BARTANE, _s._ Great Britain.
_Bannatyne Poems._
BARTANYE, BERTANYE, _s._ Britanny.
_Bellenden._
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. _basse 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, BASSING, _s._ A bason; pl. _basingis_.
Fr. _bassin_, id.
_Bellenden._
BASS.
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.
BASSIE, _s._ A large wooden dish, used for carrying meal from the _girnal_ to the _bakeboard_, S. B.
_Ross._
Fr. _bassin_, a bason.
BASSIE, _s._ An old horse, Clydes. Loth.
V. ~Bawsand~.
BASSIL, _s._ A long cannon, or piece of ordnance.
_Pitscottie._
Abbrev. from Fr. _basilic_.
BASSIN, _adj._ Of or belonging to rushes.
_Douglas._
Teut. _biese_, juncus, scirpus; L. B. _basse_, a collar for cart-horses made of flags.
BASSNYT, _adj._ White-faced.
V. ~Bawsand~.
_Gl. Sibb._
BASTAILYIE, _s._ A bulwark, a blockhouse.
_Bellenden._
Fr. _bastille_, a fortress, a castle furnished with towers.
BASTILE, BASTEL, _s._ A fortress, principally meant for securing prisoners, South of S.
V. preceding word.
_Statist. Acc._