Battalion

bat-al'yun, n. in the infantry of a modern army, the tactical unit or unit ol romm mil, being a body ol soldiers convenient for acting together numbering from 500 1000) sevei a companies form a battalion, and one or inoie b it talions a regiment a body of men diawn up in battle-array. [Fr. from loot of Battle — Batten, bat'n, v i to grow fat to live in luxury v.t fatten to fci tih*c or enrich. [Ice b.itnu, to giow better See Better.] [Baton.