*eban*

{ } n. Coagulated sour milk diluted with water; -- a common beverage among the Arabs. Also, a fermented liquor made of the same. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Zool.) The menhaden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. montimbanco, montambanco; montare to mount + in in, upon + banco bench. See Mount, and 4th Bank. ] 1. One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infallible remedies; a quack doctor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that a mountebank . . . is preferred before an able physician. Whitlock. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will undertake. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To play the mountebank. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a mountebank or his quackery. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That part of the headstall of a bridle which passes over a horse's nose. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To banish again. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The part of a harness which passes over the saddle, and supports the shafts of a cart; -- called also ridgerope, and ridger. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A small piece of spun yarn or marline, used to fasten the head of the sail to the spar. [ Written also roband, and robbin. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Per. shāhbandar. ] A harbor master, or ruler of a port, in the East Indies. [ Written also shebunder. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Shebeen. ] 1. A jocosely depreciative name for a dwelling or shop; a primitive dwelling; a shanty. [ Slang, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The structure of an object, process, organization, or anything viewed as complicated; -- used primarily in the phrase
the whole shebang; as, it comes with unnecessary frills, but you have to buy the whole shebang. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

3. (computers) [ Possibly derived from shell bang; the character ! is referred to in some computer contexts as bang. ] The character sequence #!, which frequently begins shell scripts in a Unix system. [ PJC ]

a. [ L. Thebanus. ] Of or pertaining to Thebes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Theban year (Anc. Chron.), the Egyptian year of 365 days and 6 hours. J. Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]