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Battel   Listen
noun
Battel  n.  Provisions ordered from the buttery; also, the charges for them; only in the pl., except when used adjectively. (Univ. of Oxford, Eng.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Battel" Quotes from Famous Books



... enacted high treason For a man to speak truth 'gainst the head of a state, Let every wise man make a use of his reason To think what he will, but take heed what he prate; For the proverb doth learn us, He that stays from the battel sleeps in a whole skin, And our words are our own if we keep them within, What fools are we then that to prattle do begin Of things that do ...
— Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 • Charles Mackay

... did last from breake of day Till setting of the sun; For when they rung the evening bell, The battel scarce was done. ...
— The Book of Old English Ballads • George Wharton Edwards

... In Eastern Africa I know but one people, the Wanyika near Mombasah, who have certain images called "Kisukas;" they declare that this great medicine, never shown to Europeans, came from the West, and Andrew Battel (1600) found idols amongst the people whom he calls Giagas or Jagas, meaning Congoese chiefs. Moreover, the Gaboon pagans lodge their idols. Behind each larger establishment there is a dwarf hut, the miniature of ...
— Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton

... Senses, so that you shall fear no Foes; it raises up in him the Courage of a Lion, and provokes a desire to hunt and fight at Venus sports. When the Conjunction of Mars and Venus are rightly placed in a certain Constellation, they bring Fortune and Victory in Love and Affection, in Battel and joy, remaining in unity though the whole World should be against them: But because I am an Ecclesiastick under Church Government, and dedicated my Soul to God, without provocation of humane desires, and lusts of the Flesh, for they lead a direct way to Hell ...
— Of Natural and Supernatural Things • Basilius Valentinus



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