bate a (bate a)

[Sp. Pg.] A wooden ve el in the form of a very flat hollow cone, about 20 inches in diameter and 2 or 3 inches deep, used by Mexican and Californian miners for washing auriferous sands and pulverized ores of various kinds. In the rubbish which was thrown out of the old mine, a comfortable subsistence is gained by washing in bate as . Mowry , Arizona and Sonora, p. 44. IMG:content-1743.png:[blocks in formation] b, b, d, batement-lights; a, a, angel-lights. ing-stone used in bating hides. When the hides have been properly worked with the bate stone, they are placed in a wash-wheel and worked for about twenty minutes. C. T. Davis, Leather, p. 586. verb represented by OHG. bajan, MHG. bæjen, bæn, G. bähen = LG. bäen, foment, = ME. ba wen, cleanse, prob. = L. fovere, foment: see fo ment.] 1. A washing of the body in, or an exposure of it to the action of, water or other fluid agent, for cleansing, refreshment, medical treatment, etc.: as, to take a bath; to administer a bath to a patient. - 2. A provision or arrangement for bathing: as, to prepare a bath; a hot or cold bath; a vapor- bath; an electric bath. There are many kinds of baths, all of which may be divided into four cla es: (a) according to the medium in which the body is immersed, as a water-, oil-, or mud - bath, a compre ed -air bath, a medicated or min eral bath, etc.; (b) according to manner of application or use, as a plunge-, shower-, vapor-, douche-, spray-, or swim ming - bath, etc.; (c) according to the parts bathed, as a foot-, sitz-, or eye - bath, etc.; ( d ) according to temperature, as a hot, tepid, warm, or cold bath. 3. A ve el for holding water in which to plunge, wash, or bathe the body.-4. More generally, an apartment or apparatus by means of which the body, or a part of it, may be bathed in any medium differing in nature or temperature from its natural medium.-5. An edifice IMG:content-1744.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1745.png:[graphic] IMG:content-1746.png:[graphic][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][merged small] bat-fish (bat'fish), n. [ bat2 + fish1 .] 1. A ancients, as the Baths of Car a call a at Rome. fish of the family Maltheidæ (which see). The best-known species is Malthe vespertilio. It has a heart Lateral view. Dorsal view. Bat-fish ( Malthe vespertilio). shaped trunk, produced anteriorly in a prolonged snout, a short coniform tail, a small inferior mouth, and a rostral tentacle under the snout. It inhabits the Atlantic along the southern coast of the United States. See therm a.-6. In science and the arts, any ve el containing a liquid for treating any object by immersion. (a) In photog., the ve el in which a collodion i zed plate is submitted to the action of a solution of nitrate of silver, or the tray in which an exposed dry plate is immersed in the developing solution. (b) In etching, the pan of acid into which the plate is plunged to be bitten. 7. An arrangement or preparation for immersing anything, as the silver-bath in photography. -8. In chem., an apparatus for modifying and regulating the heat in various chemical proce es, by interposing a quantity of sand, water, or other substance between the fire and the ve el intended to be heated. When a liquid bath of a higher temperature than 212° is required, saturated solutions are employed in which the boiling-point is higher than that of water.- Companions of the Bath, the third or lowest cla of the members of the order of the Bath.-Compre ed-air bath, a bath consisting in remaining for a longer or shorter time in a chamber filled with compre ed air. Such baths have been recommended as useful in certain diseases, in which an increased expansive force is required to cause the air to inflate the more delicate air-pa ages of the lungs.-Dung-bath, a bath used in calico-printing. See dunging. - Knights of the Bath, an order of knighthood supposed to have been instituted at the coronation of Henry IV. in 1399. It received this name from the fact that the candidates for the honor were put into a bath the preceding evening, to denote a purification or absolution from all former stain, and that they were now to begin a new life. The present order of the Bath, however, was instituted by George I. in 1725, as a military order, consisting, exclusive of the sovereign, of a grand master and thirty-six companions. In 1815 the order was greatly extended, and in 1847 it was opened to It viz.: IMG:content-1747.png:[graphic] 2. A name of the flying-fish or flying-robin, Cephalacanthus volitans . bat-fowler (bat'fouler), n. [ battfowl ere, battfowlen : battfowlen : see bat - fowling .] bat - fowling .] 1. One who practises bat-fowling.-2t. A swindler. [Slang.] ng.1 bateau, batteau (ba-tō'), n.; pl. bateaux, bat-bat-fowling (bat'fouling), n. [ teaux (-tōz'). [F. bateau, It. bat to ), a boat, prob.