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BATIE, BAWTIE, _adj_ Round and plump, applied either to man or beast, Clydesd

BATIE-bum, BATIE-bumMIL, _s_ A simpleton, an inactive fellow

V ~Blaitiebum~

_Maitland P_

Fro noise Teut

_bommel_, a drone

BATS, _s pl_ The disease in horses called in E the _bots_, S

_Polwart_

Teut _botte_, papula, a swelling with many reddish pimples that eat and spread; Swed _bett_, pediculi, from _bit-a_, mordere

BATTALLING, BATTELLING, _s_ A battlement

_Douglas_

Fr _bastille_, _batille_, turriculis fastigiatus

BATTAR-AX, _s_ A battle-ax

_Dunbar_

Fr _battre_, Ital _battar-e_, to strike; also, to fight

_To_ BATTER, _v a_ To paste, to cause one body to adhere to another by means of a viscous substance, S

BATTER, _s_ A glutinous substance, used for producing adhesion, paste, S

_To_ BATTER, _v a_ To lay a stone so as to make it incline to one side, or to hew it obliquely; a term used in masonry, S

Fr _battre_, to beat

BATTILL-GERS ”Thick, rank, like men in order of battle,” Rudd This, however, rass that is well stocked, South of S

Teut _bottel_, and _bottel-boom_, denote the arbutus, or wild strawberry tree