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Voyage to the East-Indies 197: BANG is [...] an intoxicating herb [...] and it is hard to say what pleasure can be found in the use of it, being very disagreeable to the taste, and violent in its operation, which produces a temporary madness, that in some, when designedly taken for that purpose, ends in running what they call a-muck, furiously killing every one they meet, without distinction till themselves are knocked on the head like mad dogs.at bang, n.4