Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BATH'ROOM, n.

An apartment for bathing. Tooke.

BAT'ING, ppr. [from bate.]

Abating; taking away; deducting; excepting. Children have few ideas, bating some faint ideas of hunger and thirst. Locke.

BAT'IN-IST, n.

See BATENITES.

BAT'IST, n.

A fine linen cloth made in Flanders and Picardy, of three different kinds or thicknesses. Encyc.

BAT'LET, n. [from bat.]

A small bat, or square piece of wood with a handle, for beating linen when taken out of the buck. Johnson.

BAT'MAN, n.

A weight used in Smyrna, of six okes, each of 400 drams; equal to 16 lbs. 6 oz. 15 dr. English. BA-TOON' or BAT'ON, n. [Fr. bâton, from baston. See Baste.] A staff or club; a marshal's staff; a truncheon; a badge of military honors. Johnson.

BA-TRA'CHI-A, n. [plur. See Batrachian.]

Animals of the frog kind. Cuvier. Bell.

BA-TRA'CHI-AN, a. [Gr. βατραχος, a frog.]

Pertaining to frogs; an epithet designating an order of animals, including frogs, toads, and similar animals. Barnes.

BA-TRA'CHI-AN, n.

An animal of the order above mentioned.

BAT'RA-CHITE, n. [Gr. βατραχος, a frog.]

A fossil or stone in color resembling a frog. Ash.

BAT'RA-CHOID, a. [Gr. βατραχος, a frog.]

Having the form of a frog.

BAT'RA-CHOM-Y-OM'A-CHY, n. [Gr. βατραχος, a frog, μυς, a mouse, and μαχη, a battle.]

The battle between the frogs and mice, a burlesque poem ascribed to Homer.

BAT-RA-CHOPH'A-GOUS, a.

Feeding on frogs. Qu. Rev.

BATS'MAN, n.

In cricket, the man who has the bat.

BAT'TA-BLE, a.

Capable of cultivation. [Not in use.] Burton.

BAT'TAIL-ANT, n. [See Battle.]

A combatant. [Not used.] Shelton.

BAT'TAIL-OUS, a. [See Battle.]

Warlike; having the form or appearance of an army arrayed for battle; marshaled, as for an attack. Milton. Fairfax.

BAT-TAL'IA, n. [Sp. batalla; It. battaglia, battle. See Battle.]

1. The order of battle; troops arrayed in their proper brigades, regiments, battalions, &c., as for action.
2. The main body of an army in array, distinguished from the wings. Johnson.

BAT-TAL'ION, n. [Fr. bataillon. See Battle.]

A body of infantry, consisting of from 500 to 800 men; so called from being originally a body of men arrayed for battle. A battalion is generally a body of troops next below a regiment. Sometimes a battalion composes a regiment; more generally a regiment consists of two or more battalions. Johnson. Encyc. Shakspeare uses the word for an army.

BAT-TAL'ION-ED, a.

Formed into battalions. Barlow.

BAT'TEL, a. [See Batten.]

Fertile; fruitful. [Not used.] Hooker.

BAT'TEL, n.

An account of the expenses of a student at Oxford.

BAT'TEL, n. [See Battle.]

In law, wager of battel, a species of trial for the decision of causes between parties. This species of trial is of high antiquity, among the rude military people of Europe. It was introduced into England by William, the Norman Conqueror, and used in three cases only: in the court martial, or court of chivalry or honor; in appeals of felony; and in issues joined upon a writ of right. The contest was had before the judges, on a piece of ground inclosed, and the combatants were bound to fight till the stars appeared, unless the death of one party or victory sooner decided the contest. It is no longer in use. Blackstone.

BAT'TEL, v.i.

1. To grow fat. [Not in use.] [See Batten.]
2. To stand indebted in the college books at Oxford, for provisions and drink from the buttery. Hence a batteler answers to a sizer at Cambridge.

BAT'TEL-ER, or BAT'TLER, n.

A student at Oxford.