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 or, I pant still through the hast I made thence; or, it may be seene by my panting what hast I made, how lately I came, from thence.   Il les chassa tout batant. Hee pursued them verie hard; &, Il les a mené batant iusques dans les portes de la ville. He gaue them a hot, and bloudie chace, euen vnto the gates of the towne.

Bat-beurre: m. A Churne-staffe.

Bate: f. A Rammer; a Pauers beetle; a Dawbers beater; th' instrument wherewith floores of earth are setled, and beaten leuell.

Bateau: m. A boat.  Bateau mere. Looke Mere. Estourdi de bateau. Extreamly benummed, and therby vnfit, or vnreadie, for a suddaine imployment.  Nous menerons le bateau d'un'autre sorte. We will handle the businesse, or carrie the matter, after another manner.

Batelage: m. Iugling, Legerdemaine.

Batelée. vne batelée de, &c; a boatfull of.

Bateleresque: com. Iugling, or Iugler-like.

Batelerie: f. as Bastelerie. Batelet: m. A little boat, or skiffe.

Bateleur. as Basteleur. Batelier: m. A boatman, shipman, skipper.

Bateliere: f. A ferrie-woman, or boat-woman.

Batellé. Clappered; said of a Bell; in Blason. Batemare: f. A wagtayle, or water Swallow.

Batement: m. A beating, thwacking, lamming, bumping, swindging, battering; also, a threshing.  Le batement de la mer. The working of the sea; also, the ebbing thereof.

Baterie: f. A beating; or batterie.

Bateur: m. A beater, cudgeller, swindger; also, a thresher.  Bateurs d'estrade. The forragers, or forerunners of an Armie.  Bateur d'or. A gold-drawer, or gold-layer.  Bateur de pavez. An idle, or continuall walke-street; a ietter abroad in the streets; one that sees the towne serued when honest men are in bed; a lasciuious, or vnthrifty, night-walker; generally, any loose or mad youth, dissolute or disorderly yonker.  La grange est prés des bateurs. (Said of a Nunnerie thats neere vnto a Fryerie;) the Barne stands neere the Threshers.

Batisé. as Baptisé. Batiture de fer. The skales that flye from yron in the hammering thereof.

Batoir: m. A rammer, or pauing beetle; also, a Launderesses batting staffe; also, a threshing floore, or threshing place; also, a fulling Mill.

Batre: m. (Substantiuely) a beating; and hence;  Au batre faut l'amour: Prov. Much loue is lost by them that beat their loues.

Batre. To beat; thwack, bumpe, swindge, cudgell, belamme; also, to batter. (Frapper est d'un coup donné, batre de plusieurs coups iterez. Nicot.) Batre de l'aile. To smell ranke, or strong; (especially at th' arme-holes. Ne batre plus que d'une aile. To be halfe vndone; to rest but vpon one only assurance; to haue but one helpe left him.  Batre le beurre. To churne.  Batre le bled. To thresh.  Batre aux champs. To forrage, to make a road, to seek for bootie, or a prey abroad.  Batre les chemins. To belay the way, as pursetakers and boothalers doe.   Batre le chien devant le Lyon. To punish a meane person in the presence, and to the terror, of a great one.   Batre sa coulpe. See Coulpe.   Batre les draps. To full clothes.   Batre l'eau. To loose his labour, or imploy his time to no purpose.   Batre les eaux. A Deere to take soyle.   Batre leur eau. To disgest, or shake down, their drinke, (by exercise) as horses which be ridden two or three miles after they haue beene watered.   Batre les flancs. To pant hard for want of breath.  Batre à froid. To worke out a thing with great paines, or toyle, as a Smith, that frames a thing out of cold yron; also, as Bransler la pigue. Batre la laine. To leacher, to haire-beat it.  Batre la lictiere. A horse to rest, or continue long, in the stable.  Batre le pavé. See Pavé. Batre à tout poulmon. To pant extreamely, to be almost out of breath.  Batre les rues. To reuell, iet, or swagger vp and down the streets, a nights.  Batre le tambour avec les dents. To chatter, didder, say an Apes Paternoster.  Se batre. To fight, combat, bicker, goe to it (at sharpe.)  S'en batre les ioues. To repent throughly, or afflict himselfe cruelly, for.  Ils se faisoient batre à credit. They got themselues a cudgelling without any purpose; or, being out of loue with their ease, they would needs take vp a cudgelling on their credits.  Occasion trouve qui son chat bat: Pro. He that will beat his cat, inuents a cause for't.  Qui ueut batre son chien trouve assez de bastons: Prov. (Almost of the same sence; or as we say;) Tis an easie matter to find a staffe to beat a dog withall.  Tel porte le baston dont à son grand regret le bat on: Prov. Many a one carries about him a cudgell for his owne shoulders.

Bat-sain. A rude allarum giuen to a whole countrey by ringing, and beating of pots, kettles, basons, &c.

Battans d'un poisson. The gylls of a fish.

Batte: f. The boulster of a Saddle.  Les battes d'une porte. as les Batans. Battecul: m. A great linnen vaile, such as Nunnes weare.

Batteler. To ingle, &c; as Basteler. Battelerie: f. as Bastelerie. Battelessifue: f. The little yellow water-wagtaile.

Battequeuë. The same.

Batterie: f. as Baterie; also, a Platforme for batterie.

Batteur. See Bateur. Battier: m. A hackney, or hired iade.

Battre. Looke Batre. Battu. Looke Batu. Battue: f. A beating, or stroke with the feet, in a setled, and proportioned time; (a tearme of horsemanship.)

Batture: f. A stripe, a stroke; a beating. Batture de bronze. The skales that flye from brasse while it is hammered.

Battus. Looke Batus.

Batu: m. uë: f. Beaten; knocked, thwacked, bumped; swindged, belammed, cudgelled; also, battered; also, threshed; also, churned.