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To stick together.[Obs.] Holland.

A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.

rd or thin wood, usually cylindrical, for holding ruffs (the bands of the 17th century), collars, caps, bonnets, etc.

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

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

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.

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

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

Paste of clay or loam. Holland.

The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.

To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.

Resembling bent. Holland.

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

A kind of collar or cape worn by ladies.

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

A byland. [Obs.] Holland.

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.

One in whom slight wounds give rise to profuse or uncontrollable bleeding.