BATTEN  . (1) A See also:

• TERM

term (a See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of See also:

• BATON (Fr. baton, baston, from Late Lat. basto, a stick or staff)

baton ") used in See also:

• JOINERY

joinery (q.v.) for a See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board not more than 4 to 7 in. broad or 3 in. thick, used for various purposes, such as for strengthening or holding together laths and other See also:

• WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

wood-See also:

• WORK

work; and specially, on board See also:

• SHIP

ship, a See also:

• STRIP

strip of wood nailed to a See also:

• MAST (2) (Anglo-Saxon maest, food, common to some Teutonic languages, and ultimately connected with " meat")
• MAST (I) (O. Eng. maest; a common Teutonic word, cognate with Lat. malus; from the medieval latinized form mast us comes Fr. malt)

mast to prevent rubbing, or fixing down a See also:

• TARPAULIN, or TARPAULING (as if tarpalling, from tar, and palling, a covering, Lat. palla, a mantle)

tarpaulin over a hatchway, in. rough See also:

• WEATHER (O. Eng. weder; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Du. weder, Dan. veir, Icel. ve8r, and Ger. Wetter and Gewitter, storm; the root is wa- to blow, from which is derived " wind ")

weather, to keep out See also:

• WATER

water . (2) A verb (the See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root is found in words of several See also:

• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages meaning profit or improvement, and also in the See also:

• ENGLISH

English "better" ' Mr C . A. See also:

• VAN

van Ophuijsen has published (in Bijd. tot See also:

• LAND

Land-, See also:

• TAAL

Taal-en Volken-Kunde, 1886) an interesting collection of Battak See also:

• POETRY

poetry . He describes a curious See also:

• LEAF (O. Eng. leaf, cf. Dutch loof, Ger. Laub, Swed. lof, &c.; possibly to be referred to the root seen in Gr. Ma-eta, to peel, strip)

leaf See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language used by Battak lovers, in which the name of some leaf or plant is substituted for the word with which it has greatest phonetic similarity . and " See also:

• BOOT

boot ") meaning to improve in See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition, especially in the See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case of animals by feeding; so, to feed gluttonously; the word is used figuratively of prospering at the expense of another .