bask1 (bask)

[ Basked and baththed in their wylde burblyng. blode. Skelton , Works, I. 209. (N. E. D. ) 2. To lie in or be exposed to a pleasant warmth; luxuriate in the genial heat or rays of anything: as, to bask in the sunshine. She desires no isles of the blest, no quiet seats of the just, To rest in a golden grove, or to bask in a summer sky. Tennyson, Wages. 3. Figuratively, to be at ease and thriving under benign or gratifying influences: as, to bask in the favor of a king or of one's lady-love. Merely to bask and ripen is sometimes The student's wiser busine . Lowell , Under the Willows, II. trans. To expose to genial warmth; suffuse with agreeable heat. As I do live by food, I met a fool, Who laid him down, and bask'd him in the sun, And rail'd on lady Fortune. Shak., As you Like it, ii. 7. Milton , L'Allegro, 1. 112. bask1 (båsk), n. [ bask1 , v.] Emitted warmth; a genial radiation or suffusion. [Rare.] Basks at the fire his hairy strength. Milton and La Fontaine did not write in the bask of court favor. I. D'Israeli , Calam. of Auth., I. 78.