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

To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia. [Obs.] Hayward.

An armor-plated man-of-war built of steel and heavily armed, generally having from ten thousand to fifteen thousand tons displacement, and intended to be fit to meet the heaviest ships in line of battle.

consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches.

A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay. Sick bay, in vessels of war, that part of a deck appropriated to the use of the sick. Totten.

A window forming a bay or recess in a room, and projecting outward from the wall, either in a rectangular, polygonal, or semicircular form; -- often corruptly called a bow window.

de and wind. [Southern U. S.] A dark slender thread of a bayou moves loiteringly northeastward into a swamp of huge cypresses. G. W. Cable.

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

A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning. No flaming beacons cast their blaze afar. Gay.

ern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil.

A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam.

A deciduous plant of warm climates, generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow color, of the genus Zygophyllum.

To render or give; to bring forward. "Your testimony bear" Dryden.

A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.

To come; to get. [Obs.] But, madam, where is Warwick then become! Shak. To become of, to be the present state or place of; to be the fate of; to be the end of; to be the final or subsequent condition of. What is then become of so huge a multitude Sir W. Raleigh.

To make partaker of one's bed; to cohabit with. I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her. Shak.

A pan for warming beds. Nares.

A hive for a swarm of bees. Also used figuratively.

An advance of; farther onward, in place or time. The golden age . . . is before us. Carlyle.