Webster's Dictionary 1828

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BATTALIONED

BATTAL'IONED, adjective Formed into battalions.

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BATTEL

BAT'TEL, noun [See Battle.] In law, wager of battle, a species of trial for the decision of causes between parties. This species of trial is of high antiquity, among the rude mi...

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BATTELER

BAT'TELERBAT'TEMENT, noun A beating; striking;; impulse. [Not in use.]

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BATTEMENT

BAT'TEMENT, n. A beating; striking;; impulse. [Not in use.]

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BATTEN

BAT'TEN, verb transitive bat'n. [See Fat.]1. To fatten; to make fat; to make plump by plenteous feeding.2. To fertilize or enrich land.BAT'TEN, verb intransitive To grow or beco...

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BATTER

BAT'TER, verb transitive [Latin batuo, to beat. See Beat.]1. To beat with successive blows; to beat with violence, so as to bruise, shake, or demolish;, as, to batter a wall.2. ...

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BATTERED

BAT'TERED, participle passive Beaten; bruised, broken, impaired by beating or wearing.

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BATTERER

BAT'TERER, noun One who batters or beats.

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BATTERING

BAT'TERING, participle present tense Beating; dashing against; bruising or demolishing by beating.

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BATTERING-RAM

BAT'TERING-RAM, noun In antiquity, a military engine used to beat down the walls of besieged places. It was a large beam, with a head of iron somewhat resembling the head of a r...

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BATTERY

BAT'TERY, noun [See Beat.]1. The act of battering, or beating.2. The instrument of battering.3. In the military art, a parapet thrown up to cover the gunners and others employed...

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BATTING

BAT'TING, noun The management of a bat play.

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BATTISH

BAT'TISH, adjective [from bat, an animal.] Resembling a bat; as a battish humor.

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BATTLE

BAT'TLE, noun [See Beat.] Owen supposes the Welsh batel, to be from tel, tight, stretched, compact, and the word primarily to have expressed the drawing of the bow. This is prob...

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BATTLE-ARRAY

BATTLE-ARRA'Y, noun [battle and array.] Array or order of battle; the disposition of forces preparatory to a battle.

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BATTLE-AX

BAT'TLE-AXBAT'TLE-AXE, noun An ax anciently used as a weapon of war. It has been used till of late years by the highlanders in Scotland; and is still used by the city guards in ...

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BATTLE-AXE

BAT'TLE-AXE, n. An ax anciently used as a weapon of war. It has been used till of late years by the highlanders in Scotland; and is still used by the city guards in Edinburg, in...

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BATTLE-DOOR

BAT'TLE-DOOR, noun bat'tl-dore. An instrument of play, with a handle and a flat board or palm, used to strike a ball or shuttle-cock; a racket.1. A child's horn book. [Not in us...

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BATTLEMENT

BAT'TLEMENT, noun [This is said to have been bastillement, from bastille, a fortification.]A wall raised on a building with openings or embrasures, or theembrasure itself.

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BATTLEMENTED

BAT'TLEMENTED, adjective Secured by battlements.

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BATTLER

BAT'TLER, noun A student at Oxford.

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BATTLING

BAT'TLING, noun Conflict.

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BATTOLOGIST

BATTOL'OGIST, noun [See Battology.] One that repeats the same thing in speaking or writing. [Little used.]

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BATTOLOGIZE

BATTOL'OGIZE, verb transitive To repeat needlessly the same thing. [Little used.]

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BATTOLOGY

BATTOL'OGY, noun [Gr. from Barros, a garrulous person, and discourse.]A needless repetition of woods in speaking.

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BATTON

BAT'TON, noun [from bat.] In commerce, pieces of wood or deal for flooring, or other purposes.

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BATTORY

BAT'TORY, noun Among the Hans-Towns, a factory or magazine which the merchants have in foreign countries.