Part 945

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Bastardly</h1> <Xpage=123>

<hw>Bas"tard*ly</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Bastardlike; baseborn; spuripous; corrupt.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> -- <def2><tt>adv.</tt> <def>In the manner of a bastard; spuriously.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark></def2>

<i>Shak. Donne.</i>

<h1>Bastardy</h1> <Xpage=123>

<hw>Bas"tar*dy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy.

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The procreation of a bastard child.</def>

<i>Wharton.</i>

<h1>Baste</h1> <Xpage=123>

<hw>Baste</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Basted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Basting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. Icel. <ets>beysta</ets> to strike, powder; Sw. <ets>basa</ets> to beat with a rod: perh. akin to E. <ets>beat</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To beat with a stick; to cudgel.</def>

<blockquote>One man was <b>basted</b> by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters. <i>Pepys.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Cookery)</fld> <def>To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To mark with tar, as sheep.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<h1>Baste</h1> <Xpage=123>

<hw>Baste</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>basten</ets>, OF. <ets>bastir</ets>, F. <ets>b<?/tir</ets>, prob. fr. OHG. <ets>bestan</ets> to sew, MHG. <ets>besten</ets> to bind, fr. OHG. <ets>bast</ets> bast. See <er>Bast</er>.]</ety> <def>To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Bastile Bastille</h1> <Xpage=123>

<hw><hw>Bas*tile" Bas*tille"</hw><hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>bastille</ets> fortress, OF. <ets>bastir</ets> to build, F. <ets>b<?/tir</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Feud. Fort.)</fld> <def>A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place.</def>

<blockquote>The high <b>bastiles</b> . . . which overtopped the walls. <i>Holland.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>"The Bastille", formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison.</def>

<h1>Bastinade</h1> <Xpage=123>

<hw>Bas`ti*nade"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Bastinado</er>, <tt>n.</tt></def>

<h1>Bastinade</h1> <Xpage=123>

<hw>Bas`ti*nade"</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To bastinado.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<h1>Bastinado</h1> <Xpage=123>

<hw>Bas`ti*na"do</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Bastinadoes</plw> <tt>(#)</tt>.</plu> <ety>[Sp. <ets>bastonada</ets> (cf. F. <ets>bastonnade</ets>), fr. <ets>baston</ets> (cf. F. <ets>b<?/ton</ets>) a stick or staff. See <er>Baston</er>.]</ety>