Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BAT-TOL'O-GIST, n. [See Battology.]

One that repeats the same thing in speaking or writing. [Little used.] Whitlock.

BAT-TOL'O-GIZE, v.t.

To repeat needlessly the same thing. [Little used.] Herbert.

BAT-TOL'O-GY, n. [Gr. βαττολογια, from βαττος, a garrulous person, and λογος, discourse.]

A needless repetition of words in speaking. Ash. Encyc.

BAT'TON, n. [from bat.]

In commerce, pieces of wood or deal for flooring, or other purposes. Encyc.

BAT'TO-RY, n.

Among the Hans Towns, a factory or magazine which the merchants have in foreign countries. Encyc.

BAT'TU-LATE, v.t.

To interdict commerce. [A word used by the Levant Company.] Eton.

BAT-TU-LA'TION, n.

A prohibition of commerce. Eton.

BAT-TU'TA, n. [It.]

The measuring of time by beating.

BAT'TY, a. [from bat, an animal.]

Belonging to a bat. Shak.

BATZ, n.

A small copper coin with a mixture of silver, current in some parts of Germany and Switzerland. Encyc.

BAU-BEE', n. [Qu. Fr. bas-billon.]

In Scotland and the North of England, a half penny. Johnson.

BAUGE, n.

A drugget manufactured in Burgundy, with thread spun thick, and of coarse wool. Encyc.

BAULK,

See BALK.

BAV'A-ROY, n.

A kind of cloke or surtout. Johnson.

BAV'IN, n.

A stick like those bound up in fagots; a piece of waste wood. In war, brush, fagots. Johnson. Encyc.

BAW'BLE, n. [Fr. babiole, a toy, or baby-thing; according to Spelman, baubella are gems or jewels.]

A trifling piece of finery; a gew-gaw; that which is gay or showy without real value. Dryden.

BAWB'LING, a.

Trifling; contemptible. [Obs.] Shak.

BAW'-COCK, n.

A fine fellow. [Qu. beau-cock.] Shak.

BAWD, n. [I know not the origin of this word; but in French, baudir is a term in hunting, signifying to excite or encourage dogs to the chase; formed, according to Lunier, from the Low Latin, baldire, or exbaldire, to enliven, to quicken; which, from the Italian baldo, baldanza, appears to be from the root of Eng. bold, the primary sense of which is, to project, to push or rush forward. In W. pud is what tends to allure. But one author quotes Hesychius, as giving Gr. βαδας, a procurer or procuress.]

A procurer or procuress. A person who keeps a house of prostitution, and conducts criminal intrigues. [Usually applied to females.]

BAWD, v.i.

1. To procure; to provide women for lewd purposes.
2. To foul or dirty. [Not in use.] Skelton.

BAWD'-BORN, a.

Descended from a bawd. Shak.

BAWD'I-LY, adv.

Obscenely; lewdly.

BAWD'I-NESS, n.

Obscenity; lewdness.

BAWD'RICK, n. [See Baldrick.]

A belt. Chapman.

BAWD'RY, n. [See Bawd.]

1. The abominable practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust.
2. Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language.