(Saxon, bate, contention), the act of attack- ing and harassing greater and stronger animals by smaller or weaker ones, as bulls or bears by mastiffs or bull-dogs.

BAIZE, a coarse woollen stuff, in texture resembling flannel.

BAJAZET I., sultan of the Turks, commenced to reign in 1389, and died in 1403. See TURKEY, and CONSTANTI- NOPOLITAN HISTORY. The authority of the celebrated story of the iron cage, in which this monarch was said to have been carried about by his conqueror Timour, is considerably weak- ened by the silence of the Persian historian Sherefedin Ali. On the evidence on both sides of the question, see Gibbon.

BAJAZET II., son of Mahomet II., succeeded his father in 1481, and died in 1512. See TURKEY.