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Wisconsin; -- a nickname.

A trifle; a thing of no importance. Rich trifles, serious bagatelles. Prior.

To stammer. [Obs.]

A baldheaded person. Shak.

Destitute of hair on the head; baldheaded. Shak.

Bearded; beset with long and weak hairs.

Having barbed points. A dart uncommonly barbated. T. Warton.

Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point. Gray.

Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs.

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.

boat used on the Canadian lakes and rivers. [Written also, but less properly, batteau.] Bateau bridge, a floating bridge supported by bateaux.

Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath. Macaulay.

Exciting contention; contentious. [Obs.] "It did bateful question frame. " Sidney.

Not to be abated. [Obs.] Shak.

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.

Massachusetts, which had been called the Colony of Massachusetts Bay; -- a nickname.

Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.

Arkansas; -- a nickname, from the many bears once inhabiting its forests.

Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use. "A broad and beaten way." Milton. "Beaten gold." Shak.

One who, or that which, beats.