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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Baton \Bat"on\ (b[a^]t"[u^]n, F. b[aum]'t[^o]N"; 277), noun [F. b[^a]ton. See {Baston}.]
1. A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances.
He held the baton of command. --Prescott.
2. (Her.) An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also {bastard bar}. See {Bend sinister}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
baton
noun
1: a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to direct an orchestra
2: an implement passed from runner to runner in a relay race
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
227 Moby Thesaurus words for "baton": Malacca cane, achievement, alerion, alpenstock, animal charge, annulet, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, aspersion, attaint, azure, badge, badge of infamy, badge of office, badges, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, bastardism, bastardy, bat, bearings, bend, bend sinister, billet, billy, billy club, black eye, black mark, blazon, blazonry, blot, bludgeon, blur, bordure, brand, brassard, broad arrow, button, cadency mark, caduceus, cane, canton, cap and gown, censure, chain, chain of office, champain, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, class ring, club, coat of arms, cockade, cockatrice, collar, coronet, crescent, crest, crook, crosier, cross, cross moline, cross-staff, crown, crutch, crutch-stick, decoration, device, diapason, difference, differencing, disparagement, dress, eagle, emblems, ensigns, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, falcon, fasces, fess, fess point, field, figurehead, file, flanch, fleur-de-lis, fret, fur, fusil, garland, gavel, griffin, gules, gyron, hammer and sickle, handstaff, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, heraldry, honor point, illegitimacy, illegitimateness, impalement, impaling, imputation, inescutcheon, insignia, label, lapel pin, lion, lituus, livery, lozenge, mace, mantle, mantling, mark of Cain, markings, marshaling, martlet, mascle, medal, metal, metronome, monochord, mortarboard, motto, mullet, music stand, mute, nightstick, nombril point, octofoil, old school tie, onus, or, ordinary, orle, pale, paly, pastoral staff, paterissa, pean, pheon, pillorying, pin, pitch pipe, point champain, portfolio, purpure, quarter, quartering, quarterstaff, reflection, regalia, reprimand, reproach, rhythmometer, ring, rod, rod of office, rose, sable, saltire, scepter, school ring, scutcheon, shamrock, shield, shillelagh, sigillography, skull and crossbones, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, sonometer, sphragistics, spot, spread eagle, staff, stain, stave, stick, stigma, stigmatism, stigmatization, subordinary, swagger stick, swanking stick, swastika, taint, tarnish, tartan, tenne, thistle, tie, tincture, tone measurer, torse, tressure, truncheon, tuning bar, tuning fork, tuning pipe, unicorn, uniform, vair, verge, vert, walking stick, wand, wand of office, war club, wreath, yale
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