NOUN
- small genus of plants constituting the family Batidaceae: low straggling dioecious shrubs
How To Use Batis In A Sentence
- A large number of sermons and pious treatises were also written in Latin during this period, by Aelred of Rievaulx for example, and by others: "Beati Ailredi Rievallis abbatis Sermones" (and other works) in Migne's "Patrologia," vols.xxxii. and cxcv. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
- Union soldiers completed digging a series of ditches that zigzagged forward and reached the abatis.
- It was a combination of towers, palisades, ditches, abatis, and caltrops to slow the attacking Gauls.
- Because his white batiste handkerchief was hope and fear. Herta Müller - Nobel Lecture
- A sabbath of sabbatism, so others read it, being typical of that sabbatism or rest, both spiritual and eternal, which remains for the people of God, Heb. iv. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)
- The clothing included a black-and-cream herringbone tweed blazer with purple-and- gold piping, a heritage white batiste lace-trimmed blouse, and a cedar mélange shawl collar button front cardigan, as listed on the line sheet provided for the young'uns in the front row. Tweens Take the Runway
- Mr. Batiste made an unexpected entrance at about 10:30 p.m., striding in from the back of Dizzy's, leading his sextet to the stage as he chanted and played the melodica, a mouth-blown, hand-held mini-keyboard. Passing Down the Piano Torch Song
- Wilhelmi abbatis gestorum liber", the life of his superior at Dijon, printed in Acta SS., The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
- RIO DE JANEIRO—Billionaire Brazilian businessman Eike Batista , the Latin American country's wealthiest man, increased his stake in independent driller OGX Petroleo e Gas Participacoes SA, the company said in a regulatory filing late Monday. Batista Lifts Stake in Oil Company OGX
- I bought the most lovely soft, pink, floral cotton for the body of the dress and white batiste for the collar. The Beautiful, Soft, Flowing, Modest, Clothing Depicted in the Art of Alfred Emile Leopold Stevens (1823-1906)