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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.

y 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.

To beat down; to overthrow. [Obs.] The King of Scots . . . sore abated the walls. Edw. Hall.

The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisance is the suppression thereof.

One who, or that which, abates.

To sour; to imbitter; to irritate.

Having acute lobes, as some leaves.

To express approbation of; to approve; to sanction officially. I approbate the one, I reprobate the other. Sir W. Hamilton.

Bearded; beset with long and weak hairs.

Having barbed points. A dart uncommonly barbated. T. Warton.

Divided into two lobes or segments.

One who breeds or originates quarrels. [Obs.] "No telltale nor no breedbate." Shak.

Celibate state; celibacy. [Obs.] He . . . preferreth holy celibate before the estate of marrige. Jer. Taylor.

To repeat the distillation of, pouring the liquor back upon the matter remaining in the vessel. Arbuthnot.

A salt of columbic acid; a niobate. See Columbium.

One who combats. Sherwood.