Bate

Bate

(1): (n.) An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; - employed in the preparation of hides; grainer.

(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. i.) To remit or retrench a part; - with of.

(5): (v. i.) To flutter as a hawk; to bait.

(6): (v. i.) To waste away.

(7): (n.) See 2d Bath.

(8): (n.) Strife; contention.

(9): (v. t.) To deprive of.

(10): (v. t.) To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.

(11): (v. t.) To attack; to bait.

(12): imp. of Bite.

(13): (v. t.) To leave out; to except.

(14): (v. t.) To remove.