Definition: Strife; contention.
Definition: To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to
abate; to beat down; to lower.
Definition: To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
Definition: To leave out; to except.
Definition: To remove.
Definition: To deprive of.
Definition: To remit or retrench a part; -- with of.
Definition: To waste away.
Definition: To attack; to bait.
Definition: imp. of Bite.
Definition: To flutter as a hawk; to bait.
Definition: See 2d Bath.
Definition: An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain
animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer.
Definition: To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.