Webster's Dictionary 1913

1081

Battel (4)

Bat″tel, v. t. [Cf. Batful, Batten, v. i.] To make fertile. “To battel barren land.” Ray.

1082

Battel (5)

Bat″tel, a. Fertile; fruitful; productive.A battel soil for grain, for pasture good.Fairfax.

1083

Batteler

{ Bat″tel‐er (�), Bat″tler } (�), n. [See 2d Battel, n.] A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he cal...

1084

Batten

Bat″ten (băt″t'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Battened (–t'nd); p. pr. & vb. n.Battening.] [See Batful.] 1. To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten. “Battening our flocks.” Milton.2...

1085

Batten (2)

Bat″ten, v. i. To grow fat; to grow fat in ease and luxury; to glut one's self. Dryden.The pampered monarch lay battening in ease.Garth.Skeptics, with a taste for carrion, who b...

1086

Batten (3)

Bat″ten, n. [F. bâton stick, staff. See Baton.] A strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling; as, (a) pl.(Com. & Arch.) Sawed timbers about 7 by 2 1/2 inches and not less than 6 feet ...

1087

Batten (4)

Bat″ten, v. t. To furnish or fasten with battens.To batten down, to fasten down with battens, as the tarpaulin over the hatches of a ship during a storm.

1088

Batten (5)

Bat″ten, n. [F. battant. See Batter, v. t.] The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.

1089

Battening

Bat″ten‐ing (�), n.(Arch.) Furring done with small pieces nailed directly upon the wall.

1090

Batter

Bat″ter (băt″tẽr), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Battered (–tẽrd); p. pr. & vb. n.Battering.] [OE. bateren, OF. batre, F. battre, fr. LL. battere, for L. batuere to strike, beat; of unknow...

1091

Batter (2)

Bat″ter, n. [OE. batere, batire; cf. OF. bateure, bature, a beating. See Batter, v. t.] 1. A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten toge...

1092

Batter (3)

Bat″ter, n. A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.Batter rule, an instrument consisting of a rule or frame, and a plumb line, by which the batter o...

1093

Batter (4)

Bat″ter, v. i.(Arch.) To slope gently backward.

1094

Batter (5)

Bat″ter, n. One who wields a bat; a batsman.

1095

Batterer

Bat″ter‐er (–tẽr‐ẽr), n. One who, or that which, batters.

1096

Battering train

Bat″ter‐ing train′ (�). (Mil.) A train of artillery for siege operations.

1097

Battering-ram

Bat″ter‐ing–ram′ (�), n. 1. (Mil.) An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places.☞ It was a large beam, with a head of iron, which was sometimes made...

1098

Battery

Bat″ter‐y (�), n.; pl.Batteries (�). [F. batterie, fr. battre. See Batter, v. t.] 1. The act of battering or beating.2. (Law) The unlawful beating of another. It includes every ...

1099

Batting

Bat″ting (�), n. 1. The act of one who bats; the management of a bat in playing games of ball. Mason.2. Cotton in sheets, prepared for use in making quilts, etc.; as, cotton bat...

1100

Battle

Bat″tle (�), a. Fertile. See Battel, a.

1101

Battle (2)

Bat″tle, n. [OE. bataille, bataile, F. bataille battle, OF., battle, battalion, fr. L. battalia, battualia, the fighting and fencing exercises of soldiers and gladiators, fr. ba...

1102

Battle (3)

Bat″tle (băt″t'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Battled (–tl'd); p. pr. & vb. n.Battling.] [F. batailler, fr. bataille. See Battle, n.] To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to batt...

1103

Battle (4)

Bat″tle, v. t. To assail in battle; to fight.

1104

Battle range

Bat″tle range′. (Mil.) The range within which the fire of small arms is very destructive. With the magazine rifle, this is six hundred yards.

1105

Battle ship

Battle ship. (Nav.) An armor-plated man-of-war built of steel and heavily armed, generally having from ten thousand to fifteen thousand tons displacement, and intended to be fit...

1106

Battle-ax

{ Bat″tle–ax′Bat″tle–axe′ } (–ăks′), n.(Mil.) A kind of broadax formerly used as an offensive weapon.

1107

Battled

Bat″tled (�), p. p. Embattled. Tennyson.