battery (2 not a common sense in or outside S.)
1.
beating, assailing with blows, also fig. John II. i. 446, Cym. I. iv. 23; in law,
unlawful attack on another by beating or wounding
Tw.N. IV. i. 38
“an action of
battery,”
Ham. V. i. 110.
2.
wound, bruise 3H6 III. i. 37,
Ven. 426
“where a heart is hard,
they make no battery.”
