To remove or decrease something by cutting, erosion, melting, evaporation, or vaporization.
To undergo ablation; to become melted or evaporated and removed at a high temperature.
To reduce the force of something; to abate.
To deprive of.
To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
To soak leather so as to remove chemicals used in tanning; to steep in bate.
To masturbate.
To waste away.
To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
To cut off, remove, take away.
To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
Of a falcon: To flap the wings vigorously; to bait.
Strife; contention.
An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes hides supple in the process of tanning.
A vat which contains this liquid.