English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Battledoor
(n.)
A child's hornbook.
Battlement
(n.)
One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient
fortifications.
Battlement
(n.)
pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids
and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied
on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches.
Battlemented
(a.)
Having battlements.
Battler
(n.)
A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from
the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for,
answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge.
Battling
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Battle
Battologist
(n.)
One who battologizes.
Battologize
(v. t.)
To keep repeating needlessly; to iterate.
Battology
(n.)
A needless repetition of words in speaking or writing.
Batton
(n.)
See Batten, and Baton.
Battue
(v. t.)
The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game.
Battue
(v. t.)
The game itself.
Battue
(v. t.)
The wanton slaughter of game.
Batture
(n.)
An elevated river bed or sea bed.
Battuta
(n.)
The measuring of time by beating.
Batty
(a.)
Belonging to, or resembling, a bat.
Batule
(n.)
A springboard in a circus or gymnasium; -- called also
batule board.
Batwing
(a.)
Shaped like a bat's wing; as, a bat's-wing burner.
Batz
(n.)
A small copper coin, with a mixture of silver, formerly
current in some parts of Germany and Switzerland. It was worth about
four cents.
Batzen
(pl. )
of Batz