Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BAT'-HAUNT-ED, a.

Haunted with bats. – Wordsworth.

BATHE, v.i.

To be or lie in a bath; to be in water, or in other liquid, or to be immersed in a fluid, as in a bath; as, to bathe in fiery floods. – Shak.

BATHE, v.t. [Sax. bathian, to wash. See Bath. Qu. W. bozi, to immerse.]

1. To wash the body, or some part of it, by immersion, as in a bath: it often differs from ordinary washing in a longer application of water, to the body or to a particular part, as for the purpose of cleansing or stimulating the skin.
2. To wash or moisten, for the purpose of making soft and supple, or for cleansing, as a wound.
3. To moisten or suffuse with a liquid; as, to bathe in tears or blood.

BATH'ED, pp.

Washed as in a bath; moistened with a liquid; bedewed.

BATH'ER, n.

One who bathes; one who immerses himself in water, or who applies a liquid to himself or to another. – Tooke.

BATH'ING, n.

The act of bathing, or washing the body in water. – Mason.

BATH'ING, ppr.

Washing by immersion, or by applying a liquid; moistening; fomenting.

BATH'ING-TUB, n.

A vessel for bathing, usually made either of wood or tin. In the Royal Library at Paris, I saw a bathing tub of porphyry, of beautiful form and exquisite workmanship.

BA'THOS, n. [Gr. βαθος; allied to Eng. bottom, and perhaps to W. bozi, to immerse.]

The art of sinking in poetry. – Arbuthnot.

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.