Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 18
Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence. -- Gwilt.
Bath (n.) (Chem.) A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through which heat is applied to a body.
Bath (n.) (Photog.) A solution in which plates or prints are immersed; also, the receptacle holding the solution.
Note: Bath is used adjectively or in combination, in an obvious sense of or for baths or bathing; as, bathroom, bath tub, bath keeper.
Douche bath. See Douche.
Order of the Bath, A high order of British knighthood, composed of three classes, viz., knights grand cross, knights commanders, and knights companions, abbreviated thus: G. C. B., K. C. B., K. B.
Russian bath, A kind of vapor bath which consists in a prolonged exposure of the body to the influence of the steam of water, followed by washings and shampooings.
Turkish bath, A kind of bath in which a profuse perspiration is produced by hot air, after which the body is washed and shampooed.
Compare: Profuse
Profuse (a.) 毫不吝惜的，十分慷慨的 [F] [（+of/ in）]； 極其豐富的；充沛的；過多的 (Especially of something offered or discharged) Very plentiful; abundant.
‘I offered my profuse apologies.’
Profuse (a.) [Archaic] (Of a person) Extravagant.
‘They are profuse in hospitality.’
Compare: Extravagant
Extravagant (a.) 奢侈的；浪費的；放肆的；過度的，過分的 Lacking restraint in spending money or using resources.
‘It was rather extravagant to buy both.’
Extravagant (a.) Resulting from or showing a lack of restraint in spending money or resources.
‘Extravagant gifts like computer games.’
Extravagant (a.) Exceeding what is reasonable or appropriate; excessive or elaborate.
‘Extravagant claims about the merchandise.’
Compare: Shampoo
Shampoo (n.) [Mass noun] 洗髮；洗頭 [C]；洗髮精 [U] [C] A liquid preparation for washing the hair.
‘He smelt clean, of soap and shampoo.’
[Count noun ]‘An anti-dandruff shampoo.’
Shampoo (n.) [Mass noun] A liquid preparation for cleaning a carpet, soft furnishings, or a car.
‘The foyer smelled of dusty plants and carpet shampoo.’
Shampoo (n.) [Count noun] An act of washing or cleaning something, especially the hair, with shampoo.
‘A shampoo and set.’
Shampoo (v.) [With object] (Shampoos, shampooing, shampooed) 洗（頭髮）；洗（地毯等） Wash or clean (something, especially the hair) with shampoo.
‘Dolly was sitting in the bath shampooing her hair.’
Shampoo (v.) [With object] (Shampoo something in/ out) Wash something in or out of the hair using shampoo.
‘Apply oil to wet hair, otherwise it will be difficult to shampoo it out.’
Bath house,
A house used for the purpose of bathing; -- also a small house, near a bathing
place, where a bather undresses and dresses.
Bath (n.)
A city in the west of England, resorted to for its
Bath brick, A preparation of calcareous earth, in the form of a brick, used for cleaning knives, polished metal, etc
Bath chair, A kind of chair on wheels, as used by invalids at Bath. "People walked out, or drove out, or were pushed out in their Bath chairs." -- Dickens.
Bath metal, An alloy consisting of four and a half ounces of zinc and one pound of copper.
Bath note, A folded writing paper, 8 1/2 by 14 inches.
Bath stone, A species of limestone (o["o]lite) found near Bath, used for building.
Bath (n.) A vessel containing liquid in which something is immersed (as to process it or to maintain it at a constant temperature or to lubricate it); "she soaked the etching in an acid bath".
Bath (n.) You soak and wash your body in a bathtub; "he has a good bath every morning."
Bath (n.) A relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body [syn: bathtub, bathing tub, bath, tub].
Bath (n.) An ancient Hebrew liquid measure equal to about 10 gallons.
Bath(n.) A town in southwestern England on the River Avon; famous for its hot springs and Roman remains.
Bath (n.) A room (as in a residence) containing a bathtub or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet [syn: bathroom, bath].
Bath (v.) Clean one's body by immersion into water; "The child should bathe every day" [syn: bathe, bath].
Bath, () A Hebrew liquid measure, the tenth part of an homer (1 Kings 7:26, 38; Ezek. 45:10, 14). It contained 8 gallons 3 quarts of our measure. "Ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath" (Isa. 5:10) denotes great unproductiveness.
Bath, (n.) A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.
The man who taketh a steam bath He loseth all the skin he hath, And, for he's boiled a brilliant red, Thinketh to cleanliness he's wed, Forgetting that his lungs he's soiling With dirty vapors of the boiling. Richard Gwow
Bath -- U.S. County in Kentucky
Population (2000): 11085
Housing Units (2000): 4994
Land area (2000): 279.458433 sq. miles (723.793989 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 4.484921 sq. miles (11.615891 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 283.943354 sq. miles (735.409880 sq. km)
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 38.147434 N, 83.758080 W
Headwords:
Bath
Bath, KY
Bath County
Bath County, KY
Bath -- U.S. County in Virginia
Population (2000): 5048
Housing Units (2000): 2896
Land area (2000): 531.862887 sq. miles (1377.518496 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.701166 sq. miles (6.995988 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 534.564053 sq. miles (1384.514484 sq. km)
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 38.045393 N, 79.745878 W
Headwords:
Bath
Bath, VA
Bath County
Bath County, VA
Bath, NY -- U.S. village in New York
Population (2000): 5641
Housing Units (2000): 2826
Land area (2000): 2.878165 sq. miles (7.454414 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.878165 sq. miles (7.454414 sq. km)
FIPS code: 04759
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 42.337650 N, 77.316876 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Bath, NY
Bath
Bath, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
Population (2000): 275
Housing Units (2000): 150
Land area (2000): 0.362324 sq. miles (0.938416 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.689536 sq. miles (1.785890 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.051860 sq. miles (2.724306 sq. km)
FIPS code: 03840
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.474437 N, 76.808863 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 27808
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Bath, NC
Bath
Bath, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 310
Housing Units (2000): 153
Land area (2000): 0.365195 sq. miles (0.945850 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000404 sq. miles (0.001046 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.365599 sq. miles (0.946896 sq. km)
FIPS code: 04156
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 40.191336 N, 90.140819 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Bath, IL
Bath
Bath, PA -- U.S. borough in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 2678
Housing Units (2000): 1126
Land area (2000): 0.904562 sq. miles (2.342805 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000851 sq. miles (0.002205 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.905413 sq. miles (2.345010 sq. km)
FIPS code: 04432
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.726556 N, 75.390338 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 18014
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Bath, PA
Bath
Bath, ME -- U.S. city in Maine
Population (2000): 9266
Housing Units (2000): 4383Land area (2000): 9.112698 sq. miles (23.601779 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 4.124289 sq. miles (10.681859 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 13.236987 sq. miles (34.283638 sq. km)
FIPS code: 03355
Located within: Maine (ME), FIPS 23
Location: 43.916293 N, 69.822565 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 04530
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Bath, ME
Bath
Bath, WV -- U.S. town in West Virginia
Population (2000): 663
Housing Units (2000): 379
Land area (2000): 0.245007 sq. miles (0.634566 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.245007 sq. miles (0.634566 sq. km)
FIPS code: 04876
Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54
Location: 39.625562 N, 78.226862 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Bath, WV
Bath
Bathed (imp. & p. p.) of Bathe.
Bathing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bathe.
Bathe (v. i.) 【美】洗澡；日光浴；【英】（在河，海中）游泳；沉浸 To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths. "They bathe in summer." -- Waller.
Bathe (v. i.) To immerse or cover one's self, as in a bath. "To bathe in fiery floods." -- Shak. "Bathe in the dimples of her cheek." -- Lloyd.
Bathe (v. i.) To bask in the sun. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Bathe (n.) 游泳； <英>（在河，海中的）游泳；戲水 The immersion of the body in water; as to take one's usual bathe. -- Edin. Rev.
Compare: Immersion
Immersion (n.) [Mass noun] 沉浸，浸沒；【宗】浸禮 The action of immersing someone or something in a liquid.
‘His back was still raw from immersion in the icy Atlantic sea.’
Immersion (n.) [Mass noun] Baptism by immersing a person bodily (but not necessarily completely) in water.
Immersion (n.) [Mass noun] Deep mental involvement in something.
‘A week's immersion in the culinary heritage of Puglia.’
Immersion (n.) [Mass noun] A method of teaching a foreign language by the exclusive use of that language.
‘As a teacher she advocates learning by immersion.’
[As modifier ]‘An immersion school.’
Immersion (n.) [Mass noun] [Astronomy ] The disappearance of a celestial body in the shadow of or behind another.
‘Such terminology may also be used for eclipses and occultations, along with their synonyms immersion and emersion.’
‘You may be able to watch Jupiter disappear - an event known as immersion - without optical aid, though binoculars help.’
Bathe (v. t.) 把……浸入，浸洗；給……洗澡；弄濕；上藥水 To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath.
Bathe (v. t.) To lave; to wet.
Bathe (v. t.) To moisten or suffuse with a liquid.
Bathe (v. t.) To apply water or some liquid medicament to; as, to bathe the eye with warm water or with sea water; to bathe one's forehead with camphor.
Bathe (v. t.) To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed.
Bather (n.) One who bathes.
Bathetic (a.) 平凡的，陳腐的；【語】頓降（Bathos）的 Having the character of bathos. [R.]
Bathetic (a.) Effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: {bathetic}, {drippy}, {hokey}, {maudlin}, {mawkish}, {kitschy}, {mushy}, {schmaltzy}, {schmalzy}, {sentimental}, {soppy}, {soupy}, {slushy}].
Compare: Bathos
Bathos (n.) [Mass noun]【修辭】突降法；陳腐；矯揉造作 (Especially in a literary work) An effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous.
‘His epic poem has passages of almost embarrassing bathos.’
‘A nice balance between the colloquial, which might have led to bathos, and an over-polished style.’
Bathing (n.) Act of taking a bath or baths.
Bathing machine, A small room on wheels, to be driven into the water, for the convenience of bathers, who undress and dress therein.
Bathing (n.) Immersing the body in water or sunshine.
Bathing (n.) The act of washing yourself (or another person) [syn: washup, bathing].
Bathmism (n.) See Vital force.
Bathmism (n.) (Biology obsolete) A hypothetical growth-force, once thought to animate living beings.
Bathometer (n.) An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line.
Bathometer (n.) An instrument that measures the depth of water [syn: bathymeter, bathometer].
Bathorse (n.) A horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign.
Bathos (n.) (Rhet.) A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.
Bathos (n.) Triteness or triviality of style.
Bathos (n.) Insincere pathos [syn: mawkishness, bathos].
Bathos (n.) A change from a serious subject to a disappointing one [syn: anticlimax, bathos].
Bathybius (n.) (Zool.) A name given by Prof. Huxley to a gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He supposed that it was free living protoplasm, covering a large part of the ocean bed. It is now known that the substance is of chemical, not of organic, origin.
Bathymetric (a.) Alt. of Bathymetrical.
Bathymetrical (a.) Pertaining to bathymetry; relating to the measurement of depths, especially of depths in the sea. -- Bath`y*met"ric*al*ly, (adv.)
Bathymetry (n.) The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in the sea. Bathyscaph.
Bathymetry (n.) Measuring the depths of the oceans [syn: bathymetry, plumbing].
Bating (prep.) With the exception of; excepting.
Batiste (n.) Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton.
Batlet (n.) A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff.
Batman (n.) A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds.
Batmen (n. pl. ) of Batman.
Batman (n.) A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load.
Batoidei (n. pl.) The division of fishes which includes the rays and skates.
Baton (n.) 官杖，權杖；警棒；軍樂隊用指揮杖；【喻】指揮棒；短棒 A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances.
He held the baton of command. -- Prescott.
Compare: Truncheon
Truncheon (n.) [C] [British] （粗短的）棍子；【主英】警棍；官杖；權杖；司令杖 A short, thick stick carried as a weapon by a police officer.
Truncheon (n.) A staff or baton acting as a symbol of authority, especially that used by the Earl Marshal.
‘The truncheon, or baton, is a military commander's sign of office.’
‘The truncheons behind the shield bearing the duke's Arms refer to his office as Earl Marshal.’
Compare: Earl Marshal
Earl Marshal (n.) 典禮官 (In the UK) The officer presiding over the College of Arms, with ceremonial duties on various royal occasions.
Truncheon (n.) The club carried by a police officer; billy.
Truncheon (n.) A staff representing an office or authority; baton.
Truncheon (n.) The shattered shaft of a spear.
Truncheon (n.) (Obsolete) Cudgel; bludgeon.
Truncheon (v. t.) (Archaic) 【古】用棍子打，用警棍打 To beat with a club.
Baton (n.) (Her.) An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister.
Baton (n.) A thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir [syn: baton, wand].
Baton (n.) A short stout club used primarily by policemen [syn: truncheon, nightstick, baton, billy, billystick, billy club].
Baton (n.) A short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an office or an authority.
Baton (n.) A hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major or drum majorette.
Baton (n.) A hollow cylinder passed from runner to runner in a relay Race.
Batoon (n.) See Baton, and Baston.
Bat printing (n.) (Ceramics) 棒印法（陶瓷裝飾方法） A mode of printing on glazed ware.
Bat printing (n.) A mode of printing on glazed ware by transferring the impression from the engraving to the ware on a thin slab of gelatin with the impression being taken in varnish and dusted with color after transfer
Compare: Ceramics
Ceramics (n.) [ U ] 製陶藝術；陶器製造 The art of making object by shaping pieces of clay and then baking them until they are hard.
Ceramics (n. pl.) 陶瓷製品 The objects produced by shaping and baking clay, especially when considered as art.
Batrachia (n. pl.) (Zool.) 【動】（複）兩棲動物 The order of amphibians which includes the frogs and toads; the Anura. Sometimes the word is used in a wider sense as equivalent to Amphibia.
Batrachia (n.) Frogs, toads, tree toads [syn: Salientia, order Salientia, Anura, order Anura, Batrachia, order Batrachia].
Batrachian (a.) (Zool.) 無尾兩棲類的；蛙類的 Pertaining to the Batrachia. -- n. One of the Batrachia.
Batrachian (a.) Relating to frogs and toads [syn: anuran, batrachian, salientian].
Batrachian (n.) 無尾兩棲動物 Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species [syn: frog, toad, toad frog, anuran, batrachian, salientian].
Batrachoid (a.) Froglike. Specifically: Of or pertaining to the Batrachidae, a family of marine fishes, including the toadfish. Some have poisonous dorsal spines.
Batrachomyomachy (n.) The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship.
Batrachophagous (a.) Feeding on frogs.
Batsmen (n. pl. ) of Batsman.
Batsman (n.) The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc.
Bat's-wing (a.) Alt. of Batwing.
Batwing (a.) Shaped like a bat's wing; as, a bat's-wing burner.
Batta (n.) Extra pay; esp. an extra allowance to an English officer serving in India.
Batta (n.) Rate of exchange; also, the discount on uncurrent coins.
Battable (a.) Capable of cultivation; fertile; productive; fattening.
Battailant (v. i.) Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike.
Battailant (n.) A combatant.
Battailous (n.) Arrayed for battle; fit or eager for battle; warlike.
Battalia (n.) Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval force, for action.
Battalia (n.) An army in battle array; also, the main battalia or body.
Battalion (n.) 【軍】營，大隊 [C] [G]；協同作戰的部隊；軍隊 [P]；（組織在一起工作的）隊伍 [C] A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array. [archaic] "The whole battalion views." -- Milton.
Battalion (n.) (Mil.) An infantry command of two or more companies, which is the tactical unit of the infantry, or the smallest command which is self-supporting upon the battlefield, and also the unit in which the strength of the infantry of an army is expressed.
Note: In the United States army, since April 29, 1898, a battalion consists of four companies, and three battalions form a regiment. The term is also applied to two or more batteries of artillery combined into a single command.
Compare: Company
Company (n.) (Companies) 連 A body of soldiers, especially the smallest subdivision of an infantry battalion, typically commanded by a major or captain.
‘B Company of the Cheshire Regiment.’
Compare: Infantry
Infantry (n.) [Mass noun] 步兵（部隊）；步兵團 [the S] [G] Soldiers marching or fighting on foot; foot soldiers collectively.
‘The infantry advanced at sunrise.’
‘The ships carried two regiments of infantry.’
Battalion (v. t.) To form into battalions. [R.]
Battalion (n.) An army unit usually consisting of a headquarters and three or more companies.
Battalion (n.) A large indefinite number; "a battalion of ants"; "a multitude of TV antennas"; "a plurality of religions" [syn: battalion, large number, multitude, plurality, pack].
Battel (n.) A single combat; as, trial by battel. See Wager of battel, under Wager.
Battel (n.) Provisions ordered from the buttery; also, the charges for them; -- only in the pl., except when used adjectively.
Battel (v. i.) To be supplied with provisions from the buttery.
Battel (v. i.) To make fertile.
Battel (a.) Fertile; fruitful; productive.
Batteler (n.) Alt. of Battler.
Battler (n.) A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge.
Battened (imp. & p. p.) of Batten.
Battening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Batten.
Batten (v. t.) To make fat by plenteous feeding; to fatten.
Batten (v. t.) To fertilize or enrich, as land.
Batten (v. i.) To grow fat; to grow fat in ease and luxury; to glut one's self.
Batten (n .) A strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling; as, (a) pl. (Com. & Arch.) Sawed timbers about 7 by 2 1/2 inches and not less than 6 feet long. Brande & C. (b) (Naut.) A strip of wood used in fastening the edges of a tarpaulin to the deck, also around masts to prevent chafing. (c) A long, thin strip used to strengthen a part, to cover a crack, etc.
Batten (v. t.) To furnish or fasten with battens.
Batten (v. t.) The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.
Battening (n.) Furring done with small pieces nailed directly upon the wall.
Compare: Batsman
Batsman (n.; pl. Batsmen.) The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc.; in baseball, the batsman is usually called the batter. Bat's-wing
Battered (imp. & p. p.) of Batter.
Battering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Batter.
Batter (v. t.) 連續猛擊； 搗碎，打爛 To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart.
Batter (v. t.) 磨損 To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage. "Each battered jade." -- Pope.
Batter (v. t.) (Metallurgy) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
Batter (n.) A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery. -- King.
Batter (n.) Paste of clay or loam.
Batter (n.) (Printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
Batter (n.) 牆壁等的向上（後）緩傾，傾度 A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.
Batter rule, An instrument consisting of a rule or frame, and a plumb line, by which the batter or slope of a wall is regulated in building.
Batter (v. i.) (Arch.) To slope gently backward.
Batter (n.) The one who wields the bat in baseball; the one whose turn it is at bat; formerly called the batsman.
Batter (n.) (Baseball) A ballplayer who is batting [syn: batter, hitter, slugger, batsman].
Batter (n.) A liquid or semiliquid mixture, as of flour, eggs, and milk, used in cooking.
Batter (v.) Strike against forcefully; "Winds buffeted the tent" [syn: buffet, knock about, batter].
Batter (v.) Strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her" [syn: clobber, baste, batter].
Batter (v.) Make a dent or impression in; "dinge a soft hat" [syn: dinge, batter].
Compare: Batsman
Batsman (n.) (Batsmen)【棒】擊球手；【空】（航空母艦上的）返航著陸導航員 A player, especially in cricket, who is batting or whose chief skill is in batting.
Batterer (n.) One who, or that which, batters.
Battering-ram (n.) (Mil.) An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places.
Note: It was a large beam, with a head of iron, which was sometimes made to resemble the head of a ram. It was suspended by ropes to a beam supported by posts, and so balanced as to swing backward and forward, and was impelled by men against the wall. -- Grose.
Battering-ram (n.) A blacksmith's hammer, suspended, and worked horizontally.
Battering-ram (Ezek. 4:2; 21:22), A military engine, consisting of a long beam of wood hung upon a frame, for making breaches in walls. The end of it which was brought against the wall was shaped like a ram's head.
Battering-ram (n.) A long, heavy piece of wood used in war in the past for breaking down doors and walls.
Battering train (n.) (Mil.) 攻城炮列 A train of artillery for siege operations.
Batteries (n. pl. ) of Battery
Battery (n.) 電池；蓄電池 [C]；砲臺；排砲；（艦艇上的）砲組；砲兵連 [C]； 層架式雞籠 [C] The act of battering or beating.
Battery (n.) (Law) The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him.
Battery (n.) (Mil.) Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or defense.
Battery (n.) (Mil.) Two or more pieces of artillery in the field.
Battery (n.) (Mil.) A company or division of artillery, including the gunners, guns, horses, and all equipments. In the United States, a battery of flying artillery consists usually of six guns.
Barbette battery. See Barbette.
Battery d'enfilade, or Enfilading battery, One that sweeps the whole length of a line of troops or part of a work.
Battery en ['e]charpe, One that plays obliquely.
Battery gun, A gun capable of firing a number of shots simultaneously or successively without stopping to load.
Battery wagon, A wagon employed to transport the tools and materials for repair of the carriages, etc., of the battery.
In battery, Projecting, as a gun, into an embrasure or over a parapet in readiness for firing.
Masked battery, A battery artificially concealed until required to open upon the enemy.
Out of battery, or From battery, Withdrawn, as a gun, to a position for loading.
Battery (n.) (Elec.) A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously.
Battery (n.) (Elec.) An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity.
Note: In the trough battery, copper and zinc plates, connected in pairs, divide the trough into cells, which are filled with an acid or oxidizing liquid; the effect is exhibited when wires connected with the two end-plates are brought together. In Daniell's battery, the metals are zinc and copper, the former in dilute sulphuric acid, or a solution of sulphate of zinc, the latter in a saturated solution of sulphate of copper. A modification of this is the common gravity battery, so called from the automatic action of the two fluids, which are separated by their specific gravities. In Grove's battery, platinum is the metal used with zinc; two fluids are used, one of them in a porous cell surrounded by the other. In Bunsen's or the carbon battery, the carbon of gas coke is substituted for the platinum of Grove's. In Leclanch['e]'s battery, the elements are zinc in a solution of ammonium chloride, and gas carbon surrounded with manganese dioxide in a porous cell. A secondary battery is a battery which usually has the two plates of the same kind, generally of lead, in dilute sulphuric acid, and which, when traversed by an electric current, becomes charged, and is then capable of giving a current of itself for a time, owing to chemical changes produced by the charging current. A storage battery is a kind of secondary battery used for accumulating and storing the energy of electrical charges or currents, usually by means of chemical work done by them; an accumulator.
Battery (n.) A number of similar machines or devices in position; an apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts; as, a battery of boilers, of retorts, condensers, etc.
Battery (n.) (Metallurgy) A series of stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals.
Compare: Metallurgy
Metallurgy (n.) [Mass noun] 冶金術；冶金學 The branch of science and technology concerned with the properties of metals and their production and purification.
‘The constituents of bronze can be scientifically analysed to gain information on ancient metallurgy.’