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Batten

Batten (batten)
v. t.(b1913 webster dictionaryt"t'n)
Bat"ten
[imp. *** p. p. Battened (-t'nd)] p. pr. *** vb. n. Battening.] [See Batful.]
  1. To make fat by plenteous feeding] to fatten.
    "Battening our flocks." Milton.
  2. To fertilize or enrich, as land.

Batten

Batten (batten)
v. i.
Bat"ten
  1. To grow fat; to grow fat in ease and luxury; to glut one's self.
    Dryden.

    The pampered monarch lay battening in ease.
    Garth.

    Skeptics, with a taste for carrion, who batten on the hideous facts in history, -- persecutions, inquisitions.
    Emerson.

Batten

Batten (batten)
n .
Bat"ten
  1. A strip of sawed stuff, or a scantling;
    as, (a) pl. (Com. *** Arch.)

Batten

Batten (batten)
v. t.
Bat"ten
  1. To furnish or fasten with battens.

    To batten down, to fasten down with battens, as the tarpaulin over the hatches of a ship during a storm.

Batten

Batten (batten)
n.
Bat"ten
  1. The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.












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