Index of English words, starting with "ba"

(1) - Battle (v. t.) To assail in battle; to fight.
(2) - Battle (n.) To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories.
(3) - Battle (v. t.) The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia.
(4) - Battle (v. t.) A division of an army; a battalion.
(5) - Battle (v. t.) A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life.
(6) - Battle (v. t.) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.
(7) - Battle (a.) Fertile. See Battel, a.

(1) - Battlement (n.) pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches.
(2) - Battlement (n.) One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.