See battle.

noun. plural At the university of Oxford in England: College accounts for board and provisions supplied from the kitchen and buttery.

noun. The whole of the college accounts for board and lodgings, rates, tuition, and contributions to various funds.

noun. At Eton college, a small allowance of food which, in addition to the college allowance, the collegers receive from their dames.

See battle.

See battle.

To stand indebted in the college-books at Oxford for provisions and drink from the buttery.

noun. A single combat. See Wager of battel, under wager.

noun. Provisions ordered from the buttery; also, the charges for them; -- only in the pl., except when used adjectively.

transitive verb. To make fertile.

intransitive verb. To be supplied with provisions from the buttery.

adjective. Fertile; fruitful; productive.

adjective. fertile; fruitful; productive

"Many men "battel" at the rate of a guinea a week: I did so for years: that is, at the rate of three shillings a day for everything connected with meals, excepting only tea, sugar, milk, and wine."

Barr  Han  Saul  betwen  brightnesse  

fertile  fruitful  productive  

wager