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One of the beams connecting the successive supports of a trestle bridge or bateau bridge.

Of or pertaining to a bath. Howell.

A bathing room. Sir T. Browne.

The act of bathing. [R.]

Belonging to a bath. [Obs.]

A description of baths.

A treatise on baths; the science of bathing.

The treatment of disease by baths.

flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle. Hang out our banners on the outward walls. Shak.

Lit., May you live ten thousand years; -- used in salutation of the emperor and as a battle cry. [Japan]

r half ball at each end; -- formerly used for destroying the masts or rigging in naval combat. -- Bar sinister (Her.), a term popularly but erroneously used for baton, a mark of illegitimacy. See Baton. -- Bar tracery (Arch.), ornamental stonework resembling bars of iron twisted into the forms required. -- Blank bar…

A European bat (Barbastellus communis), with hairy lips.

fire over the top of a parapet, and not through embrasures. -- Barbette gun, or Barbette battery, a single gun, or a number of guns, mounted in barbette, or partially protected by a parapet or turret. -- Barbette carriage, a gun carriage which elevates guns sufficiently to be in barbette. [See Illust. of Casemate.]…

ion between the basement and the wall above. -- Base hit (Baseball), a hit, by which the batsman, without any error on the part of his opponents, is able to reach the first base without being put out. -- Base line. (a) A main line taken as a base, as in surveying or in military operations. (b) A line traced round a c…

See Baton.

Same as Bathorse.

To bathe. [Obs.] Spenser.

The bearded loach (Nemachilus barbatus) of Europe. [Scot.]

To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass. He beat them in a bloody battle. Prescott. For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. M. Arnold.

To bathe; also, to dry or heat, as unseasoned wood. [Obs.] Spenser.