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Act of taking a bath or baths. Bathing machine, a small room on wheels, to be driven into the water, for the convenience of bathers, who undress and dress therein.

With the exception of; excepting. We have little reason to think that they bring many ideas with them, bating some faint ideas of hunger and thirst. Locke.

Furring done with small pieces nailed directly upon the wall.

A train of artillery for siege operations.

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

The act of one who bats; the management of a bat in playing games of ball. Mason.

, a. See Bawbling. [Obs.]

Insignificant; contemptible. [Obs.]

Molding in imitation of beads.

Emitting beams; radiant.

In a beaming manner; radiantly.

n which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage. I know him by his bearing. Shak.

A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. Shak.

A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein.

In a balloon, the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functionally analogous to the keel of a ship.

See Biestings.

The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.

Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting. A low and becoming tone. Thackeray.

In a becoming manner.

The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness. The becomingness of human nature. Grew.