Boon vs. Bane

Boonnoun

(obsolete) A prayer; petition.

Boonnoun

(archaic) That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.

Boonnoun

A good thing; a blessing or benefit; a thing to be thankful for.

Boonnoun

An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.

Boonnoun

The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.

Boonadjective

(obsolete) good; prosperous; as, "boon voyage"

Boonadjective

kind; bountiful; benign

Boonadjective

(Fossil word used only in idiom pairing it with subsequent "companion") gay; merry; jovial; convivial

Boonnoun

A prayer or petition.

Boonnoun

That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift; a benefaction; a grant; a present.

Boonnoun

The woody portion flax, which is separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.

Boonadjective

Good; prosperous; as, boon voyage.

Boonadjective

Kind; bountiful; benign.

Boonadjective

Gay; merry; jovial; convivial.

Boonnoun

a desirable state;

Boonadjective

very close and convivial;

Boonnoun

a thing that is helpful or beneficial

Boonnoun

a favour or request.

Banenoun

A cause of misery or death; an affliction or curse.

Banenoun

(dated) Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants.

Banenoun

(obsolete) A killer, murderer, slayer.

Banenoun

(obsolete) Destruction; death.

Banenoun

A disease of sheep; the rot.

Banenoun

bone

Baneverb

(transitive) To kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of.

Baneverb

(transitive) To be the bane of.

Banenoun

That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality.

Banenoun

Destruction; death.

Banenoun

Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe.

Banenoun

A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot.

Baneverb

To be the bane of; to ruin.

Banenoun

something causes misery or death;

Banenoun

a cause of great distress or annoyance

Banenoun

something, especially poison, which causes death.