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To give a portion of food and drink to, upon the road; as, to bait horses. Holland.

To stick together.[Obs.] Holland.

e about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank. "Banked well with earth." Holland.

A hog, esp. a male hog castrated. Holland.

r in the siege, of a fortified place. The high bastiles . . . which overtopped the walls. Holland.

A staff or cudgel. [Obs.] "To fight with blunt bastons." Holland.

To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat. Holland.

ent Germanic tribe; or to (b) as, a Batavian legion. Batavian Republic, the name given to Holland by the French after its conquest in 1795.

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

Paste of clay or loam. Holland.

Resembling bent. Holland.

To rate or chide vehemently; to scold. Holland. Motley.

sh; to exchange blows; to fight. [Obs.] Two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together. Holland.

A byland. [Obs.] Holland.

A small two-masted merchant vessel, fitted only for coasting, or for use in canals, as in Holland. Why choose we, then, like bilanders to creep Along the coast, and land in view to keep Dryden.

blood; bloodthirstiness. All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature. Holland.

llness; obtuseness; want of sharpness. The multitude of elements and bluntness of angles. Holland.

To swell; to puff. Holland.

To stave in; to bilge. [Obs.] Holland.

A brabble. [R.] Holland.