Bate

Definition of Bate

n.	1.	Strife; contention.
v. t.	1.	To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower. [imp. & p. p. Bated; p. pr. & vb. n. Bating.] He must either bate the laborer's wages, or not employ or not pay him. - Locke.
	2.	To allow by way of abatement or deduction. To whom he bates nothing of what he stood upon with the parliament. - South.
	3.	To leave out; to except. Bate me the king, and, be he flesh and blood, He lies that says it. - Beau. & Fl.
	4.	To remove. About autumn bate the earth from about the roots of olives, and lay them bare. - Holland.
	5.	To deprive of. When baseness is exalted, do not bate The place its honor for the person's sake. - Herbert.
v. i.	1.	To remit or retrench a part; - with of. Abate thy speed, and I will bate of mine. - Dryden.
	2.	To waste away.
v. t.	1.	To attack; to bait.
imp.	1.	imp. of Bite.
v. i.	1.	To flutter as a hawk; to bait.
n.	1.	(Jewish Antiq.) See 2d Bath.
	1.	An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; - employed in the preparation of hides; grainer.
v. t.	1.	To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.

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