Part 958

<hw>Bat"tle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Battled</er> (<?/); <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Battling</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[F. <ets>batailler</ets>, fr. <ets>bataille</ets>. See <er>Battle</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <def>To join in battle; to contend in fight; <as>as, to battle over theories</as>.</def>

<blockquote>To meet in arms, and <b>battle</b> in the plain. <i>Prior.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Battle</h1> <Xpage=125>

<hw>Bat"tle</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To assail in battle; to fight.</def>

<h1>Battle-ax Battle-axe</h1> <Xpage=125>

<hw><hw>Bat"tle-ax`</hw> <hw>Bat"tle-axe`</hw><hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Mil.)</fld> <def>A kind of broadax formerly used as an offensive weapon.</def>

<h1>Battled</h1> <Xpage=125>

<hw>Bat"tled</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>p. p.</tt> <def>Embattled.</def> <mark>[Poetic]</mark>

<i>Tennyson.</i>

<h1>Battledoor</h1> <Xpage=125>

<hw>Bat"tle*door`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>batyldour</ets>. A corrupted form of uncertain origin; cf. Sp. <ets>batallador</ets> a great combatant, he who has fought many battles, Pg. <ets>batalhador</ets>, Pr. <ets>batalhador</ets>, warrior, soldier, fr. L. <ets>battalia</ets>; or cf. Pr. <ets>batedor</ets> batlet, fr. <ets>batre</ets> to beat, fr. L. <ets>batuere</ets>. See <er>Battle</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <ety>[OE. <ets>battleder</ets>.]</ety> <def>A child's hornbook.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Halliwell.</i>

<h1>Battlement</h1> <Xpage=125>

<hw>Bat"tle*ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>batelment</ets>; cf. OF. <ets>bataillement</ets> combat, fr. <ets>batailler</ets>, also OF. bastillier, bateillier, to fortify. Cf. <er>Battle</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, <er>Bastile</er>, <er>Bastion</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Battlemented</h1> <Xpage=125>

<hw>Bat"tle*ment*ed</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having battlements.</def>

<blockquote>A <b>battlemented</b> portal. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Battologist</h1> <Xpage=125>

<hw>Bat*tol"o*gist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who battologizes.</def>

<h1>Battologize</h1> <Xpage=125>

<hw>Bat*tol"o*gize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To keep repeating needlessly; to iterate.</def>

<i> Sir T. Herbert.</i>

<h1>Battology</h1> <Xpage=125>

<hw>Bat*tol"o*gy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>battologie</ets>, fr. Gr. <ets><?/</ets>; <ets><?/</ets> a stammerer + <ets><?/</ets> speech.]</ety> <def>A needless repetition of words in speaking or writing.</def>

<i>Milton.</i>

<h1>Batton</h1> <Xpage=125>

<hw>Bat"ton</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Batten</er>, and <er>Baton</er>.</def>