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A heap of rubbish, attle, etc.

A place of shelter for cattle. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Embattled. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship.

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

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

Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval force, for action. A drawing up the armies in battalia. Jer. Taylor.

A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array. "The whole battalion views." Milton.

Much talking; prattle; chatter. Byron.

An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure. [Obs.] Spenser.

To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass. He beat them in a bloody battle. Prescott. For loveliness, it would be hard to beat that. M. Arnold.

he fore part; in front, or in the direction of the front; -- opposed to in the rear. The battle was before and behind. 2 Chron. xiii. 14.

Worn in, or suspended from, the belt. Three men with belted brands. Sir W. Scott. Belted cattle, cattle originally from Dutch stock, having a broad band of white round the middle, while the rest of the body is black; -- called also blanketed cattle.

A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kinds of bestial. [Scot.]

To talk thoughtlessly or without discretion; to tattle; to tell tales. She must burst or blab. Dryden.

A tattler; a telltale.

eed of domestic fowls with glossy black plumage, blue legs and feet, bright red comb and wattles, and white face. They are remarkable as egg layers.

A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage. Sir W. Scott.

ake the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her. Blanket cattle. See Belted cattle, under Belted.

ened; make white. Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. Byron.