Bath (n.) A building containing an apartment or a series of apartments arranged for bathing.
Bath (n.) A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through which heat is applied to a body.
Bath (n.) A solution in which plates or prints are immersed; also, the receptacle holding the solution.
Bath (n.) A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure.
Bath (n.) A city in the west of England, resorted to for its hot springs, which has given its name to various objects.
Bathed (imp. & p. p.) of Bathe
Bathing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bathe
Bathe (v. t.) To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath.
Bathe (v. t.) To lave; to wet.
Bathe (v. t.) To moisten or suffuse with a liquid.
Bathe (v. t.) To apply water or some liquid medicament to; as, to bathe the eye with warm water or with sea water; to bathe one's forehead with camphor.
Bathe (v. t.) To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed.
Bathe (v. i.) To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths.
Bathe (v. i.) To immerse or cover one's self, as in a bath.
Bathe (v. i.) To bask in the sun.
Bathe (n.) The immersion of the body in water; as to take one's usual bathe.
Bather (n.) One who bathes.
Bathetic (a.) Having the character of bathos.
Bathing (n.) Act of taking a bath or baths.
Bathmism (n.) See Vital force.
Bathometer (n.) An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line.
Bathorse (n.) A horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign.
Bathos (n.) A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.
Bathybius (n.) A name given by Prof. Huxley to a gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He supposed that it was free living protoplasm, covering a large part of the ocean bed. It is now known that the substance is of chemical, not of organic, origin.
Bathymetric (a.) Alt. of Bathymetrical
Bathymetrical (a.) Pertaining to bathymetry; relating to the measurement of depths, especially of depths in the sea.
Bathymetry (n.) The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in the sea.
Bating (prep.) With the exception of; excepting.
Batiste (n.) Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton.
Batlet (n.) A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff.
Batman (n.) A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds.
Batmen (pl. ) of Batman
Batman (n.) A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load.
Batoidei (n. pl.) The division of fishes which includes the rays and skates.
Baton (n.) A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances.
Baton (n.) An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister.
Batoon (n.) See Baton, and Baston.
Bat printing () A mode of printing on glazed ware.
Batrachia (n. pl.) The order of amphibians which includes the frogs and toads; the Anura. Sometimes the word is used in a wider sense as equivalent to Amphibia.
Batrachian (a.) Pertaining to the Batrachia.
Batrachian (n.) One of the Batrachia.
Batrachoid (a.) Froglike. Specifically: Of or pertaining to the Batrachidae, a family of marine fishes, including the toadfish. Some have poisonous dorsal spines.
Batrachomyomachy (n.) The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship.
Batrachophagous (a.) Feeding on frogs.
Batsmen (pl. ) of Batsman
Batsman (n.) The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc.
Bat's-wing (a.) Alt. of Batwing
Batwing (a.) Shaped like a bat's wing; as, a bat's-wing burner.
Batta (n.) Extra pay; esp. an extra allowance to an English officer serving in India.
Batta (n.) Rate of exchange; also, the discount on uncurrent coins.
Battable (a.) Capable of cultivation; fertile; productive; fattening.
Battailant (v. i.) Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike.
Battailant (n.) A combatant.
Battailous (n.) Arrayed for battle; fit or eager for battle; warlike.
Battalia (n.) Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval force, for action.
Battalia (n.) An army in battle array; also, the main battalia or body.
Battalion (n.) A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array.
Battalion (n.) A regiment, or two or more companies of a regiment, esp. when assembled for drill or battle.
Battalion (v. t.) To form into battalions.
Battel (n.) A single combat; as, trial by battel. See Wager of battel, under Wager.
Battel (n.) Provisions ordered from the buttery; also, the charges for them; -- only in the pl., except when used adjectively.
Battel (v. i.) To be supplied with provisions from the buttery.
Battel (v. i.) To make fertile.
Battel (a.) Fertile; fruitful; productive.
Batteler (n.) Alt. of Battler
Battler (n.) 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.
Battened (imp. & p. p.) of Batten
Battening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Batten
Batten (v. t.) To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten.
Batten (v. t.) To fertilize or enrich, as land.
Batten (v. i.) To grow fat; to grow fat in ease and luxury; to glut one's self.
Batten (n .) 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.
Batten (v. t.) To furnish or fasten with battens.
Batten (v. t.) The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.
Battening (n.) Furring done with small pieces nailed directly upon the wall.
Battered (imp. & p. p.) of Batter
Battering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Batter
Batter (v. t.) 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.
Batter (v. t.) To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.
Batter (v. t.) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
Batter (v. t.) A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery.
Batter (v. t.) Paste of clay or loam.
Batter (v. t.) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
Batter (n.) A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.
Batter (v. i.) To slope gently backward.
Batter (n.) One who wields a bat; a batsman.
Batterer (n.) One who, or that which, batters.
Battering-ram (n.) An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places.
Battering-ram (n.) A blacksmith's hammer, suspended, and worked horizontally.
Battering train () A train of artillery for siege operations.
Batteries (pl. ) of Battery
Battery (v. t.) The act of battering or beating.
Battery (v. t.) The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him.
Battery (v. t.) Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or defense.
Battery (v. t.) Two or more pieces of artillery in the field.
Battery (v. t.) A company or division of artillery, including the gunners, guns, horses, and all equipments. In the United States, a battery of flying artillery consists usually of six guns.
Battery (v. t.) A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously.
Battery (v. t.) An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity.
Battery (v. t.) A number of similar machines or devices in position; an apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts; as, a battery of boilers, of retorts, condensers, etc.
Battery (v. t.) A series of stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals.