bandy

1. (transitive) To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.Examples: "to bandy words (with somebody)"; "Incapable of hearing reproach or bandying invective, her husband had sunk into the indolence of pensive resignation, and, sensible that things had gone too far for effectual retrieve, tried to find a lenitive in the love of his sister, and the often disappointed hope of a son, during whose long minority wonders were to be done in the management of his property."transitive

2. (transitive) To use or pass about casually.Examples: "to have one's name bandied about (or around)"; "Let not obvious and known Truths, or some of the most plain and certain Propositions be bandy’d about in a Disputation, for a meer Trial of Skill […]"; "Technical terms like ferrite, perlite, graphite, and hardenite were bandied to and fro, and when Paget glibly brought out such a rare exotic as ferro-molybdenum, Benson forgot that he was a master ship-builder, […]"transitive

3. (transitive) To throw or strike reciprocally, like balls in sports.Examples: "Do you bandy looks with me, you rascal?"; "For as whipp'd tops and bandied balls, / The learned hold, are animals; / So horses they affirm to be / Mere engines made by geometry […]"; "For, had we no Mastery at all over our Thoughts, but they were all like Tennis Balls, Bandied, and Struck upon us, as it were by Rackets from without; then could we not steadily and constantly carry on any Designs and Purposes of Life."transitive

4. (obsolete, intransitive) To fight (with or against someone).Examples: "Brother displaie my ensignes in the field, Ile bandie with the Barons and the Earles, And eyther die, or liue with Gaueston."; "Tybalt, Mercutio, the prince expressly hath Forbidden bandying in Verona streets:"; "But when a King setts himself to bandy against the highest Court and residence of all his Regal power, he then, in the single person of a Man, fights against his own Majesty and Kingship, and then indeed sets the first hand to his own deposing."intransitiveobsolete