Index of English words, starting with "ba"

(1) - Batiste (n.) Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton.

(1) - Batman (n.) A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load.
(2) - Batman (n.) A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds.

(1) - Baton (n.) An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister.
(2) - Baton (n.) A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances.