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Any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.
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An old woman.
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A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket.
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A turn at hitting the ball with a bat in a game.
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You've been in for ages. Can I have a bat now?
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The piece of wood on which the spinner places the coins and then uses for throwing them.
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Shale or bituminous shale.
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A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
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A part of a brick with one whole end.
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A stroke; a sharp blow.
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A stroke of work.
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Rate of motion; speed.
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A spree; a jollification.
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Manner; rate; condition; state of health.
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To hit with a bat or (figuratively) as if with a bat.
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He batted the ball away with a satisfying thwack.
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To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.
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To strike or swipe as though with a bat.
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The cat batted at the toy.
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To flutter
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bat one's eyelashes
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To wink.
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To bate or flutter, as a hawk.
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(usually with 'around' or 'about') To flit quickly from place to place.
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I've spent all week batting around the country.
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A packsaddle.
adjective
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Mad, insane.
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You must be bats to go out in the cold without a coat on.
Examples of bats in a Sentence
Bats are social, nocturnal and they migrate to a warmer climate, or hibernate.
But in 1681 Gerard Blasius had brought out at Amsterdam an Anatome Animalium, containing the results of all the dissections of animals that he could find; and the second part of this book, treating of Volatilia, makes a respectable show of more than one hundred and twenty closely-printed quarto pages, though nearly two-thirds is devoted to a treatise De Ovo et Pullo, containing among other things a reprint of Harvey's researches, and the scientific rank of the whole book may be inferred from bats being still classed with birds.
When she starts with her screaming tantrums it gets close to the point where only dogs and bats can hear her!
The third tractatus of this volume deals with birds - including among them bats, bees and other flying creatures; but as it is the first printed book in which figures of birds are introduced it merits notice, though most of the illustrations, which are rude woodcuts, fail, even in the coloured copies, to give any precise indication of the species intended to be represented.
The prevalence of rabies in bats in the UK may well be on the increase.
Any remaining vestige of an Indian Summer is quickly blown away Birds; Butterflies; Bats; Fungi; .. .
Although all mammals are thought to be susceptible to rabies infection, the primary hosts are carnivores and bats.
Mammals are very few; they include the rat and Pteropus and other bats.
The indigenous fauna of the islands is exceedingly poor in mammals, which are represented mainly by rats and bats.
In size they may be compared with cats; the long slender limbs are connected by a broad fold of skin extending outwards from the sides of the neck and body, the fingers and toes are webbed, and the hind-limbs joined by an outer membrane as in bats.
Troublesome insects, vampire bats, and the failure to introduce new blood into the degenerated herds, are responsible for its decline.
Of the Cheiroptera (bats) only Vesperugo maurus is characteristically alpine.
Bats, various species of rodents, and gazelles are very common, as is the ibex in the valleys of the Dead Sea.
The large fruit bats (Pteropus) occur in immense colonies, and are sometimes eaten by the natives.
Other discoveries include a few new squirrels and bats, and the occurrence of a lemur (Nycticebus tardigradus) in Tawi Tawi.
Rats, frogs and bats form actually the only animal life in the caves, but a great number of antediluvian animal bones have been found here, as well as human bones and numerous remains of prehistoric human settlements.
Audubon's Avenue, the one nearest the entrance, is occupied in winter by myriads of bats, that hang from the walls in clusters like swarms of bees.
Bats are numerous, but the species are for the most part not peculiar to the area; several European forms are found at the higher elevations.
Its animal life is in the main distinguished in species only from that of the Upper Sonoran belt, including among birds, the desert sparrow, desert thrasher, mocking-bird, hooded oriole; and among mammals small nocturnal species of kangaroo rats, pocket mice, mice and bats.
These nervures taper towards the extremity of the wing, and are strongest towards its root and anterior margin, where they supply the place of the arm in birds and bats.
Similar remarks are to be made of bats.
Those apparent inconsistencies in the dimensions of the body and wings are readily explained by the greater muscular development of the heavy-bodied, small-winged insects, birds and bats, and the increased power and rapidity with which the wings in them are made to oscillate.
While, therefore, there is apparently no correspondence between the area of the wing and the animal to be raised, there is, except in the case of sailing insects, birds and bats, an unvarying relation as to the weight and number of oscillations; so that the problem of flight would seem to resolve itself into one of weight, power, velocity and small surfaces, versus buoyancy, debility, diminished speed and extensive surfaces - weight in either case being a sine qua non.
That no fixed relation exists between the area of the wings and the size and weight of the body to be elevated is evident on comparing the dimensions of the wings and bodies of the several orders of insects, bats and birds.
Formerly bears, wolves and other wild animals took refuge in its fastnesses; and bats, rats, mice and salamanders are frequent visitors.
In the southern and western islands the fauna is restricted mainly to foxes, bats, rats, mice, the sea otter, the penguin and other aquatic birds, and various cetaceans in the surrounding waters.
With one or two possible exceptions, like Argas vespertilonis, which has only been obtained from European bats, no species of tick is known to be confined to a particular host.
This absence of mammalian life in oceanic islands extends even to New Zealand, where the indigenous mammals comprise only two peculiar species of bats, the so-called Maori rat having been introduced by man.
Very different, on the other hand, is the condition of things in Australia and Papua, where marsupials (and monotremes) are the dominant forms of mammalian life, the placentals being represented (apart from bats, which are mainly of an Asiatic type) only by a number of more or less aberrant rodents belonging to the mouse-tribe, and in Australia by the dingo, or native dog, and in New Guinea by a wild pig.
Besides the dog and the pig, which (with the domestic fowl) must have been introduced in early times, the only land mammals are certain species of rats and bats.
The island contains twenty-five species of bats, mostly of African, but some of Indian, affinities.
In the southernmost islands are a small monkey, rats and mice, treeshrews (Cladobates nic.), bats, and flying-foxes, but it is doubtful if the "wild" pig is indigenous; cattle, when introduced and left, have speedily become "wild."
These may be adapted for use as swimming appendages, as in seals, or as wings, as in bats.
There will be a chance to look for bats and moths and also to see a barn owl.
Can put grills on cave entrances to prevent interference to hibernating bats.
Shortly after 9.30pm, 5 men approached the house wielding baseball bats.
So problems only arise when building or repair work is being done which would disturb a colony of roosting bats.
The use of sewage treatment works as foraging sites by insectivorous bats.
The Guide reckoned we saw about 3.5 million Mexican Free-tailed bats exit the Cave in one hour 7.30-8.30pm.
An opportunity to listen to bats using our bat detector.
Methods Samples of DNA were collected under license from English Nature from greater horseshoe bats in Dorset during 2005.
It represented an important breeding ground for frogs and was a definite feeding ground for owls and bats.
A very great deal has still to be learned regarding carrier bats - not least by the bat conservationists.
The cow dung attracts insects which provide a food source for the bats.
We then had a look at a small group of False Vampire Bats asleep under a palm frond.
Experience thick tropical forest and see fruit bats, a host of reptiles and the celebrated birdlife.
These four tunnels are now gated to prevent disturbance to the bats.
This project provides the first purpose-built hibernaculum for bats at Whipsnade, however, we are not relying on this alone.
Letters reproduced from the Dundee Courier regarding rabies in bats.
Bat rabies is different from classical rabies and rarely affects animals other than bats.