Baiting

The act of furnishing a bait; a refreshment on a journey. Bait'ing Hollow, in New York , a post-village of Suffolk co., 221 m. S.S.E. of Albany. Bai'tool, a fortified town and district of British India, presid. of Bengal, 50 m. from Ellichpoor. Area of district, 4,000 sq. m. Pop . in 1897 (est.) 300,000. Baize, ( bāz , ) n . [Sp. bajeta , probably from Baiæ , where it was first made. A coarse woollen stuff, with a long nap. It is sometimes frizzed on one side. It is without wale and is wrought on a loom, like flannel. Baja, ( ba'zha ,) or Bas, a town of Hungary, co. Bacs, near the Danube, 20 m. N. by W. of Zambor; pop . 20,087. Bajada-de-Santa-Fé, ( ba - ha'da - dai - san'ta - fa ',) a town of the Argentine Republic, on the E. bank of the Parana, opposite Santa Fé; pop . about 7,000. Baj'adere, n. See BAYADERE. Bajazet, or BAYAZEED I., ( bi - ah - zeed ,) an Ottoman Sultan, B. 1347, succeeded his father, Amurath I., in 1389. He was the first of his family who a umed the title of "Sultan." The Turkish empire at this time extended W. from the Euphrates to the shores of Europe, and Amurath had cro ed the Bosphorus, subdued the greater part of Thrace, and fixed the seat of his power at Adrianople. B. wrested the N. parts of Asia Minor from the dominion of various Turkish emirs whose power had long been established there. In Europe he conquered Macedonia and The aly, and invaded Moldavia and Hungary. Sigismund, king of the latter country, met him at the head of 100,000 men, including the flower of the chivalry of France and Germany, but was totally defeated at Nicopoli, on the Danube, 28th Sept., 1396. B. is said to have boasted, on the occasion of this victory, that he would feed his horse on the altar of St. Peter at Rome. His progre , however, was arrested by a violent attack of the gout. B. was preparing for an attack on Constantinople, when he was interrupted by the approach of Timour the Great, by whom he was defeated at Angora, in Anatolia, 28th July, 1402. He was taken captive, and died about 9 months afterwards, at Antioch in Pisidia. He was succeeded by Mohammed I. Modern writers reject as a fiction the story of the iron cage in which B. was said to have been imprisoned. B. was surnamed Ilderim or "The Lightning;" an epithet acquired from the fiery energy of his soul, and the rapidity of his destructive march. He was succeeded by his son Soliman I. BAJAZET II., Sultan of the Turks. He succeeded his father, Mohammed II., in 1481. His brother Zizim contested the empire with him, a isted by Caith Bey, sultan of the Egyptian Mamelukes, but was compelled to retreat into Italy, where he died in 1495. B. undertook an expedition against Caith Bey, but was defeated, with great lo , near Mount Taurus in Cilicia, in 1489. He was more fortunate in Europe, where, in the same year, his generals conquered Croatia and Bosnia. B. was engaged in long and bloody hostilities with the Mold avians, the Rhodians, and especially the Venetians, who frequently invaded the S. of Greece; and with Ismael, king of Persia. At home, he had to contend against his rebellious son Selim, to whom, at last, he resigned the empire. He died in 1512, on his way to the place which he had chosen for his re tirement. It has been supposed that he was put to death by the order of his son. He was a man of uncommon talents, and did much for the improvement of his empire, and the promotion of the sciences. Bajocco, ( ba - yok'ko ,) n. [It., from bajo , brown, bay, from its color.] ( Com .) A copper coin in the Papal States. It is the one hundredth part of a scudo , and its value is about 11⁄2 cent. ( pl . BAJOCCHI.) Bajour, ( ba - joor ' ,) a territory of N. Afghanistan. Area , estimated at 370 sq. m. Desc. Fertile, surrounded by mountains, clothed with forests of cedar and oak. Its chief town is called Bajour, and is supposed to be the Bazira of the historian of Alexander the Great. Pop . 120,000. Bake, v . a. [A. S. bac an; Icel. baka , to warm; Scots, beik.] To heat, dry, and harden by fire or the sun's rays: as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the clay. Specifically , to dre and prepare for food in an oven or heated place as, to bake a loaf. "The sun with flaming arrows piere'd the flood, And, darting to the bottom, bak'd the mud."-Dryden. -To harden by cold. "The earth.... is baked with frost."-Shaks. -v. i. To do the work of baking. "I keep his house, and I wash, wring, brew, bake ."-Shaks. -To be baked; to dry and harden in heat; as, the earth bakes in the burning sun. Baked, ( bākt,) p. a. Dried or hardened by heat; cooked by heat.