bastinado, bastinade

t. [In Fr. bastonner; Port, bastonar; Ital. bast on are.) [BASTINADO, s.] 1. Gen. To beat with a stick. "Nick seized the longer end of the cudgel, and with it began to bastinado old Lewis, who who had had slur slunk into a corner waiting the event of a squabble "-Arbuthnot. 2. Spec.: To do so on the soles of the feet. "The Sallee rover, who threatened to bastinado a Christian captive to death unle a ransom was forth- coming, was an odious ruffian." - Macaulay: Hist. of Eng . , ch. xv. bāst'-ing (1), pr . par ., a., & 8. [BASTE, v . (1).] A. & B. As pr . par . & particip, adjective: In senses corresponding to those of the verb. C. As substantive: " Bastings heavy, dry, obtuse, Only dulne can produce."- Swift . IMG:content-1106.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1107.png:[blocks in formation] băs - ti - oned, a. [Eng., ., bastion; -ed.] Furnished with bastions. "To try at length, if tower and battlement And bastioned wall be not le hard to win." Moore: Veiled Prophet of Khor as san băs'-tīte, s. [In Ger. bast it . From Baste , in the Harz Mountains, where it was first dis- covered.] A mineral, called also Schiller Spar . It is an impure foliated serpentine. Its hard- ne is 3-5-4; its spec. gravity 2-5-2-76; its lustre like that of bronze, whence the name Schiller in Ger. of shining lustre. Com- position: Silica, 42 36 to 43-90; alumina, 1-50 to 6-10; magnesia, 26:00 to 30.92; protoxide of iron, 7-14 to 10.78; lime, 0.63 to 270; oxide of chrominm, 0-2-37; protoxide of manganese, 0-85; pota a or soda, 0-279; water, 8:51 to 12.42. Phæstine (q.v.) is an allied mineral. ( Dana . ) băst-mat, s. [In Sw. bast matt a .] The same as BAST (1), s. (q.v.). bast'-na-sīte, s. [From Bastnäs , in Sweden.] A mineral, the same as Hamartite (q.v.). bas-to, s. [In Dan. & Dut. basta ; Ger. & Fr. baste ; Sp. bastos (pl.); Port, basto ; Ital. basto =(1) a pack-saddle, (2) the ace of clubs.] The ace of clubs at quadrille and ombre. ( Pope .) băstổn, bạ-tôon ( Eng . ), băs-tôun (Scotch), s. [O. Fr. & Sp. bast on ; Mod: Fr. bâton; Port. bastao ; Ital. bastone ; Low Lat. basto.] [BATON.] A. Ordinary Language: A heavy staff, a baton (q.v.). Or like ane douchty campioun in to fycht With bustuous bastoun darren stryffe, or mais." Douglas : Virgil , 129, 39. (Jamie son.) B. Technically : Still so used in many English dialects. "The while he spake, lo, Judas, oon of the twelve came, and with him a greet company with swerdis and batt is."- Wickliffe : Matt . xxvi. 47. "But soon discovered by a sturdy clown, He headed all the rabble of a town, And finished them with bats or polled them down." Dryden: Hind & Panther , iii. 629-31., stanza.) "Nis this bastun wel ifught." Harleian MS., 913. (S. in Boucher.) "It is ordained that no Warden of the Fleet shall suffer any prisoner to go out of prison by main- prise, baile, nor by bast on . "-Act 1 Richard II. xii. * băs-tồn, v.t. [BASTON, S.] To beat or thrash with a stick or staff; to cudgel. "I wold try on the fleysh of him, or buy a bastoned gown of him."- Dee : Diary , p. 48. ( N.E.D. ) * băs-ton-ět, s. [O. Fr. = little stick, dim in. of bast on = a stick.] A kind of bit, now obsolete. "I have seen some horsemen use the bit which we call the bastonet."- Markham : Cavel a rice , ii. 59. băs-ton-īte, s. [From Bastoigne , in Luxem- burg, where it was found.] A mineral, a greenish-brown mica, in large foliated plates. It is a variety of Lepidomelane (q. v.). băs'-ýle (or bā-syle), s . [Gr. βάσις ( basis ) a base, and ὕλη ( hule ) = a wood. ( Chem . ) a base, a principle.] băs-yl-ous (or bā-syl-ous), a . [Eng. ba- syl(e); -ous.] Pertaining to basyle; of the nature of basyle. ( Graham . ) bắt (1), * batte (pl. * bắt-tis), s. [Fr. batte = a beater, battledore,. a rammer, a ham- mer, .; bâton = a baton, a stick, a staff; Ir. bat , bat a = a stick, a staff; Ru , bot ; Fr. bâton. Connected with Fr. battre ; Prov. batre; Sp. batir ; Port. bater; Icel. battere; Lat. battuo to beat. The original root of these verbs, as well as of the allied substantive bat is, without doubt, imitated from the sound of beating.] [BEAT.]