Index of English words, starting with "ba"

(1) - Bantingism (n.) A method of reducing corpulence by avoiding food containing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; -- so called from William Banting of London.

(1) - Bantling (n.) A young or small child; an infant. [Slightly contemptuous or depreciatory.]

(1) - Banyan (n.) A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.