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A subdivision of a department. [France]

Aspiration. [Obs.]

Mitigation; abatement.

onal suffering, and death of Christ. When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best atonement be can make for it is, to warn others. Spectator. The Phocians behaved with, so much gallantry, that they were thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former offense. Potter.

Intent. [Obs.] Spenser.

Attire; adornment.

The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken. [R.] Milton.

Advisement; observation; deliberation. [Obs.]

Babble. Hawthorne.

The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.

A pie; baked food. [Obs.] Gen. xl. 17. Shak.

The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. [R.] Darwin.

The act of baptizing.[R.]

ubstructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively. Basement membrane (Anat.), a delicate membrane composed of a single layer of flat cells, forming the substratum upon which, in many organs, the epithelioid cells are disposed.

Abatement; diminution. Moxon. Batement light (Arch.), a window or one division of a window having vertical sides, but with the sill not horizontal, as where it follows the rake of a staircase.

One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.

Having battlements. A battlemented portal. Sir W. Scott.

The act of beguiling, or the state of being beguiled.

To make mean; to lower. C. Reade.

To meet. [Obs.] Our very loving sister, well bemet. Shak.