Bat"tle*ment (-ment), n. [OE. batelment; cf. OF. bataillement combat, fr. batailler, also OF. bastillier, bateillier, to fortify. Cf. Battle, n., Bastile, Bastion.] (Arch.) (a) One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications. (b) 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.
Bat"tle*ment*ed (-mnt*d), a. Having battlements.
A battlemented portal.
Sir W. Scott.
Bat*tol"o*gist (&?;), n. One who battologizes.
Bat*tol"o*gize (bt*tl"l*jz), v. t. To keep repeating needlessly; to iterate. Sir T. Herbert.
Bat*tol"o*gy (-j), n. [F. battologie, fr. Gr. battologi`a; ba`ttos; a stammerer + lo`gos; speech.] A needless repetition of words in speaking or writing. Milton.
Bat"ton (&?;), n. See Batten, and Baton.
||Bat"tue` (&?;), n. [F. battue, fr. battre to beat. See Batter, v. t., and cf. Battuta.] (Hunting) (a) The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game. (b) The game itself. (c) The wanton slaughter of game. Howitt.
||Bat`ture" (&?;), n. [F., fr. battre to beat.] An elevated river bed or sea bed.
||Bat*tu"ta (&?;), n. [It. battuta, fr. battere to beat.] (Mus.) The measuring of time by beating.
Bat"ty (bt"t), a. Belonging to, or resembling, a bat. "Batty wings." Shak.
Bat"ule (bt"l or b*tl"), n. A springboard in a circus or gymnasium; -- called also batule board.
||Batz (bäts), n.; pl. Batzen (&?;). [Ger. batz, batze, batzen, a coin bearing the image of a bear, Ger. bätz, betz, bear.] A small copper coin, with a mixture of silver, formerly current in some parts of Germany and Switzerland. It was worth about four cents.
Bau*bee" (&?;), n. Same as Bawbee.
Bau"ble (b"b'l), n. [Cf. OF. baubel a child's plaything, F. babiole, It. babbola, LL. baubellum gem, jewel, L. babulus, a baburrus, foolish.] 1. A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything.
The ineffective bauble of an Indian pagod.
Sheridan.
2. The fool's club. [Obs.] "A fool's bauble was a short stick with a head ornamented with an ass's ears fantastically carved upon it." Nares.