batlett (batlet)

[ batmanı (bat' or ba'man), n.; pl. batmen (-men). [Formerly also bateman; bat ), a pack-saddle, manman person al lowed by the government to every company of a regiment on foreign service. His duty is to take charge of the cooking utensils, etc., of the company. There is in the charge of the batman a bathorse for each company to convey the cooking utensils from place to place. Imp. Dict. [Great Britain.] batman (bat'man), n. [Ru . batmanŭ , Turk. batman , batman , a weight, the same as 475 the Pers. man: see maund2.] A Turkish weight varying in amount in different localities. The batman formerly legal throughout the empire, now used in Constantinople and Smyrna, is 17 pounds avoirdupois. The great batman of Constantinople is 22.5 pounds; the little batman is 5.6 pounds. The batman of Tabriz is 6.4 pounds; the batman of Shiraz is 12.7 pounds; the batman rei of Teheran is 28.3 pounds. bat-money, baw-money (bat'- or ba'-, ba'muni), n. [ a batman. [ Batis (a genus batoid (bat'oid), a. and n. of fishes) + -oid.] I. a. Of or pertaining to the Batoidei . II. n. One of the Batoidei . Batoidei (ba-toi'de-1), n . pl . [NL., Batis (a genus of fishes) + -oideus , pl. -oidei.] In Gün- ther's system of cla ification, a suborder of plagiostomatous fishes having ventral gill- openings: synonymous with Raiæ . Batolites (bat-o-li'tēz), n. [NL., báton , a staff (see baton ), + Gr. λίθος , a stone.] A genus of straight cylindrical bivalve fo il shells, al- lied to the hippurites. Some are of great length, and form ma es of rock in the high Alps. Also written Batolithes and Batolithus .