Word Meaning

Meaning of "bate" and the crossword clue

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