ppl. a. [f. BAND v. + -ED.]

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  1.  Bound or fastened with, or as if with, a band.

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1488.  Invent., in Tytler, Hist. Scot. (1864), II. 391. A bandit kist like a gardeviant.

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1813.  Scott, Rokeby, III. xxiv. These iron-banded chests to gain.

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1852.  Tupper, Prov. Philos., 409. One fortuitous grain might dislocate the banded universe.

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  2.  Furnished with a band (or bands); in Her. with a band differing in color from the garb.

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1787.  Porny, Heraldry, 151. Three Blackamoors’ Heads in Profile … banded Argent and Gules.

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1823.  P. Nicholson, Pract. Build., 581. Banded column, a column encircled with Bands, or annular rustics.

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1837.  Marryat, Dog-fiend, vii. A … gold-banded cocked hat.

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1855.  Tennyson, Maud, I. viii. The snowy-banded … Delicate-handed priest.

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  3.  Marked with bands or stripes.

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a. 1842.  Tennyson, Eleänore. The yellow-banded bees.

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1876.  Page, Advd. Text-bk. Geol., xvii. 310. This banded appearance of a lias cliff.

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  4.  Confederated, leagued, allied.

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1601.  Bp. Barlow, Serm. Paules Crosse, 61. This conspiracie thus banded.

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1667.  Milton, P. L., VI. 85. The banded Powers of Satan.

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1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 274. The poet addressed himself to the banded enemies of France.

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