battology (batoloji)

[ in the Crime an war, and copied by the English) the βαττολόγος, a stammerer, French armored wooden frigate La Gloire, launched in 1860. This was followed by the English Warrior, launched in (used only as a proper name), + λέγειν , speak: 1861. From this date the development of the war-ship, see -ology.] Idle talk or babbling; a needle largely influenced by the succe of the Monitor (which repetition of words in speaking. [With refer ence to Mat. vi. 7.] That heathenish battology of multiplying words. see), has been very rapid, resulting in a great diversity types (as regards arrangement and weight protective armor, character of armament, and adaptation of design to special ends), and accompanied by an equally rapid progre in the perfection of ordnance (see ordnance, gun), battont, n. An obsolete form of baton and bat Milton , Def. of Humb. Remonst. Same as batoon . armor-plate (which see), and explosives. The Warrior, an ten2. iron ve el, was 9,210 tons' displacement, 44-inch iron armor, carried 32 muzzle-loading guns, of which the battoont, n. largest were of 8-inch caliber and of small power, and had battoryt (bat'ō-ri), n. A factory or warehouse no torpedo-ejectors; the Lepanto, of the Italian navy, established abroad by the Hanse towns. launched in 1883, one of the largest war-ships yet con structed, is of 15,900 tons' displacement, has steel armor battoule-board (ba-töl'bord), n. A spring19 inches in maximum thickne , carries 16 guns, of which board. used for jumping-particularly, in cir 4 are are of of 17-inch inch calibrated caliber, and has 4 torpedo-ejectors. Mod which they are specially designed, as battle-ships, coast defense and harbor-defense ships, cruisers (which are cuses, for vaulting over horses, elephants, etc. It consists of a planks fastened one to a pole supported by two uprights, the other end resting upon a floor or other surface. cla ed as armored, protected, or unarmored, according battrilt (bat'ril), n. [E. dial. Cf. battler2, bat to their degree of defensive power), lookout boats, despatch-ve els, rams, torpedo-boats, torpedo-boat ler1.] Same as batler1. destroyers, etc. Of ve els of these cla es the United batts (bats), n. pl. Same as batting, 3. States po e ed at the beginning of 1898 four battle-ships, battue (ba-tū'), n. [F. (= Pr. batuda = It. with five proce of construction (two, the Kearsarge and Kentucky, were launched March 24, 1898); 19 battuta ), prop. fem. pp. of battre, beat: see coast-defense and harbor-defense ve els (including a number of obsolete monitors); one ram; one dynamite cruiser; four armored cruisers (one of which, the Maine, was blown up in the harbor of Havana, February 15, 1898); two protected cruisers; fourteen cruisers of the second cla ; seventeen gunboats and despatch-ve els; twenty-three torpedo craft; and various transports, etc. Of the battle-ships the Oregon, Ma achusetts, and Indiana, launched in 1893, are of 10,288 tons' displacement; have batel, batter1.] 1. A method of hunting in which the game is driven from cover by beaters toward a point where the sportsmen are in wait. He has not a word to say against battue shooting, though for his own part he greatly prefers shooting over a well trained dog to having the game put up in droves by a serried line of beaters. Westminster Rev. , CXXV. 300. batty1 (bat'i), a. [ bat2 +y1.] Of or resem- bling a bat; battish. Till o'er their brows death-counterfeiting sleep With leaden legs and batty wings doth creep. IMG:content-1760.png:[ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] q. v.] Primarily, a sort of scepter or staff of office, the attribute of Folly personified, car- ried by the jesters of kings and great lords in the middle ages, and down to the seventeenth cen- tury. It is generally represented as crowned with the head of a fool or zany, wearing a party-colored hood with a es' ears, and with a ring of little bells, like sleigh-bells. At the other end there was sometimes a ball or bladder inflated with air, with which to belabor people. Also spelled bawble . The kynges foole Sate by the fire upon a stoole, As he that with his bauble plaide. Gower, Conf. Amant., vii. Fools, who only wanted a party-col- oured coat, a cap, and a bawble , to pa for such amongst reasonable men. baubleryt, n. [Early mod. E. also bablerie , babelry ; bauble1 + -ry.] trifling; a trifling matter. baublingt (ba bling), a. [ IMG:content-1761.png:[blocks in formation] A baubling ve el was he captain of. Shak ., T. N., v. 1. bauch, baugh (bäch), a. [Sc., perhaps bāgr , uneasy, poor, hard up; cf. bagr , awkward, clumsy.] Weak; pithle ; shaky. [Scotch.] bauchee-seed (ba'che-sēd), n. Same as baw- chan - seed . bauchle1, bachlel (bäch'l), n. [Sc.; origin un- known. Cf. bauch .] 1. An old shoe worn down at the heel, or one with the counter turned down and worn as a slipper.-2. A slovenly, pithle , or shiftle person; a sham- bling good-for-nothing. [Scotch.] bauchly (bäch'li), adv . [Sc., baud1t, n. See bawd1 . baud2t, v. t. See bawd2 . baud3t, n. See bawd3 . bauch + -ly2.] [Scotch.] baud4 (bad), n. [Origin obscure. Cf. bawd3.] The fish otherwise called the rockling . [Local Eng. (Cornish).] baudet, a. [ME., bald , bold, lusty, E. bold . See bawdl.] Joyous; riotously gay. Rom. of the Rose . baudekin, baudkin (ba'de-kin, bâd'kin), n. [Obsolete, except in historical use; early mod. E. also irreg. bodkin ; baudkin , baudekin , etc., baudekin , baudequin (ML. baldaki- nus ), bald acc hi no , > also E. baldakin , bal- dachin : see baldachin .] A rich embroidered or brocaded silk fabric woven originally with a warp of gold thread, and properly called cloth of baudekin . It was used for garments, sacred vest- ments, altar-cloths, canopies, etc., and is first mentioned in English history in connection with the knighting of William of Valence in 1247 by Henry III. It was prob a- bly known on the continent before that date. Later the name was applied to any rich brocade, and even to shot silk. It is not found in use after the middle of the six- teenth century. Also called baldachin . There were no fewer than "Thirty albs of old cloth of bawdkyn ," that is, cloth of gold, at Peter borough. Quoted in Rock , Church of our Fathers, i. 431. bauble1 (ba'bl), n . and a . [Early mod. E. bable , babel , bable , babylle , babulle , babel , babel , baubel (with dim. baubelet , beubelet , early ME. beau be let ), a child's toy, plaything, trinket. Origin doubtful; cf. mod. F. babiole , a toy, gewgaw, It. babbola , a toy, appar. connected with It. babbeo , a fool, blockhead ( babbano , silly), = Pr. baban , a fool, babul us , a babbaudekynt, n. See baudekin . bler, fool. Cf. babble . The forms, if from the baudela baudelairet, n. See badelaire . same source, show imitative variation. Baublel baudkin, baudkin, n. See baudekin . in this sense was early confused with bauble2 , baudreyt (bâd'ri), n. A variant form of baldric . appar. of different origin.] I. n. 11. A child's baudrickt, n. See baldric . plaything or toy. - 2. A trifling piece of finery; that which is gay or showy without real value; 3. A trifle; a thing of little or no value; a childish or foolish matter or affair. II.t a. Trifling; insignificant; contemptible. The sea being smooth, How many shallow, bauble boats dare sail Upon her patient breast! Shak ., T. and C., i. 3. Also spelled bawble . baudrons (bâd'ronz), n. bathrons ; of unknown, perhaps Celtic, origin.] A name for the cat (like reynard for the fox, bruin for the bear, etc.). [Scotch.] Auld baudrons by the ingle sits, An' wi' her loof her face a washin'. bauld (bâld), a. A Scotch form of bold . baulite (ba'līt), n. [ Baula , a mountain in Iceland, + -ite2. The mountain prob. derives its name from Icel. baula , a cow, an imitative name; cf. mod. Icel. baula , low as a cow: see bawll .] A white transparent mineral, found in the matter ejected by the volcano of Krabla in Iceland. It is a variety of gla y feldspar or sanidine. Also called krablite . baulk, n. and v. See balk1 . baulmet, n. See balm . baultert, v. See balter . baumt, n. See balm . baunscheidtism (boun' shīt-izm), n. [From the inventor, Karl Baunscheidt, a German mechanician.) A form of acupuncture, in which about 25 needles, set in a metal disk and dipped in an irritant oil, are thrust into the skin by a spring. Its action seems to be accordant with that of ordinary counter-irritants. bauset, v . t. [Appar. a var. of ba 5 , q. v.] Το ki . Marston . [A doubtful sense.] bauson (ba'sn), n. and a. [Early mod. E. also bawson , bauzon , etc., and corruptly boson , bore- son, baucyn , bausen , a particular application of the adj. bauson , white-spotted, in ME. bausand , mod. bausond , etc.: see bausond . The adj. is rarely found in ME., but must have preceded the noun use. The badger has received other names in allu- sion to the white mark on its face: see bad- ger2.] I. n. An old name of the badger: some- times applied ludicrously or in contempt to a fat or pertinacious person. His mittens were of bawson's skin. Drayton, Dows a bell, st. 10 (1593). bausond (bâ'snd), a . [Early mod. E. also baw- sonde, bawsand , mod. dial. bawsont , bawsand, also (erroneously written as if a participle) bauson'd , ba en'd , baws'nt , etc.; bausand (also, as a noun, bauson , bawson , bausen , etc.), bausant , bau ant , bausent , bauzant , bauçant , balcent , bauchant , etc. (with appar. unorig. -t), also bauzan , bausen , bausain (ML. bausendus , bausennus ) = Pr. bausan = It. balzano , white- spotted; cf. mod. F. (from It.) balzan , a black or bay horse with white feet. Origin un- known; po ibly connected with the equiv. Celtic words mentioned as the source of E. ball3 , q. v.] Having white spots on a black or bay ground; having a white strip down the face, or a patch on the forehead: applied to animals. [Scotch.] His honest, sonsie, baws'nt face Aye gat him friends in ilka place. bauge (bōzh), n. [F.; of uncertain origin.] mark on the face, like a badger; bausond. 1. A kind of coarse drugget made in Burgundy, bauteroll, n. See boterol . France. 2. Mortar made of clay and straw.buy or of Jean and Gaspard Bauhin , eminent Swi botanists (died in 1613 and 1624 respectively), because the leaves generally consist of two lobes or parts, and were thus taken as sym- bolic of the two brothers.] A genus of plants, natural order Leguminosa . The species are usually twining plants, found in the woods of hot countries, often The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary bavardage The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary Replying only by monosyllables to the gay bavardage of the knight. Bulwer , Rienzi, II. 133. bavarettet (bav-a-ret'), n. Same as bavette . Bavarian (ba-va'ri-an), a . and n. [ Bavaria , NL. form of ML. Boiaria , the country of the Boii (G. Baiern ), whose name is also found in Bo hemia, the country of the Boiemi or Bohemi (G. Böhmen ).] I. a. Of or pertaining to Bavaria, a kingdom of southern Germany. - Bava rian bronze, a bronze ranging in color from a bright yellow to a copper-red. The yellow bronze contains about 824 per cent. of copper to 174 per cent. of tin; the red about 97 per cent. of copper to 3 per cent. of tin. II. n. A native or an inhabitant of Bavaria. 481