Architecture, are indentures or notches in the top of a wall or other building, in the form of embrasures, for the sake of looking through them.

Battology, in Grammar, a superfluous repetition of some words or things.

Button, in Merchandize, a name given to certain pieces of wood or deal for flooring or other purposes.

Battery, a name given by the Hans Towns to their magazines or factories abroad. The chief of these batteries are those at Archangel, Novogrod, Berghem, Lisbon, Venice, and Antwerp.

Batua, Butua, Buthoe, or Butoecce, in Ancient Geography, a town of Dalmatia situated on the Adriatic; now Budva; which see.

Battus, an order of penitents at Avignon and in Provence, whose piety carries them to exercise severe discipline upon themselves both in public and private.

Batz, a copper coin mixed with some silver, and current at different rates, according to the alloy, in Nuremberg, Basil, Fribourg, Lucerne, and other cities of Germany and Switzerland.