BPage 90
- English Word Battering-ram Definition An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places.
- English Word Battering-ram Definition A blacksmith's hammer, suspended, and worked horizontally.
- English Word Battery Definition The act of battering or beating.
- English Word Battery Definition 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.
- English Word Battery Definition Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or defense.
- English Word Battery Definition Two or more pieces of artillery in the field.
- English Word Battery Definition 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.
- English Word Battery Definition A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously.
- English Word Battery Definition An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity.
- English Word Battery Definition 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.
- English Word Battery Definition A series of stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals.
- English Word Battery Definition The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down.
- English Word Battery Definition The pitcher and catcher together.
- English Word Batting Definition of Bat
- English Word Batting Definition The act of one who bats; the management of a bat in playing games of ball.
- English Word Batting Definition Cotton in sheets, prepared for use in making quilts, etc.; as, cotton batting.
- English Word Battle Definition Fertile. See Battel, a.
- English Word Battle Definition A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.
- English Word Battle Definition A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life.
- English Word Battle Definition A division of an army; a battalion.