To contend or strive with blows or arguments.
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 reduce the force of something; to abate.
To cut off, remove, take away.
To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
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.
To prosper or fare well.
To thrive or grow well.
To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
To make bold, sweeping movements with.
To be in a period of greatest influence.
To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.
An ornamentation.
A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.
A decorative embellishment on a building.