Basting

A dripping; as, "a basting of meat." Act of beating with a stick.- Act of sewing with long stitches. Bas'tinville, în Tenne ee , a village of Hickman co. Bas'tion, n. [Fr.; Sp. bastion , from Fr. bâtir , for bas tir , to build, to erect, to rear.] ( Fort .) A large ma of earth or masonry raised up before, or standing out from, a rampart; a bulwark. - It is formed of two faces, two IMG:content-0548.jpg:[graphic][merged small] flanks, and two dem i-gorges. The junction of the two faces forms the salient angle of the B. , and the faces, together with the flanks, form the épaules , or shoulders. They are made of various kinds, - solid, hollow, regular, . Solid bastions are entirely filled up with earth up to the level of the platform of the guns, while hollow bastions have the interior level with the ordinary ground. Regular bastions are those which have their faces, flanks, ., in due proportion. A dem i-bastion, or épaulement , has only one face and one flank. A double bastion is where one bastion is raised within and upon the plane of another bastion. A flat bastion is one built in the middle of the curtain or wall connecting the two angles of a rampart. A composed bastion is one in which the sides of the interior polygon are unequal; thus making the gorges also unequal. A bastion is called deformed or irregular, when the faces, flanks, . are not in symmetrical proportion; and a cut bastion, or bastion with a tenaille, is one whose salient angle has been cut off, and has, instead, an angle opening inwards, with two points outward. Bas'tioned, a. Fortified with a bastion; provided with bastions.