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Basting
- verb - a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together
- cover with liquid before cooking; "baste a roast"
- moistening a roast as it is cooking
- sew together loosely, with large stitches; "baste a hem"
- strike violently and repeatedly; "She clobbered the man who tried to attack her"
Bastion
- noun - a group that defends a principle; "a bastion against corruption"; "the last bastion of communism"
- a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle
- projecting part of a rampart or other fortification
Batfish
- noun - bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins
Bathing
- verb - clean one's body by immersion into water; "The child should bathe every day"
- cleanse the entire body; "bathe daily"
- immersing the body in water or sunshine
- suffuse with or as if with light; "The room was bathed in sunlight"
- the act of washing yourself (or another person)
Battier
- adjective - informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband barmy"
Batting
- verb - (baseball) the batter's attempt to get on base
- beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!"
- have a turn at bat; "Jones bats first, followed by Martinez"
- strike with, or as if with a baseball bat; "bat the ball"
- stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber
- use a bat; "Who's batting?"
- wink briefly; "bat one's eyelids"
Batwing
- adjective - formed or shaped like a bat's wing; "a dress with batwing sleeves"
- one of a pair of swinging doors (as at the entrance to a western saloon)
Bauxite
- noun - a clay-like mineral; the chief ore of aluminum; composed of aluminum oxides and aluminum hydroxides; used as an abrasive and catalyst
Bawdier
- adjective - humorously vulgar; "bawdy songs"; "off-color jokes"; "ribald language"
Bawdies
- noun - lewd or obscene talk or writing; "it was smoking-room bawdry"; "they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy"