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A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.

A mode of printing on glazed ware.

Shaped like a bat's wing; as, a bat's-wing burner.

Disputable. [Obs.]

Embattled. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A cofferdam. Brande & C.

An aboriginal American name for the sweet potato (Ipomæa batatas).

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

uced at one operation; a group or collection of persons or things of the same kind; as, a batch of letters; the next batch of business. "A new batch of Lords." Lady M. W. Montagu.

To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower. He must either bate the laborer's wages, or not employ or not pay him. Locke.

med, clumsy boat used on the Canadian lakes and rivers. [Written also, but less properly, batteau.] Bateau bridge, a floating bridge supported by bateaux.

Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath. Macaulay.

Exciting contention; contentious. [Obs.] "It did bateful question frame. " Sidney.

Not to be abated. [Obs.] Shak.

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.

t. (b) The flying gurnard of the Atlantic (Cephalacanthus spinarella). (c) The California batfish or sting ray (Myliobatis Californicus.)

One who practices or finds sport in batfowling.

A mode of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost. The birds, flying to the light, are caught with nets or otherwise.

Rich; fertile. [Obs.] "Batful valleys." Drayton.

liness, comfort, health, etc., to water, vapor, hot air, or the like; as, a cold or a hot bath; a medicated bath; a steam bath; a hip bath.