batologist (batolojist)

[ baton (bat'on, ba-ton', or, as F., bä-tôn'), n. [This word appears in E. in various forms; first as bast on ( Pg. bastão = It. bastone, pronounced as F.: see bast on, battoon, batten2.] 1. A staff or club; a truncheon: carried either (a) for use as a weapon, as a policeman's baton; (b) as a mark of authority, as the baton of a field-marshal; or (c) as a warrant to do something, as the baton or staff carried in Great Britain by the engineer of a train on a single-track railway, as his authority to proceed.-2. In music: (a) The stick or wand used by the leader of a chorus or an orchestra in directing the performance. When I went home I made myself a baton, and went about the fields conducting an orchestra. Dickens. (b) A rest of two or more measures.-3. In her., same as bast on, 1 (c). Also spelled batt on . To wield a good baton, to conduct a musical perform. ance well. baton (bat'on), v. t. [ her ., same as cro potent (which see, under cro 1 ). batoont (ba-tön'), n. [An older form of baton , F.báton : see baton .] 1. A club or truncheon; a baton. Although his shoulders with batoon Be claw'd and cudgell'd to some tune. S. Butler, Hudibras, II. ii. 719. 2. A staff of office. See baton , 1.-3. In her ., same as bast on , 1 (c).-4. In arch ., same as bast on , 2. bat-printing (bat'printing), n. In ceram., a mode of printing patterns in color upon glazed ware. An engraving on copper is made with fine lines, slab of gelatin. This impre ion is transferred to the glazed ware, and over it is then dusted a metallic color, which clings to the oil, and is afterward melted and fixed by firing. See bat1 , 13. Batrachia (ba-tra'ki-ä), n. pl . [NL., prop. Batrachia, βατράχεια , neut. pl. (sc. ζῷα, animals) of βατράχειος , frog-like, βάρακος , from which an impre ion is taken in linseed-oil on a thin βράταχος, βρόταχος, βότραχος, βρύτιχος, βύρθακος, βάθρακος, etc., indicating an imitative origin.] 1. Formerly, as in Cuvier's system of cla ification, an order of reptiles, containing the frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, etc., and coexten sive with the modern cla Amphibia; the am phibians, or those vertebrates which breathe at first by gills, and then, generally, lose the gills and breathe by lungs.-2. Now, an order of Amphibia, synonymous with Anura2 (which see), containing the frogs and toads only, or those amphibians which lose the tail as well as the gills. The leading families are the Pipidæ, or Surinam toads; the Ranidæ, frogs; the Bufonidæ, ordinary toads; and the Hylidæ, tree-frogs. See cut under Anura. batster