English English Dictionary

Having the character of bathos.

of Bathe

Act of taking a bath or baths.

See Vital force.

An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line.

A horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign.

A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.

of Bath

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.

Alt. of Bathymetrical

Pertaining to bathymetry; relating to the measurement of depths, especially of depths in the sea.

The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in the sea.

With the exception of; excepting.

of Bate

Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton.

A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff.

A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load.

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.

of Batman

The division of fishes which includes the rays and skates.