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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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602 words match “ATTLE”

Rubbish or refuse consisting of broken rock containing little or no ore. Weale.

Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips.

BATTELER; BATTLER n.

A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge. Wright.

BATTLE n. 7 definitions

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.

BATTLE RANGE n.

The range within which the fire of small arms is very destructive. With the magazine rifle, this is six hundred yards.

thousand tons displacement, and intended to be fit to meet the heaviest ships in line of battle.

BATTLE-AX; BATTLE-AXE n.

A kind of broadax formerly used as an offensive weapon.

Embattled. [Poetic] Tennyson.

BATTLEDOOR n. 2 definitions

archment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock.

BATTLEMENT n. 2 definitions

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

BATTLEMENTED a.

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

To make rattle; to scold vociferously; to cry down. [Obs.] Shak.

luding all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine. Belted cattle, Black cattle. See under Belted, Black. -- Cattle guard, a trench under a railroad track and alongside a crossing (as of a public highway). It is intended to prevent cattle from getting upon the track. -- cattle louse (Zoö…

EMBATTLE v. 3 definitions

To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle; also, to prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle. One in bright arms embattled full strong. Spenser. Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world. Emerson.

EMBATTLED a. 3 definitions

Having indentations like a battlement. [Obs.] Chaucer.

EMBATTLEMENT n. 2 definitions

An intended parapet; a battlement.

Embattled. [Obs.]

Excessively fertile; bearing rank or noxious growths. [Obs.] "Overbattle grounds." Hooker.

PITTLE-PATTLE v.

To talk unmeaningly; to chatter or prattle. [R.] Latimer.

PRATTLE v. 3 definitions

To utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason. Addison.