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 BAT (53 o ) BAT ever, the Jewifh writers call this a revelation from wooden (luff, from two to four inches broad, and aGod’s will, which he made to his chofen people, af- bout one inch thick; the length is pretty confiderable, ter all verbal prophecies had ceafed in Ifrael. but undetermined. Bath-zw/#/, a mixed metal, otherwife called prince s This term is chiefly ufed in fpeaking of doors and metal. See Prince’s Metal. windows of (hops, <bc. which are not framed of whole BATH-m?/dT. See the article Bath. * deal, foe. with ftyles, rails, and pannels like wainBATH A, the name of two towns, the one in Barbary, fcot, but are made to appear as if they were, by means in the kingdom of Algiers, and the other in Hungary, of thefe battens, bradded on the plain board round upon the banks of the Danube. the edges, and fometimes crofs them, and up and BATHING, the walking, foaking, fuppling, refrelh- down. ing, moiftening, <bc. the body, or any part thereof, BATTENBURY, a town of Dutch Guelderland, fituin water, liquor, <bc. for pleafure or health. See ated on the north Ihore of0the river Made, %|moft0 opBath. pofite to Ravenftein, in 5 3c/ E. long, and 51 45' Bathing a falcon, is when, weaned from her ramage N. lat. fooleries, Ihe is offered fome water to bathe berfelf in BATTEP^ING, the attacking a place, work, or the a bafon, where Ihe may Hand up to her thighs. By like, with heavy artillery. this means Ihe gathers ftrength and boldnefs. To batter in breach, is to play furioully on a work, BATHMUS, in anatomy, denotes the cavity of a bone, as the angle of a half-moon, in order to demolilh and fitted to receive the prominence of another bone. make a gape therein. In this they obferve never to BATICALA, in geography, a kingdom of India, upon fire a piece at the top, but all at the bottom, from the coaft of Malabar, to the north of the kingdom of three to fix feet from the ground. Canara. The battery of a camp is ufually furrounded with BATIS, in zoology* the trivial name of a fpecies of ra- a trench, and pallifadoes at the bottom, with two reja. See Raja. doubts on the wings, or certain places of arms, capaBATMAN, in commerce, a kind of weight ufe at Smyr- ble of covering the troops which arfe appointed for na, containing fix okes of four hundred drams each, their defence. See Battery. w'hich amount to fixteen pounds, fix ounces, and fif- Batte ring-//Vc£/, or pieces of battery. See Cannon teen drams of Englilh weight. and Gunnery. ' BATON, or Baston. See Baston. BATTERiNG-r«w, in antiquity. See Ram. BATRACHITES, or Frog-stone, a kind of gem BATTERiNG-r^/rw, in heraldry, a bearing, or coat of mentioned by the ancients, and fo called from its re- arms, refembling the military enfign of the fame name. fembling the colour of a frog. See Plate LI. fig. 10. BATRACHOMYOMACHIA, the battle of the frogs BATTERY, in the military art, a parapet thrown and the mice, the title of a fine burlefque poem, ufu- up to cover the gunners, and men employed about the ally afcribed to Homer. guns, from the enemy’s Ihot. This parapet is cut inThe fubjedt of the work is the death of Pfycharpax, to embraffures, for the cannon to fire through. The a moufe, fon to Toxartes, who, being mounted on the height of the embraflures, on the infide, is about three on the back of Phyfignathus, a frog, on a voyage to feet; but they go Hoping lower to the outfide. Their her palace, to which Ihe had invited him, was feized widenefs is two or three feet, but open to fix or feven with fear, when he faw himfelf in the middle of the on the outfide. The mafs of earth that is betwixt pond, fo that he tumbled off and was drowned. Phy- two embraflures, is called the merlon. The platform fignathus being fufpedted to have lhaken him off with of a battery is a floor of planks and fleepers, to keep defign, the mice demanded fatisfadlion, and unanimouf- the wheels of the guns from finking into the earth; ly declared war again!! the frogs. and is always made Hoping towards the embraflures, BATTA, a province of the kingdom of Congo in Afri- both to hinder the reverfe, and to facilitate the bringca, which is watered by the river Barbela. ing back of the gun. BATTALIA, denotes an army drawn up in order of Battery of mortars differs from a battery of guns, battle. for it is funk into the ground, and has no embrafBATTALION, a fmall body of infantry, ranged in form fures. of battle, and ready to engage. CV-'j/t-Batteries are two batteries, which play athwart A battalion ufually contains from 5 to 800 men ; one another, upon the fame thing, forming there an but the number it confifts of is not determined. They angle, and beating with more violence and deftruflion; are armed with firelocks, fwords, and bayonets; and becaufe what one bullet lhakes, the other beats down. divided into thirteen companies, one of which is gre- Battery funk or buried, is when its platform is funk, nadiers. They are ufually drawn up with fix men in or let down into the ground, fo that there mult be file, or one before another. Some regiments confifl: trenches cut in the earth, againft the muzzles of the but of one battalion, others are divided into four or guns, for them to fire out at, and to ferve for emfive. braflures. . BATTEL, a town of Suffex, fix miles north of Ha- Battery d'enfilade, is one that fcours, or fweeps the ftings, in E. long, and 50° 55' N. lat. whole length of a ftraight line. BATTEN, a name that workmen give to a fcantling of Battery en echarpe is that which plays obqliuely. Bat-