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 imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises.
Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
Reflection; thought; posit.