Part 947

<i>Kirwan.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A part of a brick with one whole end.</def>

<cs><col>Bat bolt</col> <fld>(Machinery)</fld>, <cd>a bolt barbed or jagged at its butt or tang to make it hold the more firmly.</cd></cs>

<i>Knight.</i>

<h1>Bat</h1> <Xpage=124>

<hw>Bat</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Batted</er> (<?/); <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Batting</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.</def>

<i>Holland.</i>

<h1>Bat</h1> <Xpage=124>

<hw>Bat</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To use a bat, as in a game of baseball.</def>

<h1>Bat</h1> <Xpage=124>

<hw>Bat</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Corrupt. from OE. <ets>back</ets>, <ets>backe</ets>, <ets>balke</ets>; cf. Dan. aften-bakke]/> (<ets>aften evening</ets>), Sw. natt-backa]/> (<ets>natt</ets> night), Icel. le<?/r-blaka]/> (<ets>le<?/r</ets> leather), Icel. <ets>blaka</ets> to flutter.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See <er>Cheiroptera</er> and <er>Vampire</er>.</def>

<cs><col>Bat tick</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a wingless, dipterous insect of the genus <spn>Nycteribia</spn>, parasitic on bats.</cd></cs>

<h1>Batable</h1> <Xpage=124>

<hw>Bat"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Abbrev. from <ets>debatable</ets>.]</ety> <def>Disputable.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<note>&hand; The border land between England and Scotland, being formerly a subject of contention, was called <i>batable</i> or <i>debatable</i> ground.</note>

<h1>Batailled</h1> <Xpage=124>

<hw>Bat"ailled</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Embattled.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Batardeau</h1> <Xpage=124>

<hw>Ba`tar*deau"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A cofferdam.</def>

<i>Brande & C.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Mil.)</fld> <def>A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the wall.</def>

<h1>Batatas, Batata</h1> <Xpage=124>

<hw><hw>Ba*ta"tas</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Ba*ta"ta</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <def>An aboriginal American name for the sweet potato (<spn>Ipom\'91a batatas</spn>).</def>

<h1>Batavian</h1> <Xpage=124>

<hw>Ba*ta"vi*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to <sd>(a)</sd> the Batavi, an ancient Germanic tribe; or to <sd>(b)</sd> <?/atavia or Holland; <as>as, a <ex>Batavian</ex> legion</as>.</def>

<cs><col>Batavian Republic</col>, <cd>the name given to Holland by the French after its conquest in 1795.</cd></cs>