baste (1), bast, baast

[O. Fr. bast = a packsaddle used by muleteers as a bed in inns.] 1. Fornication or adultery. "For he was bigeten o baste, God it wot.' Artour & Merlin, 7,643. ( N.E.D. ) 2. Illegitimacy. "Baast, not wedlock, bastard i a..."- Prompt Parv. baste (2), s . [BASE (1), A., II. 10.] baste (1) ( Eng . ), bāst ( Scotch ), v.t. [In Icel. beysta to strike, to powder; Sw. bösta = to baste, to whip, to flog, to beat, to lash; Fr. bastonner = to cudgel, to bastinado; Sp. bas tear; Port. bastonar; Ital. bast on are. From O. Fr., Sp., & Prov. bast on ; Mod. Fr. bâton; Ital. bastone = a staff, a stick. Compare also Dan. baske to beat, strike, cudgel; bask = a stripe, a blow.] [BASTINADO.] 1. To beat with a cudgel. "Quoth she, I grant it is in vain For one that's basted to feel pain; Because the pangs his bones endure Contribute nothing to the cure."- Hudibrus . 2. To drip fat or anything similar on meat when it is turning on the spit or roasting jack to be roasted; to soften by means of such fat. "The fat of roasted mutton falling on the birds will serve to baste them, and so save time and butter." Swift . baste (2) ( Eng .), bāi ( Scotch ), v.t. [From O. Fr. bastir ; Mod. Fr. bâtir = to build,... to baste; Sp. bastear , embastar; Ital. imbas tire to sew with long stitches; from basta = a long stitch. Compare Dan. besye = to sew, to stitch, to embroider; M. H. Ger. best an =to sew.] To sew slightly, with the view of holding the portions of a dre in their proper place till they can be sewed more thoroughly. (Lit. & fig .) "The body of your discourse is sometimes guarded with fragments, and the guards are but slightly basted on neither."-Shakesp. Much Ado , i. 1. bā'st-ěd (1) ( Eng. ), * bāst (O. Scotch), pa, par. & a. [BASTE (1).] bā'st-ěd (2), *bā'st-en, pa. par. & a. [BASTE (2).] * bā'st-en, pa. par. [Ger. basten.] [BASTE (1).] * bā'st-er, s. [Eng. bast (e); -er.] A blow with a stick or similar weapon. ( Todd.) IMG:content-1104.jpg:[blocks in formation] 457 * băs-tide', s. [O. Fr.) A place of defence; a fortre . Băs'-tille, * băs'-tile, * băs-tylle (ylle as îl), * băs'-těll, * băs'-těl, băs-tî'li-ạn, * băs-til-li-ôn ( Eng . ) , * bas'-tailyie (0. Scotch ), s. [O. Fr. bastille = a fastne , a castle furnished with towers; from bastir , Mod. Fr. bâtir = to build. In Port. bastilha : Low Lat. bastellum , bastile , bastilia , basti a .] I. Generally : *1. Originally: A temporary wooden tower on wheels, constructed to enable besiegers safely to approach a town or fort which they designed to attack. "They had also towres of tymber goyng on wheles, that we clepe bastiles or somer castelles, and, shortly, alle thinges that nedfulle was in eny maner kynde of werres the legion had it." Trevis a: Vegecius , MS . Reg . 18, A. xii., ii. 2. (S. in Boucher .) 2. Later : A small antique castle fortified with turrets, a blockhouse; also the turrets, bulwarks, or other defences of such a structure. "Sone efter he gat syndry craft is men to clenge the fowseis and to repair the said wall in all partis with tour is and bastailyies , rysyng in the strangest maner that mycht be deuisit."-Bellend. Cron . , bk. v., c. 9 II. Spec. (of the form Bastille): The celebrated Paris i an state-prison and fortre called by way of pre-eminence the Bastille. It was commenced in 1370 by order of Charles V. of France, and was finished in 1382 under his IMG:content-1105.jpg:[graphic][merged small][merged small] It was captured by them on the 14th of July, 1789, and soon afterwards demolished. None of the governments which have since succeeded to power in France have ever proposed its restoration. "For lo! the dread Bastille, With all the chambers in its horrid towers, Fell to the ground, by violence o'erthrown Of indignation Words worth: Excursion, bk. iii. * bastell-howse, * bastell-house, s. The same as BASTILLE, I. 2. "And they burnte a stead called Farnelay, and won a bastell- howse in the same."- MS . Cott. Calig ., bk. v., 1. 28. (S. in Boucher.) * băs'-ti-měnt, * băs-ti-měn'-tō, s . [From Ital. basti men to = a ship, a ve el; but in Sp. = victuals, provision; and in O. Fr. = a building.] A ship, a ve el, . "Then the basti mentos never Had our foul dishonour seen, Nor the sen the sad receiver Of this gallant train had been." Glover: Hosier's Ghost, st. 7. băs-ti-nā-dō, băs-ti-nā'de, s. [In Sw. bastonad; Dan., Ger., & Fr. bastonnade ; Dut. bastinade ; Sp. bastonazo , bastonada ; Prov. & Sp. bastonada ; Ital. bast on at a . From O. Fr., Sp., & Prov. bast on; Mod. Fr. bâton ; Ital. bastone a staff, a stick.] [BASTINADO, v., BASTE, v. (1), BASTON, BAΤΟΝ.] 1. Gen.: A cudgelling, a beating inflicted with a stick. "And all those harsh and rugged sounds Of bast in ados, cuts, and wounds." -Hudibras . 2. Spec.: One administered with a stick on the soles of the feet, as is usually done in the Turkish empire and in China.