BPage 61
- English Word Battle Definition The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia.
- English Word Battle Definition To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories.
- English Word Battle Definition To assail in battle; to fight.
- English Word Battle-ax Definition Alt. of Battle-axe
- English Word Battle-axe Definition A kind of broadax formerly used as an offensive weapon.
- English Word Battled Definition of Battle
- English Word Battled Definition Embattled.
- English Word Battledoor Definition An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock.
- English Word Battledoor Definition A child's hornbook.
- English Word Battlement Definition One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.
- English Word Battlement Definition pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches.
- English Word Battlemented Definition Having battlements.
- English Word Battler Definition A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge.
- English Word Battling Definition of Battle
- English Word Battologist Definition One who battologizes.
- English Word Battologize Definition To keep repeating needlessly; to iterate.
- English Word Battology Definition A needless repetition of words in speaking or writing.
- English Word Batton Definition See Batten, and Baton.
- English Word Battue Definition The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game.
- English Word Battue Definition The game itself.
- English Word Battue Definition The wanton slaughter of game.
- English Word Batture Definition An elevated river bed or sea bed.
- English Word Battuta Definition The measuring of time by beating.
- English Word Batty Definition Belonging to, or resembling, a bat.
- English Word Batule Definition A springboard in a circus or gymnasium; -- called also batule board.
- English Word Batwing Definition Shaped like a bat's wing; as, a bat's-wing burner.
- English Word Batz Definition A small copper coin, with a mixture of silver, formerly current in some parts of Germany and Switzerland. It was worth about four cents.
- English Word Batzen Definition of Batz
- English Word Baubee Definition Same as Bawbee.
- English Word Bauble Definition A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything.