Part 952

<h1>Bathorse</h1> <Xpage=124>

<hw>Bat"horse`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>b<?/t</ets> packsaddle (cheval de <ets>b<?/t</ets> packhorse) + E. <ets>horse</ets>. See <er>Bastard</er>.]</ety> <def>A horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign.</def>

<h1>Bathos</h1> <Xpage=124>

<hw>Ba"thos</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <ets><?/</ets> depth, fr. <ets><?/</ets> deep.]</ety> <fld>(Rhet.)</fld> <def>A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.</def>

<h1>Bathybius</h1> <Xpage=124>

<hw>Ba*thyb"i*us</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <ets><?/</ets> deep + <ets><?/</ets> life]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Bathymetric, Bathymetrical</h1> <Xpage=124>

<hw><hw>Bath`y*met"ric</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Bath`y*met"ric*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to bathymetry; relating to the measurement of depths, especially of depths in the sea.</def>

<h1>Bathymetry</h1> <Xpage=124>

<hw>Ba*thym"e*try</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <ets><?/</ets> depth + <ets>-metry</ets>.]</ety> <def>The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in the sea.</def>

<h1>Bating</h1> <Xpage=124>

<hw>Bat"ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>prep.</tt> <ety>[Strictly p. pr. of <er>Bat<?/</er> to abate.]</ety> <def>With the exception of; excepting.</def>

<blockquote>We have little reason to think that they bring many ideas with them, <b>bating</b> some faint ideas of hunger and thirst. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Batiste</h1> <Xpage=124>

<hw>Ba*tiste"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>batiste</ets>, from the name of the alleged first maker, <ets>Baptiste</ets> of Cambrai. <ets>Littr\'82</ets>.]</ety> <def>Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton.</def>

<h1>Batlet</h1> <Xpage=124>

<hw>Bat"let</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Bat</ets> stick + <ets>-let</ets>.]</ety> <def>A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also <altname>batler</altname>, <altname>batling staff</altname>, <altname>batting staff</altname>.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Batman</h1> <Xpage=124>

<hw>Bat"man</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Turk. <ets>batman</ets>.]</ety> <def>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.</def>

<i> Simmonds.</i>

<h1>Batman</h1> <Xpage=124>

<hw>Bat"man</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Batmen</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[F. <ets>b<?/t</ets> packsaddle + E. <ets>man</ets>. Cf. <er>Bathorse</er>.]</ety> <def>A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load.</def>

<i>Macaulay.</i>

<h1>Batoidei</h1> <Xpage=124>

<hw>Ba*toi"de*i</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <ets><?/</ets> a kind of ray + <ets>-oid</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The division of fishes which includes the rays and skates.</def>

<h1>Baton</h1> <Xpage=124>

<hw>Bat"on</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>b<?/ton</ets>. See <er>Baston</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; <as>as, the <ex>baton</ex> of a field marshal; the <ex>baton</ex> of a conductor in musical performances.</as></def>