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Webster 1913 Edition
Baste
Baste
(bāst)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Basted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Basting
.] [Cf. Icel.
beysta
to strike, powder; Sw. basa
to beat with a rod: perh. akin to E. beat
.] 1.
To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
One man was
basted
by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters. Pepys.
2.
(Cookery)
To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
3.
To mark with tar, as sheep.
[Prov. Eng.]
Baste
,Verb.
T.
[OE.
basten
, OF. bastir
, F. b[GREEK]tir
, prob. fr. OHG. bestan
to sew, MHG. besten
to bind, fr. OHG. bast
bast. See Bast
.] To sew loosely, or with long stitches; – usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Baste
BASTE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To beat with a stick.2.
To drip butter or fat upon meat, as it turns upon the spit,in roasting; to moisten with fat or other liquid.BASTE
,Verb.
T.