Part 48 (1/2)

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 Athe feet; also, one used for packing bales, S