[Batn-el-Hajar], a stony tract in the Nubian Desert, near the third cataract of the Nile.
[Baton-Rouge] (10), a city on the E. bank of the Mississippi, 130 m. above New Orleans, and capital of the state of Louisiana; originally a French settlement.
[Baton-sinister], a bend-sinister like a marshal's baton, an indication of illegitimacy.
[Batoum`] (10), a town in Transcaucasia, on the E. of the Black Sea; a place of some antiquity; recently ceded by Turkey to Russia, but only as a mere trading port; has an excellent harbour, and has improved under Russian rule.
[Batrachomyomachia], a mock-heroic poem, "The Battle of the Frogs and Mice," falsely ascribed to Homer.
[Battas], a Malay race, native to Sumatra, now much reduced in numbers, and driven into the interior.
[Battersea], a suburb of London, on the Surrey side of the Thames, opposite Chelsea, and connected with it by a bridge; with a park 185 acres in extent; of plain and recent growth; till lately a quite rural spot.
[Batthya`ni, Count], an Hungarian patriot, who fought hard to see his country reinstated in its ancient administrative independence, but failed in his efforts; was arrested, tried for high treason by court-martial, and sentenced to be shot, to the horror, at the time, of the civilised world (1809-1849).
[Battle], a market-town in Sussex, near Hastings, so called from the battle of Senlac, in which William the Conqueror defeated Harold in 1066.