English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Bastinade
(n.)
See Bastinado, n.
Bastinade
(v. t.)
To bastinado.
Bastinado
(n.)
A blow with a stick or cudgel.
Bastinado
(n.)
A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A
form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in
beating an offender on the soles of his feet.
Bastinado
(v. t.)
To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the
soles of the feet.
Bastinadoes
(pl. )
of Bastinado
Bastinadoes
(imp. & p. p.)
of Bastinado
Bastinadoing
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Bastinado
Basting
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Baste
Bastion
(n.)
A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a
fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so
constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent
curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two
adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank
of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the
flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached
bastion. See Ravelin.
Bastioned
(a.)
Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
Basto
(n.)
The ace of clubs in quadrille and omber.
Baston
(n.)
A staff or cudgel.
Baston
(n.)
See Baton.
Baston
(n.)
An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in
attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed
by the court.
Basyle
(n.)
A positive or nonacid constituent of compound, either
elementary, or, if compound, performing the functions of an element.
Basylous
(a.)
Pertaining to, or having the nature of, a basyle;
electro-positive; basic; -- opposed to chlorous.
Bat
(v. i.)
To use a bat, as in a game of baseball.
Bat
(v. t.)
To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.
Bat
(n.)
A part of a brick with one whole end.