Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 19
Battery (n.) The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down.
Battery (n.) (Baseball) The pitcher and catcher together.
Battery (n.) Group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place.
Battery (n.) A device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series [syn: battery, electric battery].
Battery (n.) A collection of related things intended for use together; "took a battery of achievement tests".
Battery (n.) A unit composed of the pitcher and catcher.
Battery (n.) A series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores [syn: battery, stamp battery].
Battery (n.) The heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target; "they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops"; "the shelling went on for hours without pausing" [syn: barrage, barrage fire, battery, bombardment, shelling].
Battery (n.) An assault in which the assailant makes physical contact [syn: battery, assault and battery].
Battery (n.) (Electrical device) (A2) [ C ] 電池，電芯 A device that produces electricity to provide power for radios, cars, etc..
// A rechargeable battery.
// A battery-operated hairdryer.
// This alarm clock takes two medium-sized batteries.
// I think the battery is dead/ flat (= has lost its power).
Battery (n.) (Large number) A battery of sth 一組，一套，一連串（同類事物） A number of things of a similar type.
// In the kitchen an impressive battery of stainless steel utensils hangs on the wall.
Battery (n.) (Guns) [ C ] 炮組，排炮 A number of large guns and similar weapons operating together in the same place.
// The shore battery opened fire.
Battery (n.) (Attack) [ U ] 暴力行為，毆打 Assault and battery.
Battery (a.) [ Before noun ] 層架式養雞法 Using a system of producing a large number of eggs cheaply by keeping a lot of chickens in rows of small cages (= boxes made of wire).
// Battery farming.
// Battery hens/ eggs.
Compare Factory farming
Factory farming (n.) [ U ] 工廠化養殖 A system of farming in which a lot of animals are kept in a small closed area, in order to produce a large amount of meat, eggs, or milk as cheaply as possible.
// A campaign against factory farming.
Batting (n.) The act of one who bats; the management of a bat in playing games of ball.
Batting (n.) Cotton in sheets, prepared for use in making quilts, etc.; as, cotton batting.
Battle (a.) Fertile. See Battel, a. [Obs.]
Battle (n.) 戰鬥；戰役 [C]；交戰；爭鬥 [U] A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.
Battle (n.) A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life.
The whole intellectual battle that had at its center the best poem of the best poet of that day. -- H. Morley.
Battle (n.) A division of an army; a battalion. [Obs.]
The king divided his army into three battles. -- Bacon.
The cavalry, by way of distinction, was called the battle, and on it alone depended the fate of every action. -- Robertson.
Battle (n.) The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia. [Obs.] -- Hayward.
Note: Battle is used adjectively or as the first part of a self-explaining compound; as, battle brand, a "brand" or sword used in battle; battle cry; battlefield; battle ground; battle array; battle song.
Battle piece, A painting, or a musical composition, representing a battle.
Battle royal. A fight between several gamecocks, where the one that stands longest is the victor. -- Grose.
Battle royal. A contest with fists or cudgels in which more than two are engaged; a m[^e]l['e]e. -- Thackeray.
Drawn battle, One in which neither party gains the victory.
To give battle, To attack an enemy.
To join battle, To meet the attack; to engage in battle.
Pitched battle, One in which the armies are previously drawn up in form, with a regular disposition of the forces.
Wager of battle. See under Wager, n.
Syn: Conflict; encounter; contest; action.
Usage: Battle, Combat, Fight, Engagement. These words agree in denoting a close encounter between contending parties. Fight is a word of less dignity than the others. Except in poetry, it is more naturally applied to the encounter of a few individuals, and more commonly an accidental one; as, a street fight. A combat is a close encounter, whether between few or many, and is usually premeditated. A battle is commonly more general and prolonged. An engagement supposes large numbers on each side, engaged or intermingled in the conflict.
Battled (imp. & p. p.) of Battle
Battling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Battle
Battle (v. i.) To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories.
To meet in arms, and battle in the plain. -- Prior.
Battle (v. t.) To assail in battle; to fight.
Battle (n.) A hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement" [syn: battle, conflict, fight, engagement].
Battle (n.) An energetic attempt to achieve something; "getting through the crowd was a real struggle"; "he fought a battle for recognition" [syn: struggle, battle].
Battle (n.) An open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); "the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"-- Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs" [syn: conflict, struggle, battle].
Battle (v.) Battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; "The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq"; "We must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they battled over the budget" [syn: battle, combat].
Battle (n.) [ C ] (Fight) (B1) 戰鬥，戰役，戰爭 A fight between armed forces.
// The Battle of the Somme.
// Her only brother was killed in battle (= while fighting).
Battle (n.) [ C ] (Argument) (B2) 爭論；鬥爭 An argument between two groups or against a situation that a group wants to change.
// The aid agency continues the battle against ignorance and superstition.
// The battle for women's rights still goes on.
Idiom:
Battle of wits 鬥智，智慧的較量 The situation in which two people or two groups use their intelligence and ability to think quickly to try to defeat each other.
Idiom:
Do battle 開戰，交戰；鬥爭；辯論 To fight or argue in a serious way.
// No agreement was reached and both sides prepared to do battle.
Battle (v.) [ I ] 作戰，戰鬥 To fight.
// Police battled with residents in this inner-city area for three days.
// For years the two nations battled over territory.
Battle (v.) [ I ] (C2) 鬥爭，奮鬥 To try hard to achieve something in a difficult situation.
// He had to battle against prejudice to get a job.
// Her parents battled for the right to be involved in the decision-making.
// We battled with the elements to get the roof fixed.
Battle-ax (n.) Alt. of Battle-axe
Battle-axe (n.) A kind of broadax formerly used as an offensive weapon.
Battled (p. p.) Embattled.
Battledoor (n.) An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock.
Battledoor (n.) A child's hornbook.
Battlefield (n.) [ C ] (Place) 戰場，戰地 A place where a battle is being fought or has been fought in the past.
// They carried the wounded from the battlefield.
// A Civil War battlefield.
Battlefield (n.) [ C ] (Subject) 爭論主題；鬥爭領域 A subject on which people strongly disagree.
// The issue has become a political battlefield in recent years.
Battleground (n.) 戰場，鬥爭的舞臺 A region where a battle is fought; same as {battlefield}.
Syn: battlefield, field of battle, field.
Battleground (n.) A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields" [syn: {battlefield}, {battleground}, {field of battle}, {field of honor}, {field}].
Battlement (n.) [C] (Arch.) （塔、城堡等）設有槍砲眼的城垛 [P1]；雉堞式裝飾牆 One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.
Battlement (n.) pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches.
Battlement (n.) A rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns [syn: battlement, crenelation, crenellation].
Battlement, () A parapet wall or balustrade surrounding the flat roofs of the houses, required to be built by a special law (Deut. 22:8). In Jer. 5:10, it denotes the parapet of a city wall.
Battlemented (a.) Having battlements.
A battlemented portal. -- Sir W. Scott.
Battlemented (a.) Protected with battlements or parapets with indentations or embrasures for shooting through.
Battlemented (a.) Having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; "a crenelated molding" [syn: embattled, battlemented, castled, castellated].
Battologist (n.) One who battologizes.
Battologize (v. t.) To keep repeating needlessly; to iterate. -- Sir T. Herbert.
Battology (n.) A needless repetition of words in speaking or writing. -- Milton.
Batton (n.) See Batten, and Baton.
Battue (n.) (Hunting) The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game.
Battue (n.) (Hunting) The game itself.
Battue (n.) (Hunting) The wanton slaughter of game. --Howitt.
Battue (n.) A hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter.
Battue (n.) Indiscriminate slaughter; "a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered"; "ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name"; "the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder"; "a huge prison battue was ordered" [syn: bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, battue].
Batture (n.) An elevated river bed or sea bed.
Battuta (n.) The measuring of time by beating.
Batty (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, a bat.
Batule (n.) A springboard in a circus or gymnasium; -- called also batule board.
Batzen (n. pl. ) of Batz
Batz (n.) A small copper coin, with a mixture of silver, formerly current in some parts of Germany and Switzerland. It was worth about four cents.
Baubee (n.) Same as Bawbee.
Bauble (n.) A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything.
Bauble (n.) The fool's club.
Baubling (a.) See Bawbling.
Baudekin (n.) The richest kind of stuff used in garments in the Middle Ages, the web being gold, and the woof silk, with embroidery : -- made originally at Bagdad.
Baudrick (n.) A belt. See Baldric.
Bauk (n. & v.) Alt. of Baulk
Baulk (n. & v.) See Balk.
Baunscheidtism (n.) A form of acupuncture, followed by the rubbing of the part with a stimulating fluid.
Bauxite (n.) (Min.) Alt. of Beauxite
Beauxite (n.) (Min.) 【礦】鐵鋁氧石，鋁氧石 A ferruginous hydrate of alumina. It is largely used in the preparation of aluminium and alumina, and for the lining of furnaces which are exposed to intense heat.
Compare: Ferruginous
Ferruginous (a.) 鐵的；赤褐色的 Containing iron oxides or rust.
‘A band of ferruginous limestone.’
Compare: Oxide
Oxide (n.) 氧化物 [C] [U] A binary compound of oxygen with another element or group.
‘Nitrogen oxide.’
Compare: Oxygen
Oxygen (n.) [Mass noun]【化】氧；氧氣 [U] A colourless, odourless reactive gas, the chemical element of atomic number 8 and the life-supporting component of the air.
Oxygen is essential to plant and animal life and is a constituent of most organic compounds. It forms about 20 per cent of the earth's atmosphere, and is the most abundant element in the earth's crust, mainly in the form of oxides, silicates, and carbonates.
‘If breathing stops, there is no oxygen getting to the brain and the cells begin to die.’
‘Hydrogen and carbon in the fuel combine with the oxygen in the air to form carbon dioxide and water.’
[As modifier ]‘An oxygen supply.’
Ferruginous (a.) Reddish brown; rust-coloured.
Bavarian (a.) Of or pertaining to Bavaria.
Bavarian (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Bavaria.
Bavaroy (n.) A kind of cloak or surtout.
Bavian (n.) A baboon.
Bavin (n.) A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood.
Bavin (n.) Impure limestone.
Bawbee (n.) A halfpenny.
Bawble (n.) A trinket. See Bauble.
Bawbling (a.) Insignificant; contemptible.
Bawcock (n.) A fine fellow; -- a term of endearment.
Bawd (n.) A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for a lewd purpose; a procurer or procuress; a lewd person; -- usually applied to a woman.
Bawd (v. i.) To procure women for lewd purposes.
Bawdily (adv.) Obscenely; lewdly.
Bawdiness (n.) Obscenity; lewdness.
Bawdrick (n.) A belt. See Baldric.
Bawdry (n.) The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust.
Bawdry (n.) Illicit intercourse; fornication. -- Shak.
Bawdry (n.) 猥褻的言語 Obscenity; filthy, unchaste language. "The pert style of the pit bawdry." -- Steele.
Bawdry (n.) Lewd or obscene talk or writing; "it was smoking-room bawdry"; "they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy" [syn: bawdry, bawdy].
Compare: Obscenity
Obscenity (n.) [Mass noun] (Obscenities) 猥褻；淫穢 [U]；猥褻的言語（或行為）[P1]； 可憎的事 [C] The state or quality of being obscene.
‘The book was banned for obscenity.’
Obscenity (n.) [Mass noun] Obscene behaviour, language, or images.
‘A stream of invective and obscenity.’
Obscenity (n.) [Mass noun] [Count noun] An extremely offensive word or expression.
‘The men scowled and muttered obscenities.’
What is different between Obscenity and Bawdry?
Bawdry is a very old and unusual word, you won't hear it very often. Most often you will hear dirty, naughty, risque, etc instead. All of these are usually used as describing a joke or song which has sexual innuendo, but is not extremely graphic.
Obscene/ obscenity is for more graphic, unacceptable content (porn, very graphic rap lyrics, etc) . This can be both a legal term (some obscene content does not get 1st amendment protection), as well as a social term.
The difference between the two is subjective. A high class, religious, conservative old woman might think a regular dirty joke is obscene.
Bawdy (a.) 猥褻的；下流的 Dirty; foul; -- said of clothes. [Obs.]
It [a garment] is al bawdy and to-tore also. -- Chaucer.
Bawdy (a.) Obscene; filthy; unchaste. "A bawdy story." -- Burke.
Bawdy (a.) Humorously vulgar; "bawdy songs"; "off-color jokes"; "ribald language" [syn: {bawdy}, {off-color}, {ribald}].
Bawdy (n.) Lewd or obscene talk or writing; "it was smoking-room bawdry"; "they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy" [syn: {bawdry}, {bawdy}].
Bawdy (a.) 淫穢的，猥褻作樂的，下流的 Containing humorous remarks about sex.
// Bawdy humour/ songs.
Bawdyhouse (n.) 妓院；娼寮 A house of prostitution; a house of ill fame; a brothel.
Bawdyhouse (n.) A building where prostitutes are available [syn: {whorehouse}, {brothel}, {bordello}, {bagnio}, {house of prostitution}, {house of ill repute}, {bawdyhouse}, {cathouse}, {sporting house}].
Bawhorse (n.) Same as Bathorse.
Bawled (imp. & p. p.) of Bawl
Bawling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bawl
Bawl (v. i.) 大喊，大叫 [（+at）]；放聲痛哭 To cry out with a loud, full sound; to cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; to shout; to vociferate.
Bawl (v. i.) To cry loudly, as a child from pain or vexation.
Bawl (v. t.) 大聲叫出 [（+out）]；叫賣（貨物） To proclaim with a loud voice, or by outcry, as a hawker or town-crier does. -- Swift.
Bawl (n.) [C] 大叫聲；號哭 A loud, prolonged cry; an outcry.
Bawl (v.) Shout loudly and without restraint [syn: {bawl}, {bellow}].
Bawl (v.) Make a raucous noise [syn: {yawp}, {bawl}].
Bawl (v.) Cry loudly; "Don't bawl in public!"
Bawler (n.) One who bawls.
Bawn (n.) An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure.
Bawn (n.) A large house.
Bawrel (n.) A kind of hawk.
Bawsin (n.) Alt. of Bawson
Bawson (n.) A badger.
Bawson (n.) A large, unwieldy person.
Baxter (n.) A baker; originally, a female baker.
Bay (a.) Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses.
Bay (n.) An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the same general character.
Bay (n.) A small body of water set off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc.
Bay (n.) A recess or indentation shaped like a bay.
Bay (n.) A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses, vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers.
Bay (n.) A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks.
Bay (n.) A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay.
Bay (n.) A berry, particularly of the laurel.
Bay (n.) The laurel tree (Laurus nobilis). Hence, in the plural, an honorary garland or crown bestowed as a prize for victory or excellence, anciently made or consisting of branches of the laurel.
Bay (n.) A tract covered with bay trees.
Bayed (imp. & p. p.) of Bay
Baying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bay
Bay (v. i.) To bark, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game.
Bay (v. t.) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay; as, to bay the bear.
Bay (v. i.) Deep-toned, prolonged barking.
Bay (v. i.) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
Bay (v. t.) To bathe.
Bay (n.) A bank or dam to keep back water.
Bay (v. t.) To dam, as water; -- with up or back.