Bate

1. n. Strife; contention.
2. v. t. To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
3. v. t. To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
4. v. t. To leave out; to except.
5. v. t. To remove.
6. v. t. To deprive of.
7. v. i. To remit or retrench a part; — with of.
8. v. i. To waste away.
9. v. t. To attack; to bait.
10. imp. of Bite.
11. 1n. 1 Strife; contention.
12. 1v. t. 1 To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.