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Battery: Definition and part of speech

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Battery

  1. v. t. The pitcher and catcher together.
  2. v. t. The act of battering or beating.
  3. v. t. 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.
  4. v. t. Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or defense.
  5. v. t. Two or more pieces of artillery in the field.
  6. v. t. 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.
  7. v. t. A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously.
  8. v. t. An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity.
  9. v. t. 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.
  10. v. t. A series of stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals.
  11. 1v. t. 1 The pitcher and catcher together.

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.

Battalia: Definition and part of speech

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Battalia

  1. n. An army in battle array; also, the main battalia or body.
  2. n. Order of battle; disposition or arrangement of troops (brigades, regiments, battalions, etc.), or of a naval force, for action.

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.

Battle: Definition and part of speech

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Battle

  1. v. t. The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia.
  2. a. Fertile. See Battel, a.
  3. v. t. A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.
  4. v. t. A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life.
  5. v. t. A division of an army; a battalion.

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.

Battalion: Definition and part of speech

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Battalion

  1. v. t. To form into battalions.
  2. n. A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array.
  3. n. A regiment, or two or more companies of a regiment, esp. when assembled for drill or battle.

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.

Battel: Definition and part of speech

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Battel

  1. a. Fertile; fruitful; productive.
  2. n. A single combat; as, trial by battel. See Wager of battel, under Wager.
  3. n. Provisions ordered from the buttery; also, the charges for them; — only in the pl., except when used adjectively.
  4. v. i. To be supplied with provisions from the buttery.
  5. v. i. To make fertile.

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.

Battler: Definition and part of speech

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Battler

  1. 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.

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.