Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Baste

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Baste


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(1):

(v. t.) To mark with tar, as sheep.

(2):

(v. t.) To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.

(3):

(v. t.) To beat with a stick; to cudgel.

(4):

(v. t.) To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.