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 BAY BAT ( 531 ) Battery^ revcrfe, that which plays upon the enemy’s tween Salamanca and Corica, and are thought to be defeended from the Goths back. Battery is when feveral guns play at the BATZ, a copper coin mixed with fome filver, and current at different rates, according to the alloy, in Nufame time upon one place. Battery, in law, the ftriking, beating, or offering remberg, Bafil, Fribourg, Lucerne, and other cities any violence to another perfon, for which damages of Germany and Switzerland. BAVARIA, one of the circles of the German empire, may be recovered. BATTEURS d'ejlrade, or Scouts, are horfemen fent lying between Audria on the ead, and Swabia on the out before, and on the wings of an army, one, two, wed. The duke of Bavaria is one of the nine electors. or three miles, to make difeoveries. BATTLE, a general engagement between two armies, See Elector. in a country fufficiently open for them to encounter in BAVAY; a fmall town in the province of Hainalt in French Flanders, about twelve miles fouth-wed of front, and at the fame time. Other great addons, though of a longer duration, and Mons, in 30 4Q/ E. long, and 50° 25 N. lat. even attended with a greater daughter, are only called BAUHINIA, in botany, a genus of the decandria monogynia clafs. The calix has five divifions, and is defights. iVhtW Battle, the fame with a fea-fight, or engage- ciduous ; the petals are open, oblong, and inferred by claws into the calix. The fpecies are eight, all nament between two fleets of men of war. Before a naval battle, every fquadron ufually fubdi- tives of the Indies. vides itfelf into three equal divifions, with a referve BAVINS, in the military art, denote brufti-faggots^ of certain fhips out of every fquadron to bring up with the brudr at length. their rear. Every one of thefe, obferving a due birth BAUM, in botany. See Melissa. and didance, are in the battle to fecond one another ; BAURAC, a name ancienty ufed for nitre. and the better t© avoid confufion and falling foul of BAUTZEN, the chief town of Lufatia in Germany, aeach other, to charge, difeharge, and fall off, by bout thirty-five miles north-ead of Drefden, in 140 30^ threes or fives, more or lefs, as the fleet is greater or E. long, and 51° 15' N. lat. fmaller. The fhips of referve are inftrudted either to BAWLING, among fportfmen, the fame with babbling. fuccour and relieve thofe thit are any way in danger; See Babbling. or to fupply, and put themfelves in the place of thofe BAY, in geography, an arm of the fea {hooting up into the land, and terminating in a nook. It is a kind of that lhall be made unferviceable. As for a Ileet confiding but of few {hips, when ob- lefler gulf, bigger than a creek, and is larger in its liged to fight in an open fea, it (hould be brought up middle within than at its entrance. The larged and to battle in only one front, with the chief admiral in mod noted bays in the world ate thofe of Bifcay, the middle of them, and on each fide of him the Bengal, Hudfon’s, Panama, Bay, among farmers, a term ufed to fignify the magnidronged and bed provided {hips of the fleet. Battle is alfo ufed figuratively, for a reprefentation tude of a barn ; as, if a barn confids of a floor and two of a battle in fculpture, painting, and the like. heads, where they lay corn, they call it a barn of two BATTLE-/-dy.7?/, in cock-fighting, a fight between three, bays. The bays are from fourteen to twenty feet long.: five, or feven cocks all engaged together, fo that the Bay denotes likewife a pound head, made to keep in. cock which Hands longed gets the day. dore of water for driving the wheels of the furnace or Battle-«x, a kind of halbard, fird introduced into hammer belonging to an iron-mill, by the dream that England by the Danes. comes thence through a flood-gate, called the pen-Jlock. BATTLEMENTS, in architedure, are indentures or Bay is alfo one of the colours of the hair of horfes, innotches in the top of a wall or other building, in the clining to red, and coming pretty near the colour of a, form of embraflures, for the fake of looking though chefnut. There are five different gradations of the them. bay-colour, viz. chefnut-bay, light-bay, yellow-bay BATEOLOGY, in grammar, a fuperfluous repetition or dun-day, bloody-bay, which is alfo called fcarletof fome words or things. bay, and the brown-bay. BATTON, Batoon, or Baston. SccBaston. among huntfmen. Deer are faid to dand at bay,, BATTORY, in commerce, a name given by the Hanfe Bay, when, after being hard runy they turn head againd the. towns to their country-houfes and warehoufes in fo- hounds. reign countries. The principal batteries were at Lon- BAY-rr?(?, See Laurus.. don, Archangel, Novogorod, Liftion, Venice, and BAY-falt. See Salt. Antwerp. a city of Normandy in France, about fifBATTUS, an order of penitents at Avignon, and in BAYEUX, 0 miles north-wed of Caen, in 50' W. long. and. Provence, whofe piety carries them to exercife very teen 49 20 N. fevere difeipline upon themfelves, both in public and BAYONET, lat. in the military art,, a diort broad dagger, private. formerly with a round handle fitted for the bore of a; BATUECOS, or Los Batuecos, a people of Spain in firelock, to be fixed there after the foldier had fired ; the kingdom of Leon, that inhabit the mountains be- but they are now made with iron handles and rings, that