also 6 baiting. [absolute use of pr. pple. of BATE v.2 7; cf. similar use of barring, excepting.] Abating, leaving out of account, excepting, except. † Bating of: less than.
1568. C. Watson, Polyb., 73 b. Another tyme [they fought] with few baiting of seven hundreth.
1647. R. Stapylton, Juvenal, ii. 182. Nobler then … all that from the scaffolds saw the sport He made, not bating him that paid him for’t.
1721. Wodrow Corr. (1843), II. 594. Bating this, I know nothing to the youth’s disadvantage.
1817. Byron, Beppo, v. For, bating Covent Garden, I can hit on No place that ’s call’d ‘Piazza’ in Great Britain.
