bastile, bastille (bastel)

t.; pret. and pp. bastiled or bastilled, ppr. bastiling or bas tilling. [ [ IMG:content-1739.png:[blocks in formation] Then the basti mentos never Had our foul dishonour seen, Nor the sea the sad receiver Of this gallant train had been. Glover , Hosier's Ghost, st. 7. bastinade (bas-ti-nad'), n. and v. Same as bastinado . [Formerly also bastinado (bas-ti-nā'dō), п. bast on a do ( -ada, -ade ) = F. bastonnade, He brags he will gi' me the bastinado , as I hear. - How? he the bastinado ? How came he by that word, trow? Nay, indeed, he said cudgel me; I termed it so for my more grace. B. Jonson. 2. A mode of punishment in some Oriental countries, especially Turkey, Persia, and China, in which blows with a stick or lath of bamboo are inflicted on the soles of the feet or on the buttocks.-3. A stick or cudgel; the implement used in administering the bastinado. basylous the outworks and ground before the fortification. The. inner space between the two flanks is the gorge, or entrance into the bastion. The use of the bastion is to bring every point at the foot of the rampart as much as po ible under the guns of the place. Formerly called bulwark. And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire. Tennyson, In Memoriam, xv. To our right was a long embattled line, with many a bastion square and round. O'Donovan, Merv, xviii. Center of a bastion, a point at the middle of the gorge, whence the capital line proceeds. It is in general at the angle of the inner polygon. - Detached bastion, in fort., a bastion which is separated from the enceinte by a ditch. Farrow, Mil. Encyc. [ bastion ary (bas'tion-a-ri), a. -ary1.] Pertaining to or consisting of bastions: as, systems of bastion ary fortification. bastioned (bas'tiond), a. [ IMG:content-1740.png:[blocks in formation] Bastioned fort, a fort having two or more bastions connected by curtains: a term commonly restricted to fieldworks. Bastioned front. See front.