a spherical deep diving apparatus (lowered by a cable) for underwater exploration; it is constructed with a strong steel shell to withstand high pressures at the ocean bottom.
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a natural family coextensive with genus Batis; the saltworts.
A dyed fabric with designs drawn on by applying a removable wax where the dye is not wanted.
With the exception of; excepting.
A small genus of plants constituting the family Batidaceae: low straggling dioecious shrubs.
Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton.
A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff.
A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load.
The division of fishes which includes the rays and skates.
A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances.
See Baton, and Baston.
The order of amphibians which includes the frogs and toads; the Anura. Sometimes the word is used in a wider sense as equivalent to Amphibia.
Pertaining to the Batrachia. One of the Batrachia.
Froglike. Specifically: Of or pertaining to the Batrachid/, a family of marine fishes, including the toadfish. Some have poisonous dorsal spines.
The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship.
Feeding on frogs.
Crazy; insane; loony; demented; batty.
The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc.; in baseball, the batsman is usually called the batter.
Rate of exchange; also, the discount on uncurrent coins.
Capable of cultivation; fertile; productive; fattening.
Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike. A combatant.
Arrayed for battle; fit or eager for battle; warlike.
Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval force, for action.
To form into battalions.
Fertile; fruitful; productive.
The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.
Furring done with small pieces nailed directly upon the wall.
The one who wields the bat in baseball; the one whose turn it is at bat; formerly called the batsman.
In deplorable condition; as, the battered old Ford station wagon.
One who, or that which, batters.
the act or process of subjecting to strong repeated blows.
An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places.
The act of battering or beating.
The act of one who bats; the management of a bat in playing games of ball.
To assail in battle; to fight.
A kind of broadax formerly used as an offensive weapon.
Experienced in combat, and therefore more effective at fighting; -- used mostly of infantry troops; as, battle-hardened veterans.
Embattled.
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.
same as battledoor.
a region where a battle is fought.
the line along which opposing armies face each other.
a region where a battle is fought; same as battlefield.
One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications. 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.
Having battlements.
A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge.
One who battologizes.
To keep repeating needlessly; to iterate.
A needless repetition of words in speaking or writing.
See Batten, and Baton.
The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game. The game itself. The wanton slaughter of game.
An elevated river bed or sea bed.
The measuring of time by beating.
Belonging to, or resembling, a bat.
A springboard in a circus or gymnasium; -- called also batule board.
Shaped like a bat's wing; as, a bat's-wing burner.
A small copper coin, with a mixture of silver, formerly current in some parts of Germany and Switzerland. It was worth about four cents.
Same as Bawbee.
A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything.
See Bawbling.
A unit of transmission speed for information conveyed over a digital communications channel, usually taken as equal to the number of bits of information transmitted per second. The speed in bauds indicates the number of signalling events per second; however, since it is necessary in most cases to transmit control information along with the data, the data signalling rate may be smaller than the baud rate.
The richest kind of stuff used in garments in the Middle Ages, the web being gold, and the woof silk, with embroidery; -- made originally at Baghdad.
A belt. See Baldric.
See Balk.
Designating or conforming to either of the scales used by the French chemist Antoine Baum/ in the graduation of his hydrometers; of or relating to Baum/'s scales or hydrometers. There are two Baum/ hydrometers. One, which is used with liquids heavier than water, sinks to 0/ in pure water, and to 15/ in a 15 per cent salt solution; the other, for liquids lighter than water, sinks to 0/ in a 10 per cent salt solution and to 10/ in pure water. In both cases the graduation, based on the distance between these fundamental points, is continued along the stem as far as desired.
A form of acupuncture, followed by the rubbing of the part with a stimulating fluid.
Of or pertaining to bauxite.
Much talking; prattle; chatter.
A state in southern Germany.
Of or pertaining to Bavaria. A native or an inhabitant of Bavaria.
A kind of cloak or surtout.
A baboon.
A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood.
A halfpenny.
A trinket. See Bauble.
Insignificant; contemptible.
A fine fellow; -- a term of endearment.
To procure women for lewd purposes.
Obscenely; lewdly.
Obscenity; lewdness.
A belt. See Baldric.
The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust.
Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes.
A house of prostitution; a house of ill fame; a brothel.
Same as Bathorse.
A loud, prolonged cry; an outcry.
One who bawls.
An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure.
A kind of hawk.
A badger.
A baker; originally, a female baker.
To dam, as water; -- with up or back.
The second tine of a stag's horn. See under Antler.
The East Indian weaver bird (Ploceus Philippinus).
A female dancer in the East Indies.
A violent thunder squall occurring on the south coast of Cuba, esp. near Bayamo. The gusts, called bayamo winds, are modified foehn winds.
Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse.
Blind; stupid.
A large, edible, siluroid fish of the Nile, of two species (Bagrina bayad and Bagrina docmac).
The fruit of the bay tree or Laurus nobilis. A tree of the West Indies related to the myrtle (Pimenta acris). The fruit of Myrica cerifera (wax myrtle); the shrub itself; -- called also candleberry tree.
A bolt with a barbed shank.
Having a bay or bays.
In the United States navy, a sick-bay nurse; -- now officially designated as hospital apprentice.
To stab with a bayonet.
An inlet from the Gulf of Mexico, from a lake, or from a large river, sometimes sluggish, sometimes without perceptible movement except from tide and wind.
See Baize.
In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of shops where goods are exposed for sale.
An unidentified substance mentioned in the Bible (Gen. ii. 12, and Num. xi. 7), variously taken to be a gum, a precious stone, or pearls, or perhaps a kind of amber found in Arabia.
The order of Annulata which includes the leeches. See Hirudinea.
A cupping glass to which are attached a scarificator and an exhausting syringe.
An order of Nemertina, including the large leechlike worms (Malacobdella) often parasitic in clams.
To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have existence.
The whole; all that is to be.
To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship.
Bordered by a beach.
an area in hostile territory that has been occupied and is held to allow aditional troops and supplies to enter.
having an extensive gently sloping area of sand or gravel; -- of a shore or shoreline. Opposite of cliffy.
clothing to be worn at a beach.
Having a beach or beaches; formed by a beach or beaches; shingly.
To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine.
Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also, beacons, collectively.
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