Defn: Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath.
Macaulay.
BATEFUL
Bate"ful, a.
Defn: Exciting contention; contentious. [Obs.] "It did bateful question frame. " Sidney.
BATELESS
Bate"less, a.
Defn: Not to be abated. [Obs.] Shak.
BATEMENT
Bate"ment, n. Etym: [For Abatement. See 2d Bate.]
Defn: Abatement; diminution. Moxon. Batement light (Arch.), a window or one division of a window having vertical sides, but with the sill not horizontal, as where it follows the rake of a staircase.
BATFISH
Bat"fish`, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A name given to several species of fishes: (a) The Malthe vespertilio of the Atlantic coast. (b) The flying gurnard of the Atlantic (Cephalacanthus spinarella). (c) The California batfish or sting ray (Myliobatis Californicus.)
BATFOWLER
Bat"fowl`er, n.