bastardy
— Noun
– English
~ the status of being born to parents who were not married
baste
— Verb
– English
~ cover with liquid before cooking; "baste a roast"
baste
— Verb
– English
~ strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her"
baste
— Verb
– English
~ sew together loosely, with large stitches; "baste a hem"
baste
— Noun
– English
~ a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together
baster
— Noun
– English
~ a sewer who fastens a garment with long loose stitches
baster
— Noun
– English
~ a cook who bastes roasting meat with melted fat or gravy
baster
— Noun
– English
~ a tube with a rubber bulb used to take up and release melted fat or gravy in order to moisten roasting meat
bastille
— Noun
– English
~ a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner)
bastille
— Noun
– English
~ a fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries; it was destroyed July 14, 1789 at the start of the French Revolution
bastinado
— Verb
– English
~ beat somebody on the soles of the feet
bastinado
— Noun
– English
~ a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels
bastinado
— Noun
– English
~ a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet
basting
— Noun
– English
~ moistening a roast as it is cooking
basting
— Noun
– English
~ a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together
bastion
— Noun
– English
~ a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle
bastion
— Noun
– English
~ projecting part of a rampart or other fortification
bastion
— Noun
– English
~ a group that defends a principle; "a bastion against corruption"; "the last bastion of communism"
bastioned
— Adjective
– English
~ secured with bastions or fortifications
bastnaesite
— Noun
– English
~ a yellow-to-brown mineral that is a source of rare earth elements