Mounting the tarred road, the wayfarer bore slightly to the right along the original village street; bating the aggressive "fronts" of one or two commercial innovators, this was old, calm, serene, gray in tone and restful, ornamented by three or four

Bating that Othello was black, the noble Moor wanted nothing which might recommend him to the affections of the greatest lady.

Bating a few bungling thrusts amid the doggerel of "Peter Pindar," he escaped scathless,gaining, on the other hand, a far more than ordinary proportion of poetical panegyric.

Bakshi Malek had as much, bating one balish of silver; the women belonging to the ambassadors had no silver given them, but they each received half the quantity of stufis that had been given to their lords.

For, bating some very few, and those, if I may so call them, superficial ideas of spirit, which by reflection we get of our own, and from thence the best we can collect of the Father of all spirits, the eternal independent Author of them, and us, and all things, we have no certain information, so much as of the existence of other spirits, but by revelation.

This I think, that, bating those places, which brought the Peripatetic Philosophy into their schools, where it continued many ages, without teaching the world anything but the art of wrangling, these maxims were nowhere thought the foundations on which the sciences were built, nor the great helps to the advancement of knowledge.

Adv. exclusive of, barring; except; with the exception of; save; bating.

He will grant you something, and bate more; and this bating shall in conclusion take away all he granted.

I think I have no more news; only give both our loves ("all three," says Dash) to Mrs. Patmore, and bid her get quite well, as I am at present, bating qualms, and the grief incident to losing a valuable relation.

They are at this identical moment under the snip and the paste of the fairest hands (bating chilblains) in Cambridge, soon to be transplanted to Suffolk, to the envy of half of the young ladies in Bury.

"You're no gentleman if you insult my mother, and if you'll come out here for a minute I'll give you a bating.

I think words are often no harder to bear than "a blue bating," and I have a reverence for poor old maids as great as for the nine Muses.

It must be admitted, however, that during the whole period, bating a few intervals, my mind was in a high state of excitement.

Bating the respect that is due to anomalous usage, there would be more propriety in compounding in quest of, in lieu of, and many similar phrases.

Thus bating, excepting, concerning, touching, respecting, during, pending, and a part of the compound notwithstanding, are literally participles; and some writers, in opposition to general custom, refer them always to their original class.

Bating his new division of accent to subject it sometimes to short quantity, he recognized very fully the dependence of quantity, long or short, whether in syllables or only in vowels, upon the presence or absence of accent or emphasis.

BATING, a preposition for except, is the imperfect participle of bate, to abate.

EXCEPT, bating, is from the imperative, or (according to Dr. Johnson) the ancient perfect participle of the verb to except; and EXCEPTING, when a preposition, is from the first participle of the same verb.

For, bating the mere difference of person, the author's example above is equal to this: "Your pleasures are past, W. H. Wells's are to come."

Bating one word, this might be an extract from an article on the formation of Mr. Gladstone's Home Rule Government.

"He's got my prayer-book," exclaimed one of them; "and I'll give him a bating for it; by St. Patrick, I will.

"It's a very hot day, and bating is warm work.

Here, antique dowagers and faded spinsters are all gay, laughing, rouged, and indulgentso that 'bating the subtraction of teeth and addition of wrinkles, the disparity between one score and four is not so great: "Gay rainbow silks their mellow charms enfold, Nought of these beauties but themselves is old.

but happier Prince, whose beard Was so remark'd, as marked out our Prince, Not bating us a hair.

"I call God to witness," he adds, "that I did then, and do now, and shall for ever, firmly believe, that every Bishop who gave his vote for either of these bills, did it with no other view (bating further promotion), than a premeditated design, from the spirit of ambition, and love of arbitrary power, to make the whole body of the clergy their slaves and vassals until the day of judgment, under the load of poverty and contempt.