And in thi bastel fulle of blisfulnesse, Relation of the shipps, galies, galiases, and other shippinge; seamen, infantery, horsemen, officers, and particular persons; artillery, armies, munytions, and other necessaries which is thought to be needful in case shalbe performed the journey for Ingland, and the basti ments, with the prices that they may cost, the partes from whence both one and other is to be provided, and what all will amount unto, accompting the army, and at what shalbe levied for the sayd enterprize to goe provided, payd, and bastised for 8 months, as all is hereafter. Hatfield House Records. BASTISE, v. To victual. BASTON, S. (1) (A.-N.) A cudgel. (2) A sort of verse, of which the following appear to be examples: Hail be ye tailurs, with yur scharpe schores! To mak wronge hodes ye kitteth lome gores. Agens midwinter hote beth yur neldes ; The clerk that this baston wrowghte, (6) v. To wink. Derbysh. (7) s. The straw of two wheat sheaves tied together. Yorksh. (8) s. State; condition. North. (9) s. Speed. Linc. (10) s. A leaping-post. Somerset. (11) s. A low-laced boot. Ib. (12) s. The root end of a tree after it has been thrown. Ib. (13) s. A spade at cards. Ib. (14) s. The last parting that lies between the upper and the nether coal. Stafford. (15) s. A piece of sandstone used for sharpening scythes and other tools. Norf. BATABLE, (1) adj. Fertile in nutrition, applied to land. (2) s. Land disputed between two parties, more particularly that lying between England and Scotland, which was formerly called the batable ground. BATAILED, 8. (A.-N.) Embattled. BATAILOUS, adj. Ready for battle. BATAILS, 8. (A.-N.) Provisions. BATALE, v. To join in battle. BATALLE, S. (A.-N.) An army. BATAND, part. a. Going hastily. BATANT, S. (Fr.) The piece of wood that runs upon the edge of a lockside of a door or window. BATARDIER, 8. (Fr.) A nursery for BATCH, S. (1) A certain quantity; (2) v. To abate; to diminish. (4) pret. t. of bite. Bit. Thus surveying round Her dove-befeather'd prison, till at length (Calling her noble birth to mind, and strength Whereto her wing was born) her ragged beak Nips off her jangling jesses, strives to break (7) v. To go with rapidity. (10) s. A sheaf of hemp. Norf. (11) pret. t. Did beat. Spens. BATE-BREEDING, S. Causing strife. BATED, adj. A fish, when plump and full-roed, is well bated. Sussex. BATEL, s. (4.-N.) A little BATELLE, boat. BATELESS, adj. Not to be abated or subdued. BATE-MAKER, 8. A causer of strife. BATEMENT, 8. That part of wood which is cut off by a carpenter to make it fit for his purpose. tares, Yet, being battfulle, it bare perfect eares. Davies, Scourge of Folly, 1611. BATH, (1) adj. Both. North. (2) s. A sow. Heref. See Basse. (3) v. To dry any ointment or liquid into the skin. BATHER, (1) v. To nestle and rub in the dust, as birds in the sunshine; also to roll and settle downwards, spoken of smoke. Leic. (2) (A.-S.) gen. pl. of both. BATHING. See Beating. BATHING-TUB, s. A bath formerly administered to people affected with the venereal disease. BATIGE, 8. A pearl. BATILBABY, 8. An office in forests. BATILLAGE, S. (4.-N.) Boat hire. BAT-IN-WATER, S. Water mint. BATLER, BATLET, BATLING-STAFF, BATSTAFF, BATTING-STAFF, \ 8. The instrument with. which washers beat their coarse clothes. BATLETON, S. A batler. Shropsh. BATLING, S. A kind of fish. BATLINS, S. Loppings of trees, tied up into faggots. Suff. 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, 8. (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 culti vation. 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. 8. A beating 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. Northampt. BATTING-STOCK, stock. Kennett. BATTLE, (1) v. To dry in ointment or moisture upon the flesh by rubbing that part of the body while exposed to the fire. (2) adj. Fruitful, fertile, applied to land. (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, s. (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, S. Bad language. Skelton. BAUDY, adj. (A.-N.) Dirty. BAUDY-BASKET, s. A cant term for a profligate woman. BAUFFE, v. To belch. BAUFREY, 8. A beam. BAUF-WEEK, S. Among the pitmen 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, S. A badger. Prompt. P. BAURGHWAN, 8. A horse-collar. Yorksh. BAUSE, v. To kiss. See Base. BAUSON, adj. Swelled; pendant. Shropsh. BAUSIN, BAWZON, BAWSTONE, 8. A badger. BAWSONE, BAUSTON, BOUSON, Encrusted with BAUTERT, adj. 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, S. A kind of cake. BAVERE, S. Bavaria. BAVIAN, s. A baboon, or monkey; an occasional, but not a regular character in the old Morris dance. BAVIER, 8. (A.-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. |