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To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten. "Battening our flocks." Milton.

Furring done with small pieces nailed directly upon the wall.

To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart.

One who, or that which, batters.

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 battering or beating.

A large, edible, siluroid fish of the Nile, of two species (Bagrina bayad and B. docmac).

To flatter excessively.

To scatter over.

To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.

To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. [Archaic] "The rain blattered." Jeffrey. They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer.

Blattering.

One who blatters; a babbler; a noisy, blustering boaster.

Senseless babble or boasting.

A senseless babbler or boaster. [Obs.] "I hate such blatteroons." Howell.

See under Battery, and Burner.

Any item of movable or immovable property except the freehold, or the things which are parcel of it. It is a more extensive term than goods or effects.

The act or condition of holding chattels; the state of being a chattel.

mble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct. The jaw makes answer, as the magpie chatters. Wordsworth.