BPage 59
- English Word Batta Definition Rate of exchange; also, the discount on uncurrent coins.
- English Word Battable Definition Capable of cultivation; fertile; productive; fattening.
- English Word Battailant Definition Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike.
- English Word Battailant Definition A combatant.
- English Word Battailous Definition Arrayed for battle; fit or eager for battle; warlike.
- English Word Battalia Definition Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval force, for action.
- English Word Battalia Definition An army in battle array; also, the main battalia or body.
- English Word Battalion Definition A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array.
- English Word Battalion Definition A regiment, or two or more companies of a regiment, esp. when assembled for drill or battle.
- English Word Battalion Definition To form into battalions.
- English Word Batted Definition of Bat
- English Word Battel Definition A single combat; as, trial by battel. See Wager of battel, under Wager.
- English Word Battel Definition Provisions ordered from the buttery; also, the charges for them; -- only in the pl., except when used adjectively.
- English Word Battel Definition To be supplied with provisions from the buttery.
- English Word Battel Definition To make fertile.
- English Word Battel Definition Fertile; fruitful; productive.
- English Word Batteler Definition Alt. of Battler
- English Word Batten Definition To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten.
- English Word Batten Definition To fertilize or enrich, as land.
- English Word Batten Definition To grow fat; to grow fat in ease and luxury; to glut one's self.
- English Word Batten Definition A strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling; as, (a) pl. (Com. & Arch.) Sawed timbers about 7 by 2 1/2 inches and not less than 6 feet long. Brande & C. (b) (Naut.) A strip of wood used in fastening the edges of a tarpaulin to the deck, also around masts to prevent chafing. (c) A long, thin strip used to strengthen a part, to cover a crack, etc.
- English Word Batten Definition To furnish or fasten with battens.
- English Word Batten Definition The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.
- English Word Battened Definition of Batten
- English Word Battening Definition of Batten
- English Word Battening Definition Furring done with small pieces nailed directly upon the wall.
- English Word Batter Definition To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart.
- English Word Batter Definition To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.
- English Word Batter Definition To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
- English Word Batter Definition A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery.