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Bane   /beɪn/   Listen
noun
Bane  n.  
1.
That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality. (Obs. except in combination, as in ratsbane, henbane, etc.)
2.
Destruction; death. (Obs.) "The cup of deception spiced and tempered to their bane."
3.
Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe. "Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe."
4.
A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.
Synonyms: Poison; ruin; destruction; injury; pest.


verb
Bane  v. t.  To be the bane of; to ruin. (Obs.)





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"Bane" Quotes from Famous Books



... be able to explain to you clearly the divisions of every measure, but this is not sufficient for the musician: he must decipher his measures with great readiness, precision and rapidity, or he never rises above the mediocre. The ambition to excel without hard labor is the bane of students of the piano especially. It leads them to muddle over music too difficult for them; finally, to learn it after a fashion, so that they may be able to "rattle and bang" through it to the delight of fond relatives ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 • Various
... series contains different varieties, no Stamp being included in two Packets, and purchasers will by this novel method be saved the inconvenience of acquiring duplicates, which is as a rule the bane of ...
— Stamp Collecting as a Pastime • Edward J. Nankivell
... witches use is reported to be made of the fat of children digged out of their graves; of the juices of smallage, wolf-bane, and cinque-foil, mingled with the meal of fine wheat; but I suppose that the soporiferous medicines are likest to do it." See Sylva Sylvarum, cent. X, 975, in Works, ed. Spedding, II, 664. But even this passage shows Bacon a skeptic. His suggestion ...
— A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 • Wallace Notestein
... the origin of the useless life he had so long led and now so deeply deplored; that the hoard of gold discovered in its frame had developed and fostered in him those worldly passions, that sensuality and love of luxury, which had been the bane of his genius. Calling his servants, he ordered the hateful picture to be taken from the room, and bestowed where he should never again behold it. Its departure, however, was insufficient to calm his agitation and quell the storm that raged ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 • Various
... thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay and trust is In moral ...
— Robert Burns - How To Know Him • William Allan Neilson


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