Word Meanings - BATLET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff. Shak.

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• BATTLE
  Fertile. See Battel, a.
• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• BEATIFIC; BEATIFICAL
  Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful. "The beatific vision." South. -- Be`a*tif"ic*al*ly, adv.
• BATTON
  See BATON
• BATTOLOGY
  A needless repetition of words in speaking or writing. Milton.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• STAFFISH
  Stiff; harsh. Ascham.
• WASHHOUSE
  An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry.
• BATTUE
  The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game. The game itself. The wanton slaughter of game. Howitt.
• BATTERING-RAM
  1. An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places. Note: It was a large beam, with a head of iron, which was sometimes made to resemble the head of a ram. It was suspended by ropes t a beam supported by posts, and so
• BATTENING
  Furring done with small pieces nailed directly upon the wall.
• BEATIFICATION
  The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• WASHBOARD
  A broad, thin plank, fixed along the gunwale of boat to keep the sea from breaking inboard; also, a plank on the sill of a lower deck port, for the same purpose; -- called also wasteboard. Mar. Di (more info) 1. A fluted, or ribbed, board on which
• CALL
  callen, AS. ceallin; akin to Icel & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen 1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak. 2. To summon to the discharge of a particular
• SHORT-HANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• SHORTHEAD
  A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
• BATTER
  To flatten by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly. (more info) batuere to strike, beat; of unknown origin. Cf. Abate, Bate to 1. To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise,
• SWASHY
  Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• AWASH
  Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore, or of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
• BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
  See BURNER
• UNEMPIRICALLY
  Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
• UNIVOCALLY
  In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• PARABOLICALLY
  1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.
• STEREOGRAPHICALLY
  In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
• HEMEROCALLIS
  A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
• DRUMBEAT
  The sound of a beaten drum; drum music. Whose morning drumbeat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. D. Webster.
• ACRONYCALLY
  In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vise versâ.