English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Bathetic
(a.)
Having the character of bathos.
Bathing
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Bathe
Bathing
(n.)
Act of taking a bath or baths.
Bathmism
(n.)
See Vital force.
Bathometer
(n.)
An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking
soundings without a sounding line.
Bathorse
(n.)
A horse which carries an officer's baggage during a
campaign.
Bathos
(n.)
A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in
writing or speech; anticlimax.
Baths
(pl. )
of Bath
Bathybius
(n.)
A name given by Prof. Huxley to a gelatinous substance
found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He
supposed that it was free living protoplasm, covering a large part of
the ocean bed. It is now known that the substance is of chemical, not
of organic, origin.
Bathymetric
(a.)
Alt. of Bathymetrical
Bathymetrical
(a.)
Pertaining to bathymetry; relating to the
measurement of depths, especially of depths in the sea.
Bathymetry
(n.)
The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in
the sea.
Bating
(prep.)
With the exception of; excepting.
Bating
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Bate
Batiste
(n.)
Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied
also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton.
Batlet
(n.)
A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called
also batler, batling staff, batting staff.
Batman
(n.)
A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load.
Batman
(n.)
A weight used in the East, varying according to the
locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser
only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds.
Batmen
(pl. )
of Batman
Batoidei
(n. pl.)
The division of fishes which includes the rays and
skates.