strife; contention.-to lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.-to allow by way of abatement or deduction.-to leave out; to except.-to remove.-to deprive of.-to remit or retrench a part; -- with of.-to waste away.-to attack; to bait.-imp. of bite.-to flutter as a hawk; to bait.-see 2d bath.-an alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer.-to steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.