bate to flutter, to flap the wings (a term in
falconry.
“Bate, Bateing or Bateth, is when the Hawk fluttereth with her Wings
either from Pearch or Fist, as it were striveing to get away; also it is taken for her
striving with her Prey, and not forsaking it till it be overcome.”
R. Holme's Academy of
Armory and Blazon [Terms of art used in Falconry,
etc.], B. ii. c. xi. p. 238):
“these kites That bate,”
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, iv. 1.
180
;
“'tis a hooded valour; and when it appears, it will bate”
HENRY V., iii. 7. 109
(in which passage is a quibble between bate, the
term of falconry, and bate, that is, abate, fall off, dwindle);
“Bated like eagles,”
1 HENRY IV., iv. 1. 99
; (
“Baited,”
Cambridge
; used, it would seem, for Bating)
“Hood my unmann'd blood bating in my cheeks,”
ROMEO AND JULIET, iii. 2.
14.
See hood, etc.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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