Basse-danse: f. A measure.
Bassement. Basely, lowly, deiectedly, humbly, poorely; also, vnder, low, below.
Bassenne: The mizzen saile of a ship.
Bassesse: f. Basenesse, lowlinesse, abiect humblenesse; also, lownesse.
Basset: m. A terrier, or earthing beagle; also, a low stoole; also, a dwarfe, or very low man.
Basse-taille: f. Raised, or imbossed imagerie, wherin the representation is made, not of, but vpon, the whole peece.
Basseté: f. Basenesse, abiection; too much humilitie.
Basseur: f. Humblenesse, lowlinesse.
Bassier: m. The tub that receiues tap-droppings; or, a tub to put lyes, or the dregs, or bottomes of wine, &c, in.
Bassiere: f. The same. Bassieres. The bottomes, grounds, or lees of wine; dregs that be setled in the bottome of wine, &c.
Bassille: f. Rocke Sampire, Crestmarine.
Bassin: m. A bason to wash in; also, a scull; or sleight, & bason-like headpeece, vsed at barriers. Des Bassins. as Bassinets; Crowfoot. Bassin à selle percée. The pan of a close stoole. Bassin d'vne balance. The scowle of a balance. Cracher au bassin. To lay out, or pay downe readie coine; also, to giue fees; or bestow a reward in hand; also, as in Cracher. Bassine: f. A deepe, or bason-like, and footlesse, posnet, vsed most by Conseruers, or Comfet-makers.
Bassiné: m. ée: f. Warmed, fomented; rubbed, or chafed vntill it grow warme; also bathed, or washed with warme liquor.
Bassinement: m. Warming, a fomentation, or fomenting; a rubbing, chafing, or heating; a bathing, or washing, in warme liquor.
Bassiner. To warme, foment; rub, chafe, hug, heat a thing vntill it be full warme; also, to bath, wash, or heat in warme liquor.
Bassinet. (The hearbe) Looke Bassinets. Bassinet. A little bowle, a small bason; also, the scull, sleight helmet, or headpeece, worne, in old time, by the French men of armes; and hence, a man of Armes (in which sence it is euer vsed in the Plurall number.) Le bassinet d'vne 'arquebuse. The Firepan, or touchpan. Le bassinet d'un reschaut. The pan of a chafing dish.
Bassinets: m. The flower Crowfoot, King-cob, gold crap, yellow craw, butter flower; There be many kinds of it, & that which we call, Batchelers buttons, is one (the double one) of them. Bassinets blancs. White Crowfoot, Vrchin Crowfoot. Bassinets d'eau. Water Crowfoot, marsh, Crowfoot. Bassinets de marais, ou, des prez. The marsh Marigold. Petis bassinets. Little Celandine, Pilewort, Figwort; so called, because the flower of it somewhat resembles the Crowfoot; otherwise, no kind thereof.
Bassinoire: f. A warming pan.
Bast: m. A pannell, or packsaddle.
À bast vuide. renvoyé à b. Emptie handed; with a flea in his eare; as wise as he came; without effecting, or getting what he went for.
De quelque costé que le bast vire. Howsoeuer matters be carried, in what sort soeuer they be handled.
Ventru à plein bast. Swagbellied, gorbellied, full paunched.
Bastage: m. A certaine toll exacted by some country Lords for euery horse that passes by them sadled with a packesaddle, though he carrie nothing else; for if hee doe, they take toll both for his saddle, and his burthen.
Bastance. Sufficiencie; what is ynough.
Bastard: m. A bastard; the brood of a whoore; the son of the people; one that came in at the window; also, a course bowlter for cheat bread; also, as Bastardeau. Bon bastard c'est avanture, mais meschant c'est de nature: Prov. A bastard may bee good, but nature makes him bad.
Bastard: m. de: f. Bastardly, base borne, misbegotten; false, adulterate, counterfeit; not rightly bred; vnlawfully begotten. Couleur bastarde. A weake, faint, pale, wan, decaied colour. Espée bastarde. A short sword; or a sword that is not long ynough. Fenestre bastarde. A false window.
Bastardage: m. Bastardie, bastardisme.
Bastardaille: f. Bastardie; also, bastards, or, a crue, or knot of bastards.
Bastarde: f. A demie Cannon, or demie Culuerin; a smaller peece of any kind.
Bastardeau: m. A damme, or water-stop, made of piles, &c.
Bastardie. as Bastardise: ¶Norm. Bastardiere: f. A seed plot, nurse garden, or nurserie, wherein yong trees are set to bee afterwards remooued.
Bastardise: f. Bastardie, bastardisme; the breeding; state, condition, qualitie, of a bastard; also, the succession of bastards, or that which falls to the king by the death of a bastard.
Baste: f. A wily sleight or subtiltie, a craftie pranke; an odde tricke, or shrewd turne; also, the skirt of a doublet, &c.
Basté: m. ée: f. Sadled with a packesaddle.
Baste. (A Verbe Impersonall;) No more, tis ynough, it sufficeth, be how it be will.
Basteau. as Bateau. Bastelé: m. ée: f. Jugled; buffoonized; tumbled; idly talked; also, tossed vncertainely vp and downe.
Basteler. To iugle, or tumble; also, to play the buffoone, or foole; to talke verie much, and verie idly; also, to tosse, or wander vncertainely vp and downe.
Bastelerie: f. Jugling; tumbling; puppet-playing; any such foolish pastime, or legerdemaine; also, buffoonisme.
Bastelet: m. A little boat.
Basteleur: A iugler, tumbler, puppet-player,; one that professeth any of those arts; also, one that leades bears, apes, baboones, or dauncing dogges about the countrey, and gets a scuruie liuing by them.
Basteleuse: f. A woman that makes a profession of Jugling, Tumbling, and such other idle, or base exercises.
Basteliere: f. as Bateliere. Baster. To saddle with a pannell, or packesaddle; also, to looke, or gaze, as out of a window; also, to serue, or suffice. Tant que l'ame me bastera au corps. Whilest I haue breath in my bodie.
Basti. Looke Basty. Bastier: m. A maker of packesaddles; also, a base lubberly fellow.
Bastier: m. ere: f. Vsually bearing, or sadled with, a packesaddle.
