n.)
A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.
- Ban (n.)
An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia.
- Ban (n.)
An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription.
- Ban (n.)
Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense).
- Ban (v. i.)
To curse; to swear.
- Ban (v. t.)
To curse; to invoke evil upon.
- Ban (v. t.)
To forbid; to interdict.
- Bat (n.)
A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.
- Bat (n.)
A part of a brick with one whole end.
- Bat (n.)
A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
- Bat (n.)
One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire.
- Bat (n.)
Shale or bituminous shale.
- Bat (v. i.)
To use a bat, as in a game of baseball.
- Bat (v. t.)
To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.
- Nab (n.)
The cock of a gunlock.
- Nab (n.)
The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot.
- Nab (n.)
The summit of an eminence.
- Nab (v. t.)
To catch or seize suddenly or unexpectedly.
- Tab (n.)
A border of lace or other material, worn on the inner front edge of ladies' bonnets.
- Tab (n.)
A loop for pulling or lifting something.
- Tab (n.)
A loose pendent part of a lady's garment; esp., one of a series of pendent squares forming an edge or border.
- Tab (n.)
A tag. See Tag, 2.
- Tab (n.)
The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.
- Tan (a.)
Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown.
- Tan (n.)
A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan.
- Tan (n.)
A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.
- Tan (n.)
See Picul.
- Tan (n.)
The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark.
- Tan (n.)
To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water.
- Tan (n.)
To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin.
- Tan (v. i.)
To get or become tanned.