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Batawi or Batavia,, the Capital of the Dutch possesions in India, situated on the island 

 of Java in the Sunda districts, and founded A.D. 1619 at the aneient Jakatra. 



Bati, profit, gain-maybe derived from Bhataka , C. 491, wages , hire, price. 



Batik, a particular method of dying Cotton cloths , the pattern being first traced with 

 liquid wax and the cloth then dipped in the dye stuft; the places under the wax are 

 not dyed, and when the wax is subsequently removed, the pattern becomes visible. 

 Pattern, design. 



Ba tin, ar: hidden , occult, interier, ulterior- the future, what is not yet known. Inward 

 thoughts , what we ourselves only can know. 



Bat ing, no, not all, none at all, oh never! 



Ba tok, the shell of a Cocoanut. Babatok, the skull. 



B a f u , a stone , a rock. Batu asalian , a whetstone ; Batu uji , a touchstone ; Batu bata , 

 a brick; Batu riyeus or Batu giling, a ftatstone for rubbing down any vegetable mat- 

 ter to a pulp , see Pangriyëusan. Batu Barani , the loadstone perhaps from Bharanti- 

 ya C. 502, Avhirling, going round, revolving (as a compass does). 



B a t u k , a cough , to cough. 



Batur, a companion, a fellow in labour, in play etc. Batur is in very extensive use, and 

 means generally-other people , our companions or neighbours; aneighbour, a person in 

 same circumstances as ourselves. Beunang batur , my neighbour got it. 



Baturan, to keep Company with, to keep in Company , to associate 



Bau, smell, odour, scent. Smell or stink. Bau na seungit , the smell is sweet. Bau na 

 busuk, the smell is stinking. 



Bauh or Ba hu, a measure of land, of which four make one Jung. Bahu, C. 470 the 

 arm. The Bauh recognized by government on Java contains 500 square Bhine- 

 lands roods or Tumbaks ofeach 12 x 12 t=: 1 44 square Rhineland feet t=: 72 000 square 

 Rhineland feet. Now as 0.94310 Rh: feet^ 1 Eng: 72.000 or 1 Bauh ^76344 

 square English feet per Bauh, or a trifle more than l*- English acre of each 43.360 

 English square feet. 



Bauh, the fifth in descent, the father counting first; and the terms for each relation ship 

 are thus expressed ; Bapa, Anak, Incliu , Buyut , Changgah or Chénggëli and Waréng. 

 These four last terms appear to be inversely used, thus the Bapa will call the 14 th ge- 

 neration from himself, his Bauh, and that same Bauh will allude to the same Bapa 

 as his Bauh. These lines complete seven generations, which the natives designate as 

 tujuh turunan , and which in general is considered very aneient , and when property 

 is at stake, if it has been in the family for seven generations, it amounts to what we 

 call prescrijytion. 



Bauk, whiskers , hair on the cheeks. 



Baur or Bawur, mixed, blended, intermingled. 



Bau r ken, to mingle, to blend. 



