basttree (basttre)

[ME. baste - tre; a rampart, of principal part. A bastion consists of two flanks, each basylous (bā'si-lus), a. [ A , Bastion. a , a , curtain-angles; b, b , shoulder-angles; c, salient angle; a b , a b , flanks; bc , bc, faces; a a , gorge; ad , ad , parts of curtains. commanding and defending the adja- cent curtain , or that portion of the wall extending from one bastion to another, and two faces making with each other an acute angle called the salient angle , and commanding The name of the electro-negative ingredient... being that which is placed first as the generic term, whilst that of the electro-positive or basylous element follows as indicating the species. W. A. Miller , Elem. of Chem., § 331. bat