BATNER, S. An ox. BATOON, S. (Fr.) A cudgel. BATOUR, S. Batter. Warner. BATS, S. (1) The short furrows of an irregular field. South. (2) s. The game of cricket. Dev. (3) s. A beating. Yorksh. (4) s. The slaty part of coal after it is burnt white. Coal deteriorated by the presence of this slaty matter is said to be batty. Northampt. In Shropshire it is called bass, and in Yorkshire plate. BAT-SWAIN, S. (A.-S.) A sailor. BATT, v. (1) To beat gently. Shropsh. (2) To wink or move the eyelids up and down. Chesh. BATTABLE, adj. Capable of cultivation. BATTAILANT, S. (A.-N.) A combatant. BATTAILE, 8. (A.-N.) A battalion of an army. BATTALIA, S. (Fr.) (1) The order of battle. (2) The main body of an army in array. BATTED, part. p. Stone worked off with a tool instead of being rubbed smooth. A stonemason's term. BATTEN, (1) v. (A.-S.) To thrive; to grow fat. North. (2) 8. (3) s. The straw of two sheaves folded together. North. See Bat. BATTEN-BOARD, 8. A thatcher's tool for beating down thatch. BATTEN-FENCE, s. A fence made by nailing two or three rails to upright posts. BATTER, (1) s. (perhaps from A.-N. abattre.) An abatement; a wall which diminishes upwards is said to batter, Sussex. (2) s. Dirt. North. (3) v. To fight one's way. Midland C. (4) v. To wear out. South. BATTERO, 8. A bat. BATTICLE, S. A moveable wooden cross-bar to which the traces of husbandry horses are secured. Northampt. BATTID, adj. Covered with strips of wood, as walls are previously to their being plastered. BATTIL, BATTEL, v. (A.-S.) To grow fat. Also, to fatten others. For sleep, they said, would make her battil better. Sp., F. Q., VI, viii. 38. Ashes are a marvellous improvement to battle barren land. Ray's Prov., 238. BATTING, S. A bottle of straw. BATTLE, (1) v. To dry in ointment (3) v. To render ground fertile by applying manure. (4) v. To go about a room with wet and dirty shoes. Northampt. (5) v. To bespatter with mud. Battled, splashed or bespattered with mud. (6) v. To take up commons at a college, without immediately paying for them. Skinner derives it from the Dutch betaalen, to pay, a term which appears to have been formed from the ancient manner of keeping accounts by tallies, or tale. Eat my commons with a good stomach, and battled with discretion. Puritan, ii, p. 543. BATTLED, part. p. Embattled. BATTLEDORE, 8. (1) A hornbook, and hence no doubt arose the phrase "to know a B from a battledoor," implying a very slight degree of learning, or the being hardly able to distinguish one thing from another. It is sometimes found in early printed works, as if it should be thus written, "to know A. B. from a battledoor." You shall not neede to buy bookes; no, scorne to distinguish a B. from a battledoore; onely looke that your eares be long enough to reach our rudiments, and you are made for ever. Guls Horne-booke, 1609, p. 3. (2) A flat wooden implement, with a slit at one end for the hand, used in mending thatch, to push the ends of the new straw under the old thatch. Northampt. BATTLEDORE-BARLEY, 8. A kind of barley, said to be so called "from the flatness of the ear." Aubrey's Wilts. BATTLER, 8. (1) A small bat to play at ball. (2) An Oxford student; properly one who pays for nothing but what he calls for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge. BATTLE-ROYAL, 8. A fight between several cocks, where the one that stands longest is the victor. BATTLES, 8. Cumberl. BATTLET, Commons or board. BATLING-STAFF, 8. A kind of flat wooden BEETLE, mallet used to beat linen with, in order to whiten it. See Batler. BATTLETWIG, S. An earwig. Midland Counties and North. BATTLING-STONE, 8. A large smooth-faced stone, set in a sloping position by the side of a stream, on which washerwomen beat their linen. North. BATTOLOGIST, 8. (Gr.) One who constantly repeats the same thing. BATTOLOGIZE, v. To repeat continually the same thing. BATTOLOGY, s. (Gr. βαττολογία.) N The frequent repetition of the same thing. BATTOM, 8. A narrow board, the full breadth of the tree from which it is sawn. North. BATTON, S. (Fr.) (1) A club or weapon. (2) Strong, broad, fencing rails. Norf. (3) Doors made by the boards being nailed to rails or bars are called batton-doors, in contradistinction to such as are panelled. (4) Narrow deals with which the best floors are laid. BATTRIL, S. A bathing-staff. Lanc. BATTRY, 8. A copper or brass wide-mouthed vessel, not riveted together, as plates of metal are in larger vessels, but hammered or batter'd into union, as teakettles, &c., are. BATTS, 8. (1) Low, flat grounds adjoining rivers; sometimes, islands in rivers. North. (2) Short ridges. Wight. BATTY, adj. (1) Belonging to a bat; in the manner of bats. (2) A term applied to coal. See Bats. BATWELL, 8. A wicker strainer to put over the spigot in the mashvat, to prevent the grains from passing through. Leic. BATYN, v. To make debate. Pr. P. BAUBEE, 8. A copper coin, of about the value of a halfpenny. BAUBERY, 8. A squabble; a brawl. Var. dial. See Bobbery. BAUD, (1) 8. (4.-N.) A procurer, procuress, or keeper of a brothel, or any one employed in bad services in this line, whether male or female. For cloth of gold, or tinsel figurie, BAUDRICK,} 8. See Baldrick. BAUDRY, 8. Bad language. Skelton. of Durham seems to mean the week in which they are not paid, they being paid fortnightly. Hone's Table Book, i, 654. BAUGER, adj. Bald; barbarous ; bad. Than brought he forth another byll, conteyning the said sentence; and that also he redde in his bauger Latine. Bale, Sir J. Oldcastell. BAUGH, (1) 8. A pudding made with milk and flour only. Chesh. (2) v. To bark. BAUGHLING, S. Wrangling. Cumb. BAULCHIN, 8. An unfledged bird. Warw. BAULK, v. To overlook or pass by a hare in her form without seeing her. BAULKY, adj. A term applied to earth which digs up in clots. North. BAULME-MINT, s. Water mint. BAUN-COCK, 8. A game cock. Durham. BAUNSEY, 8. A badger. Prompt. P. BAURGHWAN, 8. A horse-collar. Yorksh. BAUSE, v. To kiss. See Base. BAUSON, adj. Swelled; pendant. Shropsh. BAUSTON, BOUSON, BAUTERT, adj. Encrusted with dirt. North. BAUX-HOUND, 8. A kind of hunting dog. BAVAROY, 8. (Fr.) A kind of cloak or surtout. Let the loop'd bavaroy the fop embrace, Or his deep cloke be spatter'd o'er with lace. Gay. BAVEN, s. A brush faggot, proBAVIN, perly bound with only one withe, a faggot being bound with two. Bavins will have their flashes, and youth their fancies, the one as soon quenched as the other is burnt. Mother Bombie, 1594. With coals and with bavins, and a good warm chair. Old Song. The skipping king, he ambled up and down With shallow jesters and rash bavin wits Soon kindled and soon burnt. 1 Hen. IV, iii, 2. (2) s. A bundle of small wood. Berks. BAVENS, 8. A kind of cake. BAVERE, 8. Bavaria. BAVIAN, 8. A baboon, or monkey; an occasional, but not a regular character in the old Morris dance. BAVIER, 8. (4.-N.) The beaver of a helmet. BAVIN, 8. Impure limestone. BAVISENESSE, s. (A.-N.) Mockery. BAVISH, v. To drive away. East. BAW. (1) An interjection of contempt. (2) s. A boy. East. (3) s. A ball. North. (4) s. A dumpling. Lanc. (5) v. To bark. See Baugh. (6) v. Alvum levare. Lanc. BAWATY, 8. Lindsey-wolsey. North. BAWCOCK, 8. (conjectured to be a corruption of the Fr. beau coq.) A burlesque word of endearment. Why that's my bawcock. What has Shakesp., W. Tale, i, 2. At a later period the word bawcock was used to signify a rogue. BAWD, (1) 8. The outer covering of a walnut. Somerset. See Bad. (2) pret. t. Bawled. Yorksh. (3) s. A hare. A word used chiefly in Scotland. BAWDER, v. To scold grumblingly. Suffolk. BAWE, s. A species of worm for merly used as a bait for fishing. BAWE-LINE, S. The bowling of a sail; that rope which is fastened to the middle part of the outside of a sail. BAWER, 8. A maker of balls. Staffordsh. BAWK, (1) v. To relinquish. How? let her go? by no means, sir. It shall never be read in chronicle, that sir Arther Addel (my renowned friend) bawk'd a mistress for fear of rivals. Caryl, Sir Salomon, 1691. (2) s. A balk in ploughing. (3) s. A beam. Bawk-hert, the height of the beam. Cumb. BAW, S. A bow. BAWKER, S. A sort of sand-stone used for whetting scythes. Somerset. See Balker. These round hills and square bawns, which you see so strongly trenched and thrown up, were at first ordained that people might assemble themselves therein. Spenser's State of Ireland. (2) adj. Ready; going. North. BAWND, adj. Swollen. East. BAWNDONLY, adv. (A.-N.) Cheerfully. BAWRELL, S. (A.-N.) A kind of hawk. The male bird was called a bawret. BAWSE, v. To scream. BAWSIN, (1) s. An imperious Lingua, O. Pl., v. 232. (2) adj. Great; large; unwieldy; swelled. Coles has "a great bawsin, ventrosus." (3) s. A badger. See Bauson. BAWSAND, adj. Streaked with BAWSONT, white upon the face: a term applied only to horses and cattle. BAWSTONE,S. Abadger. Prompt.P. BAWT, (1) prep. Without. Yorksh. (2) v. To roar; to cry. North. BAWY, S. A boy. BAXTER, S. (1) A baker. See backster. (2) An implement for baking cakes, common in old houses. North. BAY, (1) s. A berry. (2) A high pond-head to keep in the water, for driving the wheels of the furnace or hammer belonging to an iron mill. Blount. In Dorsetshire, any bank across a stream is called a bay. Cotgrave mentions "a bay of land." (3) s. The space between the main beams in a barn. Northampt. (4) s. A principal compartment or division in the architectural arrangement of a building,marked either by the buttresses on the walls, by the disposition of the main ribs of the vaulting of the interior, by the main arches and pillars, the principals of the roof, or by any other leading features that separate it into corresponding portions. The word is sometimes used for the space between the mullions of a window. Houses were estimated by the number of bays: If this law hold in Vienna ten years, I'll rent the fairest house in it, after three-pence a bay. Meas. for M., ii, 1. Of one baye's breadth, God wot, a silly coate Whose thatched spars are furr'd with (5) s. A pole; a stake. (8) adj. Round. Gaw. (9) v. (4.-S. bugan.) To bend. Cumberl. (10) v. To bark. Miege. (12) 8. The nest of a squirrel. (13) s. A hole in a breast-work to receive the mouth of a cannon. (14) v. To unlodge a martern. Blome. (15) v. To bleat. BAYARD, S. (4.-N.) Properly a bay horse, but often applied to a horse in general. "As bold as blind bayard," is an old proverb. BAY-BERRY, S. The fruit of the laurel. Bacca lauri. Sapνóкоккos, Pelagonio. BAYLES, S. A bucket. BAYLY, 8. (A.-N.) Authority; anything given in charge to a bailiff or guard. BAYLYD, part. p. Boiled. BAYN, 8. (4.-S. bana.) A murderer. BAYNYD, part. p. Shelled for table, as beans, &c. Prompt. P. BAYTE, v. (4.-S.) To avail; to be useful; to apply to any use. BAYTHE, V. To grant. Gaw. BAYTING, 8. A chastisement. BAY-WINDOW, s. A large window; supposed to derive this name from its occupying the whole bay. It usually projected outwards, in a rectangular or polygonal form, or sometimes semicircular, from whence the corrupted form bow-window arose. BAY-YARN, S. Another name for woollen-yarn. BAYYD, adj. Prompt. P. BAZANS, 8. A sort of leather boots, mentioned by Mat. Paris. BAZE, v. To alarm. North. BE, (1) prep. (A.-S.) By. Of a bay colour. (2) part. p. Been. In the prov. dialects, be is often used as the pres. t. of the verb. (3) Be, bi, or by, is used as a BEACE, S. (1) Cattle. North. waves. |