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- English Word Bat Definition To use a bat, as in a game of baseball.
- English Word Bat Definition One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire.
- English Word Bat printing Definition A mode of printing on glazed ware.
- English Word Bat's-wing Definition Alt. of Batwing
- English Word Batable Definition Disputable.
- English Word Batailled Definition Embattled.
- English Word Batardeau Definition A cofferdam.
- English Word Batardeau Definition A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall.
- English Word Batata Definition An aboriginal American name for the sweet potato (Ipomaea batatas).
- English Word Batatas Definition Alt. of Batata
- English Word Batavian Definition Of or pertaining to (a) the Batavi, an ancient Germanic tribe; or to (b) /atavia or Holland; as, a Batavian legion.
- English Word Batavian Definition A native or inhabitant of Batavia or Holland.
- English Word Batch Definition The quantity of bread baked at one time.
- English Word Batch Definition A quantity of anything produced at one operation; a group or collection of persons or things of the same kind; as, a batch of letters; the next batch of business.
- English Word Bate Definition Strife; contention.
- English Word Bate Definition To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
- English Word Bate Definition To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
- English Word Bate Definition To leave out; to except.
- English Word Bate Definition To remove.
- English Word Bate Definition To deprive of.
- English Word Bate Definition To remit or retrench a part; -- with of.
- English Word Bate Definition To waste away.
- English Word Bate Definition To attack; to bait.
- English Word Bate Definition imp. of Bite.
- English Word Bate Definition To flutter as a hawk; to bait.
- English Word Bate Definition See 2d Bath.
- English Word Bate Definition An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer.
- English Word Bate Definition To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.
- English Word Bateau Definition A boat; esp. a flat-bottomed, clumsy boat used on the Canadian lakes and rivers.
- English Word Bateaux Definition of Bateau