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Show BA Ba4ss. adj. [See Base.] In mufick, grave deep BA.SS}:{ELIEF. #.. [from bas, and relizf raifed work, Fr.] Sculpture, the figure th fro ou not ftan d of whic ground in their full proportion. Felibie diftinguithes three kinds of bafs-relief in the firft, the front figures appea almoft with the full relief; in the fecond, they ftand out no more than on half; and in the third much lefs, as i ~ coins Bass-vioL O See Base Vior th fwee of th arc lie on o Dryden Mufes, playing on a bafs-wiol See Basmaw Ba'ssa th A game a Ba'sset. n. f. [bafir, Fr. cards, invented at Venice Gamefter would no more blafpheme; and lad Dabcheek's baffit bank would be broke BASS RELIEVO [Ital. Dennis Se Bass RELIEF Basso''wN }rz.f. [6affon, Fr. Basso'on. inftrument of the wind kind blown with a reed, an eleve A mufica holes furnithed wit which are ftopped lik other large flutes ; its diameter at bot tom is nine inches, and it ferves for th bafs in concerts of haatboys, &¢ _ Trevoux Ba'ssock. #. /. The fame with daf BA'STARD lo a. birth [baffardd Welth o baffarde, Fr. of wedlock that, ‘accordin o t father is not known no married f orde of law hi Ayliffe Him to the Lydian king Lycimnia bare And fent her boafted baffard to the war Dryden 2. Any thing {purious or falfe liet ftar in the firmament twinkled on my ba/Shake|peare m,rdizing Ba'starpLY. adw. [from baffard.] In th manner of a baftard ; {purioufly Into the body, and bafardly they grow Donne Ba'starpy. n. /[ [from baffard. Anun lawful {ftate of birth, which difables th baftard, both according to the laws o God and man, from fucceeding to a Aylife inheritance Once fhe flandered me with baffardy But whether I be true begct, or no getter, of more baffard children than war's a de{troyer of men Shakefpeare 2. Spurious; not genuine falfe; adulterate. I thing which bears fom femblance to another, i or baftard {uppofititious this fenfe, an relation or recalled {puriou You may partly hope that your father got yo not, that you are not the Jew's daughter Tha were akind of baffard hope indeed Shakefpeare Men who, under the difguife of publick good purfue their own defigns of power, and fuch daffar honours as attend them Temple Bastarn Cedar Tree. [called guazum in the Weft Indies. o Ba'sTarD. @, 7 [from the noun.] T convit of being a baftard; to figmatize with baftardy tw She lived to fee her brother beheaded, and he fon depofe fro th crown their blood, and cruelly murdered baftarde Bacon 70 Ba'srarDp1zE. . a. [from baftard, 1. Ta conviét of being a baftard 2. To beget a baftard "Mor. i as candles, oil, and cheefe ; and appear only in the fummer evenings, when th weather 1s fine On the bat's back I do fly Shake[peare But then grew reafon dark; that fair ftar n mor Could the fair forms of good and truth difcern Bats they became who eagles were before And this they got by their defire tolearn. Dawiés Some animals are placed in the middle betwix Where fwallows in the winter feafon keep And how the drowfy bat and dormoufe fleecp. Gay Bar-FowrLing. n /. [from bat and foal.] A particular manner of birdcatching i While a little gentle jerkin Sets the {pirits all a-working the night-time, whil Savift 2. To drip butter, or any thing elfe, upo meat as it turns upon the {pit want wha I have, Shakefpearc or otherwife You would lift the moon out of her fphere, ¥ the would continue in it five weeks without chang ing.-We fhould fo, and then go a bat-fowling Sawift Shakefpeare 4. To few flightly. [baffer, Fr. to ftitch. Bodie Sidney And all thofe harfh and rugged found Ba'r aBLE. adj. [from bate.] Difputable Batable ground feems to be the ground heretofore in queftion, whether it belonged to Englan or Scotland, lying between both kingdoms. Cowe// BatcH. n f. [from bake. 1. The quantity of bread baked at a time Hudibras Of baflinados, cuts, and wounds 2. It is fometimes taken fo punifiment, of beating a the {oles of his feet 7o Bastina'DE. } @. a. [fro 7o Bastina'po. § baffonner a Turkit offender o the noun T Fr. beat ; to treat with the bafinads Nick feized the longer end of the cudgely an with it began to baffinado old Lewis, who ha flunk intoa corner, waiting the event ofa fquabble Fr. The joiner puts the boards into oven mafs of earth, ufually faced with {ods fometimes with brick, rarely with ftone ftanding out from a rampart, of whic z. Any quantity of any thing made a once, fo as to have the fame qualities Except he were of the fame meal and batch Ben Fonfor See:BAcHELOR Ba'rcuerLor Batke. n /. [perhaps contratted from e bate. Bar. n. /. [baz, Sax. This word feems t have given rife to a great number o words in many languages; as, battre Fr to beat laton bartle Strife as a mak Zo BATE. v. a. [contralted from abate. 1. To leflen any thing ; to retrench »Shdll I'bend low, and in a bondman's key With bated breath, and whifp'ring humblenefs Shakefpe Merchant of Venice Say this Nor, envious at the fight, will 1 forbea My plenteous bowl, nor bate my plentegus cheer Dryden 2. 'To fink the price beat, barty,|3 When the landholder's rent falis, he muft eithe bate the labourer's wages, or not employ, or no Locke pay him To leflen a demand contention bate it is a principal part, and was ancientl Harris called a bulwark Toward; but how ? ay there 's the queftion Prior Fierce the affault, unarm'd the daffion after th batch is drawn, or lays them in a warm ftable Mortimer's Hufbandry Arbutbnot A hug lighted at night by fire, muft have brighter luftre than by day; as facking of cities bat-fowling Peacharm Er de, Fr. garf /- [bafponnade fend himfelf at roof . the flames, are caught either with nets The fat of roafted mutton falling on the birds will ferve to baffe them, and fo fave time an But this courtefy was worfe than a baftinads t Zelmane; fo with rageful eyes the bade him de they ar upon perches, trees, or hedges. The lLight torches or ftraw, and then beat th bufhes ; upon which the birds flying t 3. To moiften meat on the fpit by fallin upon it [baftion Calmet When owls do cry Hudibras Bafiings heavy, dry, obtufe #z fatty fubftances, fuc two kinds, as bats, which have fomething of bird and beafts Locke For one that 's bafled to feol painj Becaufe the pangs his bones endur Contribute nothing to the cure Ba'stion It never grows tame, feeds upo flies, infects, an Quoth fhe, I grant it is in vai Score a pint of baffard. Then your brown da/?ard is your only drink Peace is a very apoplexy, lethatgy, infenfible, them rals, may be deduced. 1. To beat with a ftick the mea Hakewill Bat. 7. /. [wefpertilio, the etymology anknown.] An animal having the body o a moufe and the wings of a bitd; no with feathers, but with a fort of fki which is extended. It lays noeggs, bu brings forth its young alive, and fuckle a ftick ; from which perhaps baffon, ftick, and all its derivatives, or collate 1. The a& of beating with a cudgel ; th blew given with a cudgel Ba'sTarD. adj. [from the noun. 1. Begotten out of wedlock ; illegitimate broken with bats Bazata, in th baften. [baftonner, Fr Armorick diale&, fignifies to ftrike wit Siry, I thin bafling A heavy ftic A handfome bat he held On which he leaned, as one far in eld. Spenfer They were fried in arm chairs, and their bone 7o BasTE. v. a. participle pafl. bafted, o BasTiNA DE wn B Shak or club That ftill T lay upon my mother's head. Shakefp In refpect of the evil confequents, the wife' adultery is worfe, as bringing baffardy into a faTaylor mily No more of baffardy in heirs of crowns. Pope But rooted in your tongue; baffards and fyilable Of no allowance to your bofom's truth Shake/p 3. A kind of fiveet wine whirlbat an' 'rickbat. Good feed degenerates, and oft obey The foil's difeafe, and into cockle ftrays Let the mind's thoughts but be tranfplanted f butter Word and others It probably fignified weapon that did execution by its weight in oppofitior to a fharp edge; whenc I fhould have been what I am, had the maiden Only dulnefs can produce 1. Baflard, according to the civil an canon law, 1s a perfon born of a woma ou B8A . BA Bat |