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b; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.

To remove. [Obs.] About autumn bate the earth from about the roots of olives, and lay them bare. Holland.

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

A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load. Macaulay.

row 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 batten on the hideous facts in history, -- persecutions, inquisitions. Emerson.

Paste of clay or loam. Holland.

the whole length of a line of troops or part of a work. -- Battery en écharpe, one that plays obliquely. -- Battery gun, a gun capable of firing a number, of shots simultaneously or successively without stopping to load. -- Battery wagon, a wagon employed to transport the tools and materials for repair of the carria…

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

flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock.

iece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything. The ineffective bauble of an Indian pagod. Sheridan.

A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery. Bayonet clutch. See Clutch. -- Bayonet joint, a form of coupling similar to that by which a bayonet is fixed on the barrel of a musket. Knight.

A fair for the sale of fancy wares, toys, etc., commonly for a charitable objects. Macaulay.

minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial. Macaulay.

To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum. Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small. Ex. xxx. 36. They did beat the gold into thin plates. Ex. xxxix. 3.…

A layer or seam, or a horizontal stratum between layers; as, a bed of coal, iron, etc.

The state or position of beds and layers.

decrepit, sick, and bedrid father." Shak. "The estate of a bedridden old gentleman." Macaulay.

One of an association of religious laymen living in imitation of the Beguines. They arose in the thirteenth century, were afterward subjected to much persecution, and were suppressed by Innocent X. in

To trace or lay the foundation of; to make or place a beginning of. The apostle begins our knowledge in the creatures, which leads us to the knowledge of God. Locke.

dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in. Books falling to pieces and begrimed with dust. Macaulay.