Battery (v. t.) The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down.
Battery (v. t.) The pitcher and catcher together.
Batting (n.) The act of one who bats; the management of a bat in playing games of ball.
Batting (n.) Cotton in sheets, prepared for use in making quilts, etc.; as, cotton batting.
Battle (a.) Fertile. See Battel, a.
Battle (v. t.) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.
Battle (v. t.) A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life.
Battle (v. t.) A division of an army; a battalion.
Battle (v. t.) The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia.
Battled (imp. & p. p.) of Battle
Battling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Battle
Battle (n.) To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories.
Battle (v. t.) To assail in battle; to fight.
Battle-ax (n.) Alt. of Battle-axe
Battle-axe (n.) A kind of broadax formerly used as an offensive weapon.
Battled (p. p.) Embattled.
Battledoor (n.) 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.
Battledoor (n.) A child's hornbook.
Battlement (n.) One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.
Battlement (n.) 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.
Battlemented (a.) Having battlements.
Battologist (n.) One who battologizes.
Battologize (v. t.) To keep repeating needlessly; to iterate.
Battology (n.) A needless repetition of words in speaking or writing.
Batton (n.) See Batten, and Baton.
Battue (v. t.) The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game.
Battue (v. t.) The game itself.
Battue (v. t.) The wanton slaughter of game.
Batture (n.) An elevated river bed or sea bed.
Battuta (n.) The measuring of time by beating.
Batty (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, a bat.
Batule (n.) A springboard in a circus or gymnasium; -- called also batule board.
Batzen (pl. ) of Batz
Batz (n.) A small copper coin, with a mixture of silver, formerly current in some parts of Germany and Switzerland. It was worth about four cents.
Baubee (n.) Same as Bawbee.
Bauble (n.) A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything.
Bauble (n.) The fool's club.
Baubling (a.) See Bawbling.
Baudekin (n.) The richest kind of stuff used in garments in the Middle Ages, the web being gold, and the woof silk, with embroidery : -- made originally at Bagdad.
Baudrick (n.) A belt. See Baldric.
Bauk (n. & v.) Alt. of Baulk
Baulk (n. & v.) See Balk.
Baunscheidtism (n.) A form of acupuncture, followed by the rubbing of the part with a stimulating fluid.
Bauxite (n.) Alt. of Beauxite
Beauxite (n.) A ferruginous hydrate of alumina. It is largely used in the preparation of aluminium and alumina, and for the lining of furnaces which are exposed to intense heat.
Bavarian (a.) Of or pertaining to Bavaria.
Bavarian (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Bavaria.
Bavaroy (n.) A kind of cloak or surtout.
Bavian (n.) A baboon.
Bavin (n.) A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood.
Bavin (n.) Impure limestone.
Bawbee (n.) A halfpenny.
Bawble (n.) A trinket. See Bauble.
Bawbling (a.) Insignificant; contemptible.
Bawcock (n.) A fine fellow; -- a term of endearment.
Bawd (n.) A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for a lewd purpose; a procurer or procuress; a lewd person; -- usually applied to a woman.
Bawd (v. i.) To procure women for lewd purposes.
Bawdily (adv.) Obscenely; lewdly.
Bawdiness (n.) Obscenity; lewdness.
Bawdrick (n.) A belt. See Baldric.
Bawdry (n.) The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust.
Bawdry (n.) Illicit intercourse; fornication.
Bawdry (n.) Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language.
Bawdy (a.) Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes.
Bawdy (a.) Obscene; filthy; unchaste.
Bawdyhouse (n.) A house of prostitution; a house of ill fame; a brothel.
Bawhorse (n.) Same as Bathorse.
Bawled (imp. & p. p.) of Bawl
Bawling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bawl
Bawl (v. i.) To cry out with a loud, full sound; to cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; to shout; to vociferate.
Bawl (v. i.) To cry loudly, as a child from pain or vexation.
Bawl (v. t.) To proclaim with a loud voice, or by outcry, as a hawker or town-crier does.
Bawl (n.) A loud, prolonged cry; an outcry.
Bawler (n.) One who bawls.
Bawn (n.) An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure.
Bawn (n.) A large house.
Bawrel (n.) A kind of hawk.
Bawsin (n.) Alt. of Bawson
Bawson (n.) A badger.
Bawson (n.) A large, unwieldy person.
Baxter (n.) A baker; originally, a female baker.
Bay (a.) Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses.
Bay (n.) An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character.
Bay (n.) A small body of water set off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc.
Bay (n.) A recess or indentation shaped like a bay.
Bay (n.) A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers.
Bay (n.) A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks.
Bay (n.) A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay.
Bay (n.) A berry, particularly of the laurel.
Bay (n.) The laurel tree (Laurus nobilis). Hence, in the plural, an honorary garland or crown bestowed as a prize for victory or excellence, anciently made or consisting of branches of the laurel.
Bay (n.) A tract covered with bay trees.
Bayed (imp. & p. p.) of Bay
Baying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bay
Bay (v. i.) To bark, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game.
Bay (v. t.) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay; as, to bay the bear.
Bay (v. i.) Deep-toned, prolonged barking.
Bay (v. i.) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
Bay (v. t.) To bathe.
Bay (n.) A bank or dam to keep back water.
Bay (v. t.) To dam, as water; -- with up or back.