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bate vb.1: to beat the wings impatiently and flutter away from the fist or perch Shr. IV. i. 199 “these kites That bate and beat,” 1H4 IV. i. 99 (old edd. “baited, bayted,” Malone “bated”); fig. H5 III. vii. 127 (with pun on BATE vb.2 3), Rom. III. ii. 14 “Hood my unmann'd blood, bating in my cheeks.”
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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