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- Battery - v. t. - The act of battering or beating.
- Battery - v. t. - The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him.
- Battery - v. t. - Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or defense.
- Battery - v. t. - Two or more pieces of artillery in the field.
- Battery - v. t. - A company or division of artillery, including the gunners, guns, horses, and all equipments. In the United States, a battery of flying artillery consists usually of six guns.
- Battery - v. t. - A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously.
- Battery - v. t. - An apparatus for generating voltaic electricity.
- Battery - v. t. - A number of similar machines or devices in position; an apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts; as, a battery of boilers, of retorts, condensers, etc.
- Battery - v. t. - A series of stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals.
- Battery - v. t. - The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down.
- Battery - v. t. - The pitcher and catcher together.
- Cathode - n. - The part of a voltaic battery by which the electric current leaves substances through which it passes, or the surface at which the electric current passes out of the electrolyte; the negative pole; -- opposed to anode.
- Frigate - n. - Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vessels, and by 1750 it had been appropriated for a class of war vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line. Frigates, from about 1750 to 1850, had one full battery deck and, often, a spar deck with a lighter battery. They carried sometimes as many as fifty guns. After the application of steam to navigation steam frigates of largely increased size and power were built, and formed the main part of the navies of the world till about 1870, when the introduction of ironclads superseded them.
- Voltaplast - n. - A form of voltaic, or galvanic, battery suitable for use electrotyping.
- Relay - n. - In various forms of telegraphic apparatus, a magnet which receives the circuit current, and is caused by it to bring into into action the power of a local battery for performing the work of making the record; also, a similar device by which the current in one circuit is made to open or close another circuit in which a current is passing.
- Piece - n. - A musket, gun, or cannon; as, a battery of six pieces; a following piece.
- Galley - n. - An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.
- Short-circuit - v. t. - To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance.
- Accumulator - n. - An apparatus by means of which energy or power can be stored, such as the cylinder or tank for storing water for hydraulic elevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc.
- Deflagrator - n. - A form of the voltaic battery having large plates, used for producing rapid and powerful combustion.
- Water battery - - A battery nearly on a level with the water.
- Water battery - - A voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is water.
- Open - v. i. - To begin; to commence; as, the stock opened at par; the battery opened upon the enemy.
- Hydro-electric - a. - Pertaining to, employed in, or produced by, the evolution of electricity by means of a battery in which water or steam is used.
- Battery - v. t. - A company or division of artillery, including the gunners, guns, horses, and all equipments. In the United States, a battery of flying artillery consists usually of six guns.
- Battery - v. t. - A number of similar machines or devices in position; an apparatus consisting of a set of similar parts; as, a battery of boilers, of retorts, condensers, etc.
- Observatory - n. - A lookout on a flank of a battery whence an officer can note the range and effect of the fire.