Vocabulary : Battery to Battlement

Battery : The act of battering or beating. ;; The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him. ;; Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or defense. ;; Two or more pieces of artillery in the field. ;; A company or division of artillery, including the gunners, guns, horses, and all equipments. In the United States, a battery of flying artillery consists usually of six guns. ;; A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously. ;; An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity. ;; A number of similar machines or devices in position; an apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts; as, a battery of boilers, of retorts, condensers, etc. ;; A series of stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals. ;; The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down. ;; The pitch
Batting : of Bat ;; The act of one who bats; the management of a bat in playing games of ball. ;; Cotton in sheets, prepared for use in making quilts, etc.; as, cotton batting.
Battle : Fertile. See Battel, a. ;; A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat. ;; A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life. ;; A division of an army; a battalion. ;; The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia. ;; To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories. ;; To assail in battle; to fight.
Battle range : The range within which the fire of small arms is very destructive. With the magazine rifle, this is six hundred yards.
Battle ship : An armor-plated man-of-war built of steel and heavily armed, generally having from ten thousand to fifteen thousand tons displacement, and intended to be fit to meet the heaviest ships in line of battle.

Battle-ax : Alt. of Battle-axe
Battle-axe : A kind of broadax formerly used as an offensive weapon.
Battled : of Battle ;; Embattled.
Battledoor : An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock. ;; A child's hornbook.
Battlement : One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications. ;; pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches.