BASKED
B'ASKED, participle passive Exposed to warmth, or genial heat.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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BASKET
B'ASKET, noun1. 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 w...
BASKET-FISH
B'ASKET-FISH, noun 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 ...
BASKET-HILT
B'ASKET-HILT, noun [See Hilt.] A hilt which covers the hand, and defends it from injury, as of a sword.
BASKET-HILTED
B'ASKET-HILTED, adjective Having a hilt of basket-work.
BASKET-SALT
B'ASKET-SALT, noun Salt made from salt-springs, which is purer, whiter and finer, than common brine salt.
BASKET-WOMAN
B'ASKET-WOMAN, noun A woman who carries a basket, to and from market.
BASKING
B'ASKING, participle present tense Exposing or lying exposed to the continued action of heat or genial warmth.
BASKING-SHARK
B'ASKING-SHARK, noun 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 th...
BASQUISH
B'ASQUISH, adjective baskish. Pertaining to the people or language of Biscay.
BASS
B'ASS, noun [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 re...
BASS-RELIEF
BASS-RELIE'F, noun In English, base-relief. [See Lift and Relief.]Sculpture, whose figures do not stand out far from the ground or plane on which they are formed. When figures d...
BASS-VIOL
BASS-VIOL, noun [See Base-viol]
BASSA
BAS'SA [See Bashaw.]
BASSET
BAS'SET, noun 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 emb...
BASSETING
BAS'SETING, participle present tense Having a direction upwards.BAS'SETING, noun The upward direction of a vein in a coal mine.
BASSO-CONCERTANTE
BASSO-CONCERTANTE, in music, is the base of the little chorus, or that which plays throughout the whole piece.
BASSO-CONTINUO
BASSO-CONTINUO, thorough base, which see under base.
BASSO-RELIEVO
BASSO-RELIEVO. [See Bass-relief.]
BASSO-REPIENO
BASSO-REPIENO, is the base of the grand chorus, which plays only occasionally, or in particular parts.54
BASSO-VIOLINO
BASSO-VIOLINO, is the base of the base-viol.
BASSOCK
BAS'SOCK, noun The same as bass, a mat.
BASSOON
BASSOON', noun 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....
BASSOONIST
BASSOON'IST, noun A performer on the bassoon.
BAST
B'AST, noun A rope or cord, made of the bark of the lime tree, bass-wood or linden; or the bark made into ropes and mats.
BASTARD
B'ASTARD, noun 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, b...
BASTARDISM
B'ASTARDISM, noun The state of a bastard.