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On the back, or with the back downward. Thou wilt fall backward. Shak.

A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.

To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.

To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.

esting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater.

A piece of pork cut lower down than the sparerib, and destitute of fat. [Eng.] Southey.

, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech. The highest things were thus brought down to the banalities of discourse. J. Morley.

To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the piano.

A narrow window seat; a raised shelf at the back or the top of a buffet or dresser.

peedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house.

A slender strip of wood which divides and supports the glass of a window; a sash bar. Bar shoe (Far.), a kind of horseshoe having a bar across the usual opening at the heel, to protect a tender frog from injury. -- Bar shot, a double headed shot, consisting of a bar, with a ball or half ball at each end; -- formerly u…

ht of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates - or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.

To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower. [Obs.] If any . . . based his pike. Sir T. North.

To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower. He must either bate the laborer's wages, or not employ or not pay him. Locke.

Abatement; diminution. Moxon. Batement light (Arch.), a window or one division of a window having vertical sides, but with the sill not horizontal, as where it follows the rake of a staircase.

To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed. "The rosy shadows bathe me. " Tennyson. "The bright sunshine bathing all the world." Longfellow.

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.

1. (Mil.) An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places.

The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down.

ng, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers.