bating

Of the moon, when it is waning.

Adjective

  1. Of the moon, when it is waning.

Forms

more bating most bating

Preposition

  1. Apart from; except.
    • [A]nd bating a little wilfulness, and a little selfishness, and a little dandification, I don’t know a more honest, or loyal, or gentle creature. - 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 54,...
    • ‘The laws of religious society, bating those which are only subservient to the order necessary to their execution, are immutable, not subject to any authority of the society, but only proposed by and within the society,...
    • I replied, That he was a very unworthy man, if it were true, to speak slightingly of a family, which was as good as his own, bating that it was not allied to the peerage […]. - 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXXIX”,...

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of bate