Cotgrave says, "To _battle_ (as scholars do in Oxford) être debteur an collège pour ses vivres." He adds, "Mot usé seulement des jeunes écoliers de l'université d'Oxford." 2. To reside at the university; to keep terms.--_Webster_. BATTEL. Derived from the old monkish word _patella_, or _batella_, a plate. At Oxford, "whatsoever is furnished for dinner and for supper, including malt liquor, but not wine, as well as the materials for breakfast, or for any casual refreshment to country visitors, excepting only groceries," is expressed by the word _battels_.--_De Quincey_. I on the nail my _Battels_ paid, The monster turn'd away dismay'd. _The Student_, Vol. I. p. 115, 1750. BATTELER, BATTLER. A student at Oxford who stands indebted, in the college books, for provisions and drink at the buttery.--_Webster_. Halliwell, in his Dict. Arch. and Prov. Words, says, "The term is used in contradistinction to gentleman commoner." In _Gent. Mag._, 1787, p. 1146, is the following:--"There was formerly at Oxford an order similar to the sizars of Cambridge, called _battelers_ (_batteling_ having the same signification as sizing). The _sizar_ and _batteler_ were as independent as any other members of the college, though of an inferior order, and were under no obligation to wait upon anybody." 2. One who keeps terms, or resides at the University.--_Webster_. BATTELING. At Oxford, the act of taking provisions from the buttery. Batteling has the same signification as SIZING at the University of Cambridge.--_Gent. Mag._, 1787, p. 1146. _Batteling in a friend's name_, implies eating and drinking at his expense. When a person's name is _crossed in the buttery_, i.e. when he is not allowed to take any articles thence, he usually comes into the hall and battels for buttery supplies in a friend's name, "for," says the Collegian's Guide, "every man can 'take out' an extra commons, and some colleges two, at each meal, for a visitor: and thus, under the name of a guest, though at your own table, you escape part of the punishment of being crossed."--p. 158. 2. Spending money. The business of the latter was to call us of a morning, to distribute among us our _battlings_, or pocket money, &c.--_Dicken's Household Words_, Vol. I. p. 188. BAUM. At Hamilton College, to fawn upon; to flatter; to court the favor of any one. B.C.L. Abbreviated for _Baccalaureus Civilis Legis_, Bachelor in Civil Law. In the University of Oxford, a Bachelor in Civil Law must be an M.A. and a regent of three years' standing. The exercises necessary to the degree are disputations upon two distinct days before the Professors of the Faculty of Law.