Part 48 (1/2)

BARTANE, _s._ Great Britain.

_Bannatyne Poems._

BARTANYE, BERTANYE, _s._ Britanny.

_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._

BARTIZAN, BERTISENE, _s._ A battlement on the top of a house or castle, or around a spire, S.

_Statist. Acc._

O. Fr. _bretesche_, wooden towers used for defence, Ital.

_bertesca_.

BASE DANCE, A kind of dance, slow and formal in its motions.

_Complaynt S._

Fr. _ba.s.se danse_.

_To_ BASH, _v. a._ To beat to sherds, Loth. _Smash_ synon.

Su. G. _bas-a_, to strike.

BASH, _s._ A blow, S. A.

_To_ BASH _up_, _v. a._ To bow or bend the point of an iron instrument inwards, Loth.

BASING, Ba.s.sING, _s._ A bason; pl. _basingis_.

Fr. _ba.s.sin_, id.

_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._

Ba.s.s.

1. This term is used in S. for the inner bark of a tree.

2. A mat laid at a door for cleaning the feet; also, one used for packing bales, S.

Teut. _bast_, cortex.