Batten: alternatives and connections

Abundant; copious; plenteous; hence, wealthy; abounding in goods or riches.

To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the m…

Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests.

The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds.

One of several species of tropical birds, of the Old World, of the genus Pitta, somewhat resembling the thrushes, and feeding chiefly…

Feeding on human flesh; cannibal.

Feeding upon aphides, or plant lice, as do beetles of the family Coccinellidae.

An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from ce…

Feeding on frogs.

The root of plants of the genus Beta, different species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making…

Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds.

The American woodcock; -- so called from its feeding among the bogs.

A mouse (Arvicala agrestis), called also meadow mouse, which often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and se…

Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to p…

Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding on carrion.

Feeding upon onions.

The process or operation of feeding the contents of the crucible with fresh material.

A building or apartment for silkworms, when feeding and forming cocoons.