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To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like. [Archaic] If they banter your regularity, order, and love of study, banter in return their neglect of them. Chatham.

An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field.

To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc. But rattling storm of arrows barbed with fire. Milton.

One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers.

A gauzelike fabric for ladies' dresses, veils, etc. of worsted, silk and worsted, or cotton and worsted.

d long scale, for measuring heights. -- Siphon barometer, a barometer having a tube bent like a hook with the longer leg closed at the top. The height of the mercury in the longer leg shows the pressure of the atmosphere. -- Wheel barometer, a barometer with recurved tube, and a float, from which a cord passes over a…

A kind of cutting weapon with a thick back and thin razorlike edge, used by the Moros of the Philippine Islands.

A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant.

A voracious pikelike, marine fish, of the genus Sphyræna, sometimes used as food.

Formed like basalt; basaltiform.

s, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice. Make me not sighted like the basilisk. Shak.

the arms much branched. See Astrophyton. -- Basket hilt, a hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork to protect the hand. Hudibras. Hence, Baskethilted, a. -- Basket work, work consisting of plaited osiers or twigs. -- Basket worm (Zoöl.), a lepidopterous insect of the genus Thyridopteryx and allied genera, esp.…

A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor. Brown bastard is your only drink. Shak.

Bastardlike; baseborn; spuripous; corrupt. [Obs.] -- adv.

A warlike South African people of the Bantu stock, divided into many tribes, subject to the English. They formerly practiced cannibalism, but have now adopted many European customs.

Shaped like a bat's wing; as, a bat's-wing burner.

ody, for purposes of cleanliness, comfort, health, etc., to water, vapor, hot air, or the like; as, a cold or a hot bath; a medicated bath; a steam bath; a hip bath.

Froglike. Specifically: Of or pertaining to the Batrachidæ, a family of marine fishes, including the toadfish. Some have poisonous dorsal spines.

Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike. Spenser. -- n.

Arrayed for battle; fit or eager for battle; warlike. [Obs.] "In battailous aspect." Milton.