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BARTERER — BATH NWAD BARTERER.1

BARTERER, n. One who trafficks by exchange of commodities. NWAD BARTERER.1

BARTERING, ppr. Trafficking or trading by an exchange of commodities. NWAD BARTERING.1

BARTERY, n. Exchange of commodities in trade. [Not used.] NWAD BARTERY.1

BARTON, n. The demain lands of a manor; the manor itself; and sometimes the out-houses. NWAD BARTON.1

BARTRAM, n. [L. pyrethrum.] A plant; pellitory. NWAD BARTRAM.1

BARYSTRONTIANITE, n. [Gr. heavy and strontian.] A mineral, called also stromnite, from Stromness, in Orkney. It has been found in masses of a grayish white color internally, but externally of a yellowish white. NWAD BARYSTRONTIANITE.1

BARYTA, BARYTE, n. [Gr. heavy; weight.] Ponderous earth; so called from its great weight, it being the heaviest of the earths. Spec. grav. about 4. Recent discoveries have shown that baryte is an oxyd, the basis of which is a metallic substance called barium. It is generally found in combination with the sulphuric and carbonic acids, forming the sulphate and carbonate of baryte, the former of which is called heavy spar. NWAD BARYTA.1

BARYTIC, a. Pertaining to baryte; formed of baryte, or containing it. NWAD BARYTIC.1

BARYTO-CALCITE, n. [baryte and calx. See Cals.] NWAD BARYTO-CALCITE.1

A mixture of carbonate of lime with sulphate of baryte, of a dark or light gray color, of various forms. NWAD BARYTO-CALCITE.2

BARYTONE, a. [Gr. heavy, and tone.] Pertaining to or noting a grave deep sound, or male voice. NWAD BARYTONE.1

BARYTONE, n. In music, a male voice, the compass of which partakes of the common base and the tenor, but which does not descend so low as the one, nor rise as high as the other. NWAD BARYTONE.2

2. In Greek Grammar, a verb which has no accent marked on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood. NWAD BARYTONE.3

BASAL, a. Pertaining to the base; constituting the base. NWAD BASAL.1

BASALT, n. bazalt’. [Pliny informs us that the Egyptians found in Ethiopia, a species of marble, called basaltes, of an iron color and hardness, whence it received its name. Nat. Hist. Lib. 36. Ca. 7. But according to Da Costa, that stone was not the same which now bears the name of basalt. Hist. of Fossils. p. 263. If named from its color, it may be allied to the Fr. basane, tawny. Lunier refers it to the Ethiopic basal, iron, a word I cannot find.] NWAD BASALT.1

A dark, grayish black mineral or stone, sometimes bluish or brownish black, and when withered, the surface is grayish or reddish brown. It is amorphous, columnar, tabular or globular. The columnar form is straight or curved, perpendicular or inclined, sometimes nearly horizontal; the diameter of the columns from three inches to three feet, sometimes with transverse semi-spherical joints, in which the convex part of one is inserted in the concavity of another. The forms of the columns generally are pentagonal, hexagonal, or octagonal. It is sometimes found also in rounded masses, either spherical, or compressed and lenticular. These rounded masses are sometimes composed of concentric layers, with a nucleus, and sometimes of prisms radiating from a center. It is heavy and hard. The pillars of the Giant’s causey in Ireland, composed of this stone and exposed to the roughest sea for ages, have their angles as perfect as those at a distance from the waves. The English miners call it cockle; the German, shorl, or shoerl. It is called by Kirwan, Figurate Trap, from its prismatic forms. NWAD BASALT.2

BASALTIC, a. Pertaining to basalt; formed of or containing basalt. NWAD BASALTIC.1

BASALTIFORM, a. In the form of basalt; columnar. NWAD BASALTIFORM.1

BASALTINE, n. Basaltic Hornblend; a variety of common hornblend, so called from its being often found in Basalt. It is also found in lavas and volcanic scoriae. It is generally in distinct crystals, and its color is a pure black, or slightly tinged with green. It is more foliated than the other varieties, and has been mistaken for mica. NWAD BASALTINE.1

2. A column of basalt. NWAD BASALTINE.2

BASANITE, n. [Gr. the trier. Plin. Lib. 36. Ca. 22. See Basalt.] NWAD BASANITE.1

Lydian stone, or black jasper; a variety of siliceous or flinty slate. Its color is a grayish or bluish black, interspersed with veins of quartz. It is employed to test the purity of gold. NWAD BASANITE.2

BASE, a. NWAD BASE.1

1. Low in place. Obs. NWAD BASE.2

2. Mean; vile; worthless; that is, low in value or estimation; used of things. NWAD BASE.3

3. Of low station; of mean account; without rank, dignity or estimation among men; used of persons. NWAD BASE.4

The base shall behave proudly against the honorable. Isaiah 3:5. NWAD BASE.5

4. Of mean spirit; disingenuous; illiberal; low; without dignity of sentiment; as a base and abject multitude. NWAD BASE.6

5. Of little comparative value; applied to metals, and perhaps to all metals, except gold and silver. NWAD BASE.7

6. Deep; grave; applied to sounds; as the base sounds of a viol. NWAD BASE.8

7. Of illegitimate birth; born out of wedlock. NWAD BASE.9

8. Not held by honorable tenure. A base estate is an estate held by services not honorable, not in capite, or by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant. So writers on the laws of England use the terms, a base fee, a base court. NWAD BASE.10

BASE, n. [L. basis; that which is set, the foundation or bottom.] NWAD BASE.11

1. The bottom of any thing, considered as its support or the part of a thing on which it stands or rests; as the base of a column, the pedestal of a statue, the foundation of a house, etc. NWAD BASE.12

In architecture, the base of a pillar properly is that part which is between the top of a pedestal and the bottom of the shaft; but when there is no pedestal, it is the part between the bottom of the column and the plinth. Usually it consists of certain spires or circles. The pedestal also has its base. NWAD BASE.13

2. In fortification, the exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which is drawn from the flanked angle of a bastion to the angle opposite to it. NWAD BASE.14

3. In gunnery, the least sort of ordnance, the diameter of whose bore is 1 1/4 inch. NWAD BASE.15

4. The part of any ornament which hangs down, as housings. NWAD BASE.16

5. The broad part of any thing, as the bottom of a cone. NWAD BASE.17

6. In old authors, stockings; armor for the legs. NWAD BASE.18

7. The place from which racers or tilters start; the bottom of the field; the carcer or starting post. NWAD BASE.19

8. The lowest or gravest part in music; improperly written bass. NWAD BASE.20

9. A rustic play, called also bays, or prison bars. NWAD BASE.21

10. In geometry, the lowest side of the perimeter of a figure. Any side of a triangle may be called its base, but this term most properly belongs to the side which is parallel to the horizon. In rectangled triangles, the base, properly, is the side opposite to the right angle. The base of a solid figure is that on which it stands. The base of a conic section is a right line in the hyperbola and parabola, arising from the common intersection of the secant plane and the base of the cone. NWAD BASE.22

11. In chimistry, any body which is dissolved by another body, which it receives and fixes. Thus any alkaline, earthy or metallic substance, combining with an acid, forms a compound or neutral salt, of which it is the base. Such salts are called salts with alkaline, earthy or metallic bases. NWAD BASE.23

12. Thorough base, in music, is the part performed with base viols or theorbos, while the voices sing and other instruments perform their parts, or during the intervals when the other parts stop. It is distinguished by figures over the notes. NWAD BASE.24

Counter base is a second or double base, when there are several in the same concert. NWAD BASE.25

BASE, v.t. NWAD BASE.26

1. To embase; to reduce the value by the admixture of meaner metals. [Little used.] NWAD BASE.27

2. To found; to lay the base or foundation. NWAD BASE.28

To base and build the commonwealth of man. NWAD BASE.29

BASE-BORN, a. [base and born.] Born out of wedlock. NWAD BASE-BORN.1

2. Born of low parentage. NWAD BASE-BORN.2

3. Vile; mean. NWAD BASE-BORN.3

BASE-COURT, n. [See Court.] NWAD BASE-COURT.1

The back yard, opposed to the chief court in front of a house; the farm yard. NWAD BASE-COURT.2

BASED, pp. Reduced in value; founded. NWAD BASED.1

BASELESS, a. Without a base; having no foundation, or support. NWAD BASELESS.1

The baseless fabric of a vision. NWAD BASELESS.2

The fame how poor that swells our baseless pride. NWAD BASELESS.3

BASELY, adv. In a base manner; meanly; dishonorable. NWAD BASELY.1

2. Illegitimately; in bastardy. NWAD BASELY.2

BASEMENT, n. In architecture, the ground floor, on which the order or columns which decorate the principal story, are placed. NWAD BASEMENT.1

BASE-MINDED, a. Of a low spirit or mind; mean. NWAD BASE-MINDED.1

BASE-MINDEDNESS, n. Meanness of spirit. NWAD BASE-MINDEDNESS.1

BASENESS, n. Meanness; vileness; worthlessness. NWAD BASENESS.1

2. Vileness of metal; the quality of being of little comparative value. NWAD BASENESS.2

3. Bastardy; illegitimacy of birth. NWAD BASENESS.3

4. Deepness of sound. NWAD BASENESS.4

BASENET, n. A helmet. NWAD BASENET.1

BASE-STRING, n. The lowest note. NWAD BASE-STRING.1

BASE-VIOL, n. [See Viol.] A musical instrument, used for playing the base or gravest part. NWAD BASE-VIOL.1

BASH, v.i. [Heb. bosh, to be cast down, or confounded. See Abash.] NWAD BASH.1

To be ashamed; to be confounded with shame. NWAD BASH.2

BASHAW, n. [This word is often written most absurdly pasha, both by the English and Americans. It should be written and pronounced pashaw.] NWAD BASHAW.1

1. A title of honor in the Turkish dominions; appropriately, the title of the prime vizer, but given to viceroys or governors of provinces, and to generals and other men of distinction. The Turkish bashaws exercise an oppressive authority in their provinces. Hence, NWAD BASHAW.2

2. A proud, tyrannical, overbearing man. NWAD BASHAW.3

BASHFUL, a. [See Bash and Abash.] NWAD BASHFUL.1

1. Properly, having a downcast look; hence very modest. NWAD BASHFUL.2

2. Modest to excess; sheepish. NWAD BASHFUL.3

3. Exciting shame. NWAD BASHFUL.4

BASHFULLY, adv. Very modestly; in a timorous manner. NWAD BASHFULLY.1

BASHFULNESS, n. Excessive or extreme modesty; a quality of mind often visible in external appearance, as in blushing, a downcast look, confusion, etc. NWAD BASHFULNESS.1

2. Vicious or rustic shame. NWAD BASHFULNESS.2

BASHLESS, a. Shameless; unblushing. NWAD BASHLESS.1

BASIL, n. s as z. The slope or angle of a tool or instrument as of a chisel or plane; usually of 12 degrees, but for hard wood, 18 degrees. NWAD BASIL.1

BASIL, v.t. To grind or form the edge of a tool to an angle. NWAD BASIL.2
BASIL, n. s as z. NWAD BASIL.3

1. A plant of the genus Ocymum, of which there are many species, all natives of warm climates. They are fragrant aromatic plants, and one species, the sweet basil, is much used in cookery, especially in France. NWAD BASIL.4

BASIL, n. The skin of a sheep tanned; written also basan. NWAD BASIL.5

BASIL-WEED, n. Wild basil, a plant of the genus Clinopodium. NWAD BASIL-WEED.1

BASILAR, BASILARY, a. s as z. [See Basilic.] NWAD BASILAR.1

Chief; an anatomical term applied to several bones, and to an artery of the brain. NWAD BASILAR.2

Basilian monks, monks of the order of St. Basil, who founded the order in Pontus. The order still exists, but has less power and celebrity than formerly. NWAD BASILAR.3

BASILIC, n. s as z. [L. basilica; Gr. a king.] NWAD BASILIC.1

Anciently, a public hall or court of judicature, where princes and magistrates sat to administer justice. It was a large hall, with aisles, porticoes, tribunes, and tribunals. The bankers also had a part allotted for their residence. These edifices, at first, were the palaces of princes, afterwards courts of justice, and finally converted into churches. Hence basilic now signifies a church, chapel, cathedral, or royal palace. NWAD BASILIC.2

BASILIC, n. [See Basil.] The middle vein of the arm, or the interior branch of the axillary vein, so called by way of eminence. NWAD BASILIC.3
BASILIC, BASILICAL, a. Belonging to the middle vein of the arm. NWAD BASILIC.4

2. Noting a particular nut, the walnut, basilica nux. NWAD BASILIC.5

BASILICAL, a. s as z. In the manner of a public edifice or cathedral. NWAD BASILICAL.1

BASILICON, n. s as z. [Gr. royal.] NWAD BASILICON.1

An ointment. This name is given to several compositions in ancient medical writers. At present it is confined to three officinal ointments, distinguished into black, yellow and green basilicon. NWAD BASILICON.2

BASILISK, n. s as z. [L. basiliscus.] NWAD BASILISK.1

1. A fabulous serpent, called a cockatrice, and said to be produced from a cock’s egg brooded by a serpent. The ancients alledged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath and even its look was fatal. Some writers suppose that a real serpent exists under this name. NWAD BASILISK.2

2. In military affairs, a large piece of ordnance, so called from its supposed resemblance to the serpent of that name, or from its size. This cannon carried a ball of 200 pounds weight, but is not now used. Modern writers give this name to cannon of a smaller size, which the Dutch make 15 feet long, and the French 10, carrying a 48 pound ball. NWAD BASILISK.3

BASIN, n. basn. NWAD BASIN.1

1. A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses. NWAD BASIN.2

2. In hydraulics, any reservoir of water. NWAD BASIN.3

3. That which resembles a basin in containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a hollow place for liquids, or an inclosed part of water, forming a broad space within a strait or narrow entrance; a little bay. NWAD BASIN.4

4. Among glass grinders, a concave piece of metal by which convex glasses are formed. NWAD BASIN.5

5. Among hatters, a large shell or case, usually of iron, placed over a furnace, in which the hat is molded into due shape. NWAD BASIN.6

6. In anatomy, a round cavity between the anterior ventricles of the brain. NWAD BASIN.7

7. The scale of a balance, when hollow and round. NWAD BASIN.8

8. In Jewish antiquities, the laver of the tabernacle. NWAD BASIN.9

BASIS, n. plu. bases. [L. and Gr.; the same as base, which see.] NWAD BASIS.1

1. The foundation of any thing; that on which a thing stands or lies; the bottom or foot of the thing itself, or that on which it rests. See a full explanation under Base. NWAD BASIS.2

2. The ground work or first principle; that which supports. NWAD BASIS.3

3. Foundation; support. NWAD BASIS.4

The basis of public credit is good faith. NWAD BASIS.5

The basis of all excellence is truth. NWAD BASIS.6

4. Basis, in chimistry. See Base. No. 12. NWAD BASIS.7

BASK, v.i. [The origin of this word is not obvious.] NWAD BASK.1

To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat; to be at ease and thriving under benign influences; as, to bask in the blaze of day; to bask in the sunshine of royal favor. The word includes the idea of some continuance of exposure. NWAD BASK.2

BASK, v.t. To warm by continued exposure to heat; to warm with genial heat. NWAD BASK.3

BASKED, pp. Exposed to warmth, or genial heat. NWAD BASKED.1

BASKET, n. NWAD BASKET.1

1. A domestic vessel made of twigs, rushes, splinters or other flexible things interwoven. The forms and sizes of baskets are very various, as well as the uses to which they are applied; as corn-baskets, clothes-baskets, fruit-baskets, and work-baskets. NWAD BASKET.2

2. The contents of a basket; as much as a basket will contain; as, a basket of medlars is two bushels. But in general, this quantity is indefinite. NWAD BASKET.3

In military affairs, baskets of earth sometimes are used on the parapet of a trench, between which the soldiers fire. They serve for defense against small shot. NWAD BASKET.4

BASKET, v.t. To put in a basket. NWAD BASKET.5

BASKET-FISH, n. A species of sea-star, or star-fish, of the genus Asterias, and otherwise called the Magellanic star-fish. It has five rays issuing from an angular body, and dividing into innumerable branches. These when extended form a circle of three feet diameter. [See Asterias.] NWAD BASKET-FISH.1

BASKET-HILT, n. [See Hilt.] A hilt which covers the hand, and defends it from injury, as of a sword. NWAD BASKET-HILT.1

BASKET-HILTED, a. Having a hilt of basket-work. NWAD BASKET-HILTED.1

BASKET-SALT, n. Salt made from salt-springs, which is purer, whiter and finer, than common brine salt. NWAD BASKET-SALT.1

BASKET-WOMAN, n. A woman who carries a basket, to and from market. NWAD BASKET-WOMAN.1

BASKING, ppr. Exposing or lying exposed to the continued action of heat or genial warmth. NWAD BASKING.1

BASKING-SHARK, n. The sun-fish of the Irish; a species of squalus or shark. This fish is from three to twelve yards in length, or even longer. The upper jaw is much longer than the lower one; the tail is large and the upper part much longer than the lower; the skin is rough, of a deep leaden color on the back, and white on the belly. The fish weighs more than a thousand pounds, and affords a great quantity of oil, which is used for lamps, and to cure bruises, burns, and rheumatic complaints. It is viviparous, and frequents the northern seas. [See Squalus.] NWAD BASKING-SHARK.1

BASQUISH, a. baskish. Pertaining to the people or language of Biscay. NWAD BASQUISH.1

BASS, n. [It has no plural.] The name of several species of fish. In England, this name is given to a species of perch, called by some the sea-wolf, from its voracity, and resembling, in a degree, the trout in shape, but having a larger head. It weighs about fifteen pounds. In the northern states of America, this name is given to a striped fish which grows to the weight of 25 or 30 pounds, and which enters the rivers; the perca ocellata. A species of striped fish, of a darker color, with a large head, is called sea-bass, as it is never found in fresh water. This fish grows to two or three pounds weight. Both species are well tasted, but the proper bass is a very white and delicious food. NWAD BASS.1

BASS, n. The linden, lime or tiel tree; called also bass-wood. [See Bast.] NWAD BASS.2

2. [pron. bas.] A mat to kneel on in churches. NWAD BASS.3

BASS, n. In music, the base; the deepest or gravest part of a tune. This word is thus written in imitation of the Italian basso, which is the Eng. base, low; yet with the pronunciation of base and plural bases, a gross error that ought to be corrected; as the word used in pronunciation is the English word base. NWAD BASS.4
BASS, v.t. To sound in a deep tone. NWAD BASS.5

BASS-RELIEF, n. In English, base-relief. [See Lift and Relief.] NWAD BASS-RELIEF.1

Sculpture, whose figures do not stand out far from the ground or plane on which they are formed. When figures do not protuberate so as to exhibit the entire body, they are said to be done in relief; and when they are low, flat or little raised from the plane, the work is said to be in low relief. When the figures are so raised as to be well distinguished, they are said to be bold, strong, or high, alto relievo. [See Relief.] NWAD BASS-RELIEF.2

BASS-VIOL, n. [See Base-viol] NWAD BASS-VIOL.1

BASSA [See Bashaw.] NWAD BASSA.1

BASSET, n. A game at cards, said to have been invented at Venice, by a nobleman, who was banished for the invention. The game being introduced into France by the Venetian embassador, Justiniani, in 1674, it was prohibited by severe edicts. NWAD BASSET.1

BASSET, v.i. [See Basil.] Among coal diggers, to incline upwards. Thus a vein of coal bassets, when it takes a direction towards the surface of the earth. This is called cropping, and is opposed to dipping. NWAD BASSET.2

BASSETING, ppr. Having a direction upwards. NWAD BASSETING.1

BASSETING, n. The upward direction of a vein in a coal mine. NWAD BASSETING.2

BASSO-CONCERTANTE, in music, is the base of the little chorus, or that which plays throughout the whole piece. NWAD BASSO-CONCERTANTE.1

BASSO-CONTINUO, thorough base, which see under base. NWAD BASSO-CONTINUO.1

BASSO-REPIENO, is the base of the grand chorus, which plays only occasionally, or in particular parts. NWAD BASSO-REPIENO.1

BASSO-RELIEVO. [See Bass-relief.] NWAD BASSO-RELIEVO.1

BASSO-VIOLINO, is the base of the base-viol. NWAD BASSO-VIOLINO.1

BASSOCK, n. The same as bass, a mat. NWAD BASSOCK.1

BASSOON, n. A musical wind instrument, blown with a reed, and furnished with eleven holes, which are stopped, as in other large flutes. Its compass comprehends three octaves. Its diameter at bottom is nine inches, and for convenience of carriage it is divided into two parts; whence it is called also a fagot. It serves for the base in a concert of hautboys, flutes, etc. NWAD BASSOON.1

BASSOONIST, n. A performer on the bassoon. NWAD BASSOONIST.1

BAST, n. A rope or cord, made of the bark of the lime tree, bass-wood or linden; or the bark made into ropes and mats. NWAD BAST.1

BASTARD, n. A natural child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate or spurious child. By the civil and canon laws, a bastard becomes a legitimate child, by the intermarriage of the parents, at any future time. But by the laws of this country, as by those of England, a child, to be legitimate, must at least be born after the lawful marriage. NWAD BASTARD.1

Bastard eigne’, or bastard elder, in law, is when a man has a bastard son, and afterward marries the mother, and has a legitimate son, called mulier puisne, or younger. NWAD BASTARD.2

BASTARD, n. A kind of sweet wine. [Not in use.] NWAD BASTARD.3
BASTARD, a. Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. NWAD BASTARD.4

2. Spurious;; not genuine; false; supposititious; adulterate. In this sense, it is applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not genuine; as a bastard hope, bastard honors. NWAD BASTARD.5

In military affairs, bastard is applied to pieces of artillery which are of an unusual make or proportion, whether longer or shorter, as the double culverin extraordinary, half or quarter culverin extraordinary. NWAD BASTARD.6

Bastard-Flower-fence, a plant, a species of Adenanthera. NWAD BASTARD.7

Bastard-hemp, a plant, a species of Datisca, false hemp. NWAD BASTARD.8

Bastard-Rocket, dyers-weed, or wild woad, a species of Reseda. NWAD BASTARD.9

Bastard-Star of Bethlehem, a plant, a species of Albuca. NWAD BASTARD.10

Bastard-Scarlet, a red color dyed with balemadder. NWAD BASTARD.11

BASTARD, v.t. To make or determine to be a bastard. NWAD BASTARD.12

BASTARDISM, n. The state of a bastard. NWAD BASTARDISM.1

BASTARDIZE, v.t. NWAD BASTARDIZE.1

1. To make or prove to be a bastard; to convict of being a bastard; to declare legally, or decide a person to be illegitimate. NWAD BASTARDIZE.2

The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock. NWAD BASTARDIZE.3

2. To beget a bastard. NWAD BASTARDIZE.4

BASTARDLY, adv. In the manner of a bastard; spuriously. NWAD BASTARDLY.1

BASTARDS, an appellation given to a faction or troop of bandits, who ravaged Guienne in France in the 14th century; supposed to have been headed by the illegitimate sons of noblemen, who were excluded from the rights of inheritance. NWAD BASTARDS.1

BASTARDY, n. A state of being a bastard, or begotten and born out of lawful wedlock, which condition disables the person from inheriting an estate. NWAD BASTARDY.1

BASTARNIC, a. Pertaining to the Basternae, ancient inhabitants of the Carpathian mountains. NWAD BASTARNIC.1

Bastarnic Alps, the Carpathian mountains, between Poland, Hungary and Transvlvania; so called from the ancient inhabitants, the Bastarnoe. NWAD BASTARNIC.2

BASTE, v.t. NWAD BASTE.1

1. To beat with a stick. NWAD BASTE.2

2. To drip butter or fat upon meat, as it turns upon the spit, in roasting; to moisten with fat or other liquid. NWAD BASTE.3

BASTE, v.t. To sew with long stitches; to sew slightly. NWAD BASTE.4

BASTED, pp. Beat with a stick; moistened with fat or other matter in roasting; sewed together with long stitches, or slightly. NWAD BASTED.1

BASTILE, n. An old castle in Paris, built between 1369 and 1383, used as a state prison, and converted to the purpose of confining men for life, who happened to incur the resentment or jealousy of the French monarchs. It was demolished by the enraged populace in 1789. NWAD BASTILE.1

BASTINADE, BASTINADO, n. [See Baste.] A sound beating with a stick or cudgel; the blows given with a stick or staff. This name is given to a punishment in use among the Turks, of beating an offender on the soles of his feet. NWAD BASTINADE.1

BASTINADE, BASTINADO, v.t. To beat with a stick or cudgel. NWAD BASTINADE.2

BASTING, ppr. Beating with a stick; moistening with dripping; sewing together with long stitches. NWAD BASTING.1

BASTING, n. A beating with a stick; a moistening with dripping; a sewing together slightly with long stitches. NWAD BASTING.2

BASTION, n. bas’chun. A huge mass of earth, usually faced with sods, sometimes with brick, or stones, standing out from a rampart, of which it is a principal part; formerly called a bulwark. Bastions are solid or hollow. A flat bastion is made in the middle of the curtain, when it is too long to be defended by the bastions in its extremes. A cut bastion has its point cut off and instead of it a re-entering angle, or an angle inwards, with two points outward. A composed bastion has two sides of the interior polygon unequal, which makes the gorges unequal. A demibastion is composed of one face only, which makes the gorges unequal. A demibastion is composed of one face only, with one flank and a demigorge. A double bastion is one raised on the plane of another. NWAD BASTION.1

BASTO, n. The ace of clubs at quadrille. NWAD BASTO.1

BASTON, BATOON, n. In architecture, a round molding in the base of a column; called also a tore, [torus.] NWAD BASTON.1

BAT, n. NWAD BAT.1

1. A heavy stick or club; a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other. NWAD BAT.2

2. Bat or bate, a small copper coin of Germany, with a small mixture of silver, worth four crutzers. Also a coin of Switzerland, worth five livres. NWAD BAT.3

3. A term given by miners to shale or bituminous shale. NWAD BAT.4

BAT, v.i. To manage a bat, or play with one. NWAD BAT.5
BAT, n. [I have not found this word in any European language, except in English.] NWAD BAT.6

A race of quadrupeds, technically called Vespertilio, of the order primates, in Linne’s system. The fore feet have the toes connected by a membrane, expanded into a kind of wings, by means of which the animals fly. The species are numerous. Of these, the vampire or Ternate bat inhabits Africa and the Oriental Isles. These animals fly in flocks from isle to isle, obscuring the sun by their numbers. Their wings when extended measure five or six feet. They live on fruits; but are said sometimes to draw blood from persons when asleep. The bats of the northern latitudes are small; they are viviparous and suckle their young. Their skin resembles that of a mouse. They enter houses in pleasant summer evenings, feed upon moths, flies, flesh, and oily substances, and are torpid during the winter. NWAD BAT.7

BATFOWLER, n. One who practices, or is pleased with bat-fowling. NWAD BATFOWLER.1

BATFOWLING, n. A mode of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost. The birds flying to the light are caught with nets or otherwise. NWAD BATFOWLING.1

BATABLE, a. [See Bate and Debate.] Disputable. The land between England and Scotland, which, when the kingdoms were distinct, was a subject of contention, was called batable ground. NWAD BATABLE.1

BATATAS, n. A species of tick or mite, found on the potatoes of Surinam. Also the Peruvian name of the sweet potatoe. NWAD BATATAS.1

BATAVIAN, a. [from Batavi, the people who inhabited the isle.] NWAD BATAVIAN.1

Pertaining to the isle of Betaw in Holland, between the Rhine and the Waal. But more generally, the word denotes what appertains to Holland in general. NWAD BATAVIAN.2

BATAVIAN, n. A native of Betaw, or of the Low Countries. NWAD BATAVIAN.3

BATCH, n. [from bake.] NWAD BATCH.1

1. The quantity of bread baked at one time; a baking of bread. NWAD BATCH.2

2. Any quantity of a thing made at once, or so united as to have like qualities. NWAD BATCH.3

BATE, n. [It is probably from the root of beat. See Debate.] NWAD BATE.1

Strife; contention; retained in make-bate. NWAD BATE.2

BATE, v.t. [The literal sense is, to beat, strike, thrust; to force down. See Beat.] NWAD BATE.3

To lessen by retrenching, deducting or reducing; as, to bate the wages of the laborer; to bate good cheer. [We now use abate.] NWAD BATE.4

BATE, v.i. To grow or become less; to remit or retrench a part; with of. NWAD BATE.5

Abate thy speed and I will bate of mine. NWAD BATE.6

Spenser uses bate in the sense of sinking, driving in, penetrating; a sense regularly deducible from that of beat, to thrust. NWAD BATE.7

Yet there the steel staid not, but inly bate. NWAD BATE.8

Deep in the flesh, and open’d wide a red flood gate. NWAD BATE.9

BATE-BREEDING, a. Breeding strife. [Not used.] NWAD BATE-BREEDING.1

BATEFUL, a. Contentious; given to strife; exciting contention. NWAD BATEFUL.1

BATELESS, a. Not to be abated. NWAD BATELESS.1

BATEMENT, n. Abatement; deduction; diminution. [Bate, with its derivatives, is, I believe, little used, or wholly obsolete in the United States.] NWAD BATEMENT.1

BATEAU, n. batto’. [L. batillum.] A light boat, long in proportion to its breadth, and wider in the middle than at the ends. NWAD BATEAU.1

BATENITES, BATENISTS, BATENIANS, n. A sect of apostates from Mohammedism, who professed the abominable practices of the Ismaelians and Kirmatians. The word signified esoteric, or persons of inward light. [See Assassins.] NWAD BATENITES.1

BATFUL, a. [See Batten.] Rich, fertile, as land. [Not in use.] NWAD BATFUL.1

BATH, n. NWAD BATH.1

1. A place for bathing; a convenient vat or receptacle of water for persons to plunge or wash their bodies in. Baths are warm or tepid, hot or cold, more generally called warm and cold. They are also natural or artificial. Natural baths are those which consist of spring water, either hot or cold, which is often impregnated with iron, and called chalybeate, or with sulphur, carbonic acid, and other mineral qualities. These waters are often very efficacious in scorbutic, bilious, dyspeptic and other complaints. NWAD BATH.2

2. A place in which heat is applied to a body immersed in some substance. Thus, NWAD BATH.3

A dry bath is made of hot sand, ashes, salt, or other matter, for the purpose of applying heat to a body immersed in them. NWAD BATH.4

A vapor bath is formed by filling an apartment with hot steam or vapor, in which the body sweats copiously, as in Russia; or the term is used for the application of hot steam to a diseased part of the body. NWAD BATH.5

A metalline bath is water impregnated with iron or other metallic substance, and applied to a diseased part. NWAD BATH.6

In chimistry, a wet bath is formed by hot water in which is placed a vessel containing the matter which requires a softer heat than the naked fire. NWAD BATH.7

In medicine, the animal bath is made by wrapping the part affected in a warm skin just taken from an animal. NWAD BATH.8

3. A house for bathing. In some eastern countries, baths are very magnificent edifices. NWAD BATH.9

4. A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or seven gallons and four pints, as a measure for liquids; and three pecks and three pints, as a dry measure. NWAD BATH.10