Bastile Bastille :: Bastile Bastille (n.) A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place..

Bastile Bastille :: Bastile Bastille (n.) The Bastille, formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison..

Bastinade :: Bastinade (n.) See Bastinado, n..

Bastinade :: Bastinade (v. t.) To bastinado.

Bastinado :: Bastinado (n.) A blow with a stick or cudgel.

Bastinado :: Bastinado (n.) A sound beating with a stick or cudgel. Specifically: A form of punishment among the Turks, Chinese, and others, consisting in beating an offender on the soles of his feet..

Bastinado :: Bastinado (v. t.) To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet..

Bastinadoes :: Bastinadoes (pl. ) of Bastinad.

Bastinadoes :: Bastinadoes (imp. & p. p.) of Bastinad.

Bastinadoing :: Bastinadoing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bastinad.

Basting :: Basting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bast.

Bastion :: Bastion (n.) A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin..

Bastioned :: Bastioned (a.) Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.

Bombastic :: Bombastic (a.) Alt. of Bombastica.

Bombastical :: Bombastical (a.) Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated.

Demibastion :: Demibastion (n.) A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank..

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