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Show ;t[; BV BA HaveI fived to be carried in # baflect, like ay 2, Of mea darrow of butcher's offal, and thrown into th Shake[peare Thames No barrow's whee Shall mark thy ftocking with a miry trace Gay Ba'rRrow. z. /. [beng, Sax.] A hog whence barrow greafe, or hog's lard \ Barrow, whether in the beginning o end of names of places, fignifies grove ; from beanpe, which the Saxon Gibfon ufed in the fame fenfe Barrow is likewife ufed in Cornwall fo a hillock, unde which in old times bodies have been buried 90 BA'RTER. @. n. [baratter, Fr. to tric in traffick fro barar craft fraud. To traffick by exchanging one commodity for another, in oppofition to purchafing with money As if they fcorn'd to trade and barter By giving or by taking quarter Hudibras A man has not every thing growing upon hi foil, and therefor neighbour is willin 7o BA'RTER. 2. a i. To give any thin fomething elfe to barter with hi Collier in exchang fo Once, in contempt, they would have barter'd me Shakefpeare Then as thou wilt difpofe the reft To thofe who, at the market rate Can barter honour for eftate Prior I fee nothing left us, but to truck and barte our'goods, like the wild Indians, with each other Sawift " 2. Sometimes it is ufed with the particl away before the thing given, If they will barter away their time, methink they fhould at leaft have fome eafe in exchange Decay of Piety He alfo bartered away plums, that would hav rotted in a week, for nuts that would laft good fo his eating a whole year. Locke difingenuous ; illi beral ; ungenerous low ; without dig nity of fentiment: of perfons Since the perfe@ions are fuch in the party love, as the feeling of them cannot come unto an unnoble heart; fhall that heart, lifted up to fuc a height, be counted bafe Sidney It is bafe in his adverfaries thus to dwell upo Atterbury the excefles of a paflion 3. Of low ftation; of mean account; with out dignity of rank; without honour If the lords and chief men degenecrate, wha fhall be hoped of the peafants and bafer people Spenfer on Ireland If that rebellio Came, like itfelf, in bafe and abje& routs You, reverend father, and thefe noble lords Shakefpeare Had not been here It could not elfe be, I thould prove fo baf To fue and be denied fuch common grace Shak And I will yet be more vile than this, and wil be bafe in mine own fight 2 Sam Infurrections of bafe people are commonly mor furious in their beginnings Bacon He, whofe min TIs virtuous, is alone of noble kind Though poor in fortune, of celeftial race confequence of no honourable birth ; illegitimate Why baftard ? wherefore bafe When my dimenfions are as well compa Shakefpeare This young lord loft his life with his father i the field, and with them a bafe fon. Camden's Rem 5. Applied to metals, without value. I is ufed in this fenfe of all metal excep gold and filver A guinea is pure gold, if it has nothing but gol in it, without any alloy or afer metal Watts 6. Applied to founds, deep; grave. I is more frequently written 4a/s, thoug the comparative éafer feems to requir bafe 2 BA'RTER. 7. /. [from the verb.] The a In pipes, the lower the note holes be, and th further from the mouth of the pipe, the more daf or praétice of traflicking by exchange o found they yield Bacon commodities; fometimes the thing give Base-BORN adj Bor ou o wedlock. in exchange But fee thy bafe-born child, thy babe of thame From England they may be furnithed with fuc things as' they may want, and, in exchange o barter, fend other things with which they ma abound Bacon He who corrupteth Englith with foreign words 1 gel 35 as wife as ladies that change plate for china for which the laudable traffick of old clothes i much the faireft barter Felton BA'RTERER. 7. /. [from darter.] He tha # trafficks by exchange of commodities . Ba'RTERY. 7. [ [from barter.] Exchang of commodities It is a received opinion, that, in moft ancien ages, there was only bartery or exchange of com modities amongft moft nations. Camden's Remains Ba'rTrRAM. 2./. A plant; the fame wit pellitory BarTon. 2./0 The demefne lands of manour; the manour-houfe itfelf; an fometimes the out-houfes Blount BASE adj. [bas, Fr baffo, Ital baxo Span. baffis, low Latin; Bacis. 1. Mean; vile ; worthlefs: of things The harveft white plaumb is a bafe plumb, an the white date plumb are no very good plumbs Bacon Pyreicus was only famous for counterfeitin all ‘bafe things as earthe pitchers, ‘a fcullery wherewpon he was furnamed Rupographus Peacham Who, left by thee, upon our parith came Gay Base-courT. n. /. [bas cour, Fr.] Lowe court ; not the chief court that leads t the houfe ; the back-yard yard the farm My lord, in the bafe-court he doth attend To fpeak with you Base-miNDED worthlefs It fignifieth Shake[peare adj Mean - fpirited as it feemeth no more than ab Je&, bafe-minded, falfe-hearted, coward, or nidget Camden's Remains Base-vior. z. /. [ufually written &afswiol.] An inftrament which is ufed i concerts for the bafe {found At the firft grin he caft every human featare ou of his countenance ; at the fecond, he became th head of a bafe-wiol Addifon Bask. n. f. [bas, Fr bafis, Lat. 1. The bottom of any thing: commonl ufed for the lower partof a building or column What if it tempt thee tow'rd the flood, my lord Or to the dreadful fummit of the cliff That beetles o'er his bafe into the fea Men of wea abilities in great place, are lik little ftatues fet on great bafes, mad the lefs b their advancement Bacon Mercury was patron of flocks, and the ancient placed a ram at the bafe of his images Broome 3. That part of any orhament which hang down as houfings Phalaftus was all in white, having his afes an caparifon embroidered Sidney. 4. The broad part of any body; as, th bottom of a cone 5. Stockings, or perhaps the armour fo the legs. [from éas, Fr. And round blunt truncheon by his fide So great a man at arms defy'd Hudibras 6. The place from which racers or tilter run the botto of the field; the car cer, the ftarting-poft He faid ; to their appointed dafe they went ‘With beating heart th' expeting fign receive And, ftarting all at once, the barrier leave. Dryd 7. The ftring that gives a bafe found And he commits the crime who calls him bafe Dryden As honeft madam's iflue 2. 'The pedeftal of a ftatue Nor fhall it e'er be faid that wight With gauntlet blue and bafes white 4. Bafe-born ; born out of wedlock, and b For him was I exchang'd and ranfom'd But with a bafer man of arms by fa fpirit BA Skakefp Firm Dorick pillars found your folid bafe The fair Corinthian crowns the higher fpace. Dryd And all below is firength, and all above is grace Columns of polifh'd marble, firmly fe Prier On golden dafes, arg his legs and fegt At thy well fharpen'd thumb, from fhore to fhore Dryden The trebles queak for fear, the bafes voar 8. Anold ruftick play, written by Skznne bays, and in fome counties called pri/o bars He with tvp friplings (lads more like to ru The country bafe, than to commit fuch flaughter Shake[peare Made good the pafiage To Bast. v. a. [bafier, Fr.] To embalfe to make lefs valuable by admixture o meaner metals I am doubtful whether men have fufficientl refined metals, which we cannot 4afe : as, whethe iron, brafs, and tin be refined to the height. Bacon adv Ba'sgLy [from bafe. 1. In a bafe manner ; meanly; dithonour ably The king is not himfelf, but bafely le Shakefpeare By flatterers " A licutenant bafely gave it up, as foon as Effe Clarendon in his paffage demanded it With broken vows his fame he will not ftain With conqueft bafely bought, and with ingloriou Diyden gain 2. In baftardy Thefe two Mitylene brethren, bafely born, crep out of a fmall galliot unto the majefty of grea Krolles kings Ba'sEnESs. z /. [from ba/. 1. Meannefs ; vilenefs ; badnefs Such is the power of that fweet paflion Spenfer That it all fordid bafenefs doth expel Your foul's above the bafensfs of diftruft Nothing but love could make you fo unjufts Dryd When a man's folly muft be fpread open befor the angels, and all his dafenefs ript up before thof South pure {pirits, this will be a double hell 2. Vilenefs of metal ‘We alleged the fraudulent obtaining his patent the bafenefs of his metal, and the prodigious fu Sawift to be coined 3. Baftardy ; illegitimacy of birth Why brand they u With bafe? with bafenefs ? baftardy ? Shake[peare 4. Deepnefs of found The juft and meafured proportion of the ai percufled towards the bafencfs or treblenefs of tones is one of the greateit fecrets in the contemplatio Bacon of founds 7o BASH. @. #. [ probably from 4af.] T b athamed t b fhame His countenance was bold wit confounde and Aa/bed no For Guyon's looks, but fcorpful eye-glance athi {hot Spenfer Basuaa'w |