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The whole class of divinities to whom the name Baal was applied. Judges x. 6.

The state of bachelorhood; the whole body of bachelors.

dust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface.

e. -- Ball valve (Mach.), a contrivance by which a ball, placed in a circular cup with a hole in its bottom, operates as a valve. -- Ball vein (Mining), a sort of iron ore, found in loose masses of a globular form, containing sparkling particles. -- Three balls, or Three golden balls, a pawnbroker's sign or shop.…

three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy.

The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district. Ballot box, a box for receiving ballots.

- Bank swallow, a small American and European swallow (Clivicola riparia) that nests in a hole which it excavates in a bank.

The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession.

A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.

The whole body of barons or peers. The baronage of the kingdom. Bp. Burnet.

A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc.

A part of a brick with one whole end. Bat bolt (Machinery), a bolt barbed or jagged at its butt or tang to make it hold the more firmly. Knight.

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

engthen a part, to cover a crack, etc. Batten door (Arch.), a door made of boards of the whole length of the door, secured by battens nailed crosswise.

attery. See Barbette. -- Battery d'enfilade, or Enfilading battery, one that sweeps the whole length of a line of troops or part of a work. -- Battery en écharpe, one that plays obliquely. -- Battery gun, a gun capable of firing a number, of shots simultaneously or successively without stopping to load. -- Battery…

A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life. The whole intellectual battle that had at its center the best poem of the best poet of that day. H. Morley.

pl. The whole parapet, 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 principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers.

A pin which plays in and out of holes made to receive it, and which thus serves to engage or disengage parts of the machinery. Bayonet clutch. See Clutch. -- Bayonet joint, a form of coupling similar to that by which a bayonet is fixed on the barrel of a musket. Knight.

The whole; all that is to be. [Poetic] Shak.