Bath"ing (&?;), n. Act of taking a bath or baths.
Bathing machine, a small room on wheels, to be driven into the water, for the convenience of bathers, who undress and dress therein.
Bath"mism (&?;), n. See Vital force.
Ba*thom"e*ter (&?;), n. [Gr. ba`qos depth + -meter.] An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line.
Bat"horse` (&?;), n. [F. bât packsaddle (cheval de bât packhorse) + E. horse. See Bastard.] A horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign.
Ba"thos (b"ths), n. [Gr. ba`qos depth, fr. baqy`s deep.] (Rhet.) A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.
||Ba*thyb"i*us (&?;), n. [NL., fr. Gr. baqy`s deep + bi`os life] (Zoöl.) 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.
{ Bath`y*met"ric (&?;), Bath`y*met"ric*al (&?;), } a. Pertaining to bathymetry; relating to the measurement of depths, especially of depths in the sea.
Ba*thym"e*try (&?;), n. [Gr. ba`qos depth + -metry.] The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in the sea.
Bat"ing (&?;), prep. [Strictly p. pr. of Bate to abate.] With the exception of; excepting.
We have little reason to think that they bring many ideas with them, bating some faint ideas of hunger and thirst.
Locke.
Ba*tiste" (&?;), n. [F. batiste, from the name of the alleged first maker, Baptiste of Cambrai. Littré.] Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton.
Bat"let (&?;), n. [Bat stick + - let.] A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff. Shak.
||Bat"man (bt"mn), n. [Turk. baman.] 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. Simmonds.
Bat"man (b"man or bt"man), n.; pl. Batmen (-men). [F. bât packsaddle + E. man. Cf. Bathorse.] A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load. Macaulay.
||Ba*toi"de*i (&?;), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ba`tos a kind of ray + -oid.] (Zoöl.) The division of fishes which includes the rays and skates.
Bat"on (bt"n, F. bä`tôN"; 277), n. [F. bâton. See Baston.] 1. A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances.
He held the baton of command.
Prescott.
2. (Her.) An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister.
Ba*toon" (&?;), n. See Baton, and Baston.
Bat" print`ing (&?;). (Ceramics) A mode of printing on glazed ware.
||Ba*tra"chi*a (&?;), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. batra`cheios belonging to a frog, fr. ba`trachos frog.] (Zoöl.) The order of amphibians which includes the frogs and toads; the Anura. Sometimes the word is used in a wider sense as equivalent to Amphibia.
Ba*tra"chi*an (&?;), a. (Zoöl.) Pertaining to the Batrachia. -- n. One of the Batrachia.
Bat"ra*choid (&?;), a. [Batrachia + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Froglike. Specifically: Of or pertaining to the Batrachidæ, a family of marine fishes, including the toadfish. Some have poisonous dorsal spines.
Bat`ra*cho*my*om"a*chy (&?;), n. [Gr. batrachomyomachi`a; ba`trachos frog + my^s mouse + ma`chh battle.] The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship.
Bat`ra*choph"a*gous (&?;), a. [Gr. ba`trachos frog + fagei^n to eat.] Feeding on frogs. Quart. Rev.
Bats"man (&?;), n.; pl. Batsmen (&?;). The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc.
{Bat's"-wing" (&?;) or Bat"wing }, a. Shaped like a bat's wing; as, a bat's-wing burner.
||Bat"ta (bt"t), n. [Prob. through Pg. for Canarese bhatta rice in the husk.] Extra pay; esp. an extra allowance to an English officer serving in India. Whitworth.
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||Bat"ta (bt/"t), n. [Hind. baa.] Rate of exchange; also, the discount on uncurrent coins. [India]
Bat"ta*ble (&?;), a. [See Batful.] Capable of cultivation; fertile; productive; fattening. [Obs.] Burton.
Bat"tail*ant (&?;), a. [F. bataillant, p. pr. See Battle, v. i. ] [Obs.] Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike. Spenser. -- n. A combatant. Shelton.
Bat"tail*ous (&?;), a. [OF. bataillos, fr. bataille. See Battle, n.] Arrayed for battle; fit or eager for battle; warlike. [Obs.] "In battailous aspect." Milton.
Bat*tal"ia (bt*tl"y; 106), n. [LL. battalia battle, a body of troops. See Battle, n.] 1. Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval force, for action.
A drawing up the armies in battalia.
Jer. Taylor.