Part 20

=banalité=, _n.f._, vulgarity, a commonplace, a trite expression.

=banane=, _n.f._, banana.

=bananier=, _n.m._, banana-tree.

=banc= (ban), _n.m._, bench, seat, settle; pew; reef, shoal, bank; bed; dock, bar. _Un — à dos_; a bench with a back to it. _Un — de gazon_; a turf seat. _— d’église_; church seat, pew. _— de l’œuvre_; churchwardens’ pew. _Il est encore sur les —s_; he is still at college. _Echouer sur un — de sable_; to run aground on a sand bank. _Un — de corail_; a coral reef. _Un — de harengs_; a shoal of herrings. _Un — d’huîtres_; a bed of oysters. _— de pierre_; layer, bed, of stone. _Être au — des accusés_; to be in the dock. _— des témoins_; witness-box.

=bancal=, =-e=, _adj._, bandy-legged.

☉=bancelle=, _n.f._, long narrow form, seat.

=banche=, _n.f._, sunken ridge.

=banco=, _adj._, banco (a term used in exchange business). _Faire —_; to hold all the money staked.

=bancroche=, _adj._ _V._ =bancal=.

=bandage=, _n.m._, (surg.) bandage; application of bandages; belt; truss; tire (of wheels); hoop, (of guns); spring. _— herniaire_; truss. _Délier un —_; to undo a bandage.

=bandagiste=, _n.m._, truss-maker.

=bande=, _n.f._, band, belt, strip; company; gang; set of people, crew; flight; troop; (her.) bend; (arch.) fascia, string; (anat.) tract. _— de papier_; a slip of paper, wrapper. _La — d’une selle_; the side bar of a saddle. _La — d’un billard_; the cushion of a billiard-table. _Une — de voleurs_; a gang of thieves. _Ces oiseaux vont par —s_; those birds go in companies. _Faire — à part_; to keep apart. _Donner à la —_; (nav.) to heel. _Demi-—_; parliament-heel of a ship. _Sous —_; under wrapper.

=bandé=, =-e=, _part._, bandaged, taut, stretched; (her.) bendy.

=bandeau=, _n.m._, headband, fillet, frontlet, bandage; veil, mist; (arch.) string-course. _Avoir un — sur les yeux_; to be blindfolded. _En —x_; (of the hair) plain.

=bandelette=, _n.f._, little band, string, fillet; (surg.) fascia; (arch.) bandelet.

=bander=, _v.a._, to bind up; to tighten, to bend; to bandy (at tennis); (arch.) to lay the stones of an arch. _— une plaie_; to bind up a wound. _— la caisse_; to run away. _Se — la tête_; to bind up one’s head. _Se — les yeux_; to blindfold one’s self.

=bander=, _v.n._, to be stretched, tight, taut.

☉_se_ =bander=, _v.r._, to oppose, to resist.

=bandereau= (ban-dro), _n.m._, trumpet-sling.

=banderole= (ban-drol), _n.f._, banderole, streamer, pennant; shoulder-belt.

=bandière=, _n.f._ _Front de —_; front line of battle; ☉banner, flag.

=bandit=, _n.m._, robber, vagabond, bandit, ruffian.

☉=bandoulier=, _n.m._, highwayman; mountaineer.

=bandoulière=, _n.f._, shoulder-belt, bandoleer; (phot.) sling-case. _Porter la —_; to be a gamekeeper. _En —_; slung over the shoulder.

=bandure=, _n.f._, (bot.) pitcher-plant.

=bang=, _n.m._, (bot.) bang.

=banian=, _n.m._, Banian (idolater in India).

=banlieue=, _n.f._, suburbs, outskirts (of a town).

=bannatte= _or_ =bannasse=, _n.f._, tallow sieve or strainer.

=banne=, _n.f._, awning, tilt; tarpaulin; hamper (of boats).

=banneau=, _n.m._, small hamper, fruit basket.

=banner=, _v.a._, to cover with a tilt.

=banneret= (-rè), _adj._, banneret. _Chevalier —_; knight banneret.

=banneton=, _n.m._, basket, (fishing) cauf.

=bannette=, _n.f._, small hamper.

=banni=, =-e=, _part._, banished, outlawed.

=bannière=, _n.f._, banner, standard, flag, colors, streamer. _Se ranger sous la — de quelqu’un_; to side with any one. _Aller au-devant de quelqu’un avec croix et —_; to give one a handsome reception.

=bannir=, _v.a._, to banish, to expel, to dismiss; to drive away, to exclude, reject.

=bannissable=, _adj._, deserving banishment.

=bannissement= (-mān), _n.m._, banishment.

=banque=, _n.f._, bank, banking business; (print. office) wages, pay-day. _Carnet de —_; bank book. _Mandat de la —_; bank-post-bill. _Succursale de —_; branch bank. _Compte de —_; bank account. _Assignation de —_; bank transfer. _Mettre à la —_; to put in the bank. _Faire la —_; to be a banker. _Action de la —_; bank-stock. _Billet de — de cinq livres_; a five-pound bank-note. _Avoir un compte en —_; to have an account open at the bank. _Faire sauter la —_; to break the bank.

=banqueroute= (ban-kroot), _n.f._, bankruptcy. _— frauduleuse_; fraudulent bankruptcy. _Faire —_; to be bankrupt. _Faire — à quelqu’un_; to break one’s word. _Faire — à l’honneur_; to forfeit one’s honor.

=banquerouti-er=, _n.m._, =-ère=, _n.f._, bankrupt.

=banquet=, _n.m._, banquet, feast.

=banqueter=, _v.n._, to banquet, to feast.

=banquette=, _n.f._, bench; (fort.) banquette; outside (of a coach); footway (of a road). _Jouer devant les —s_; (theat.) to play to empty benches.

=banquier=, _n.m._, money-agent, banker.

=banquise=, _n.f._, ice-belt, ice-floe; bank (of fog).

=bans=, _n.m.pl._, (hunt.) litter for dogs.

=bantam=, _n.m._, bantam.

=banvin=, _n.m._, (feudal law) right to sell wine.

=baobab=, _n.m._, (bot.) baobab.

=bapaume=, _n.f._, (nav.). _En —_; at a standstill.

=baptême= (ba-têm), _n.m._, baptism, christening. _Nom de —_; Christian name. _Extrait de —_; certificate of baptism. _Recevoir le —_; to be baptized. _Tenir un enfant sur les fonts de —_; to stand godfather or godmother to a child. _Le — du tropique_; the ceremony of crossing the line, ducking at sea.

=baptiser= (ba-ti-zé), _v.a._, to baptize, to christen. _— des cloches_; to consecrate bells. _— un vaisseau_; to christen a ship. _— quelqu’un_; to give one a nickname. _— son vin_; to dilute one’s wine.

=baptismal=, =-e= (ba-tis-mal), _adj._, baptismal.

=baptistaire= (ba-tis-tèr), _adj._, of baptism. _Registre —_; parish register. _Extrait —_; certificate of baptism.

=baptiste= (ba-tist), _n.m._, baptist.

=baptistère= (ba-tis-tèr), _n.m._, baptistery.

=baquet=, _n.m._, tub, trough, bucket.

=bar=, _n.m._, (ich.) umbrina; (pisc.) bass; bar.

=baragouin=, _n.m._, gibberish, jargon, lingo. _Je ne comprends pas son —_; I don’t understand his gibberish.

=baragouinage=, _n.m._, gibberish; rigmarole.

=baragouiner=, _v.n._, to talk gibberish; to gabble. _Comme ces étrangers baragouinent_; how these foreigners do gabble, jabber.

=baragouiner=, _v.a._, to sputter out. _— un discours_; to sputter out a speech. _— une langue_; to mangle a language.

=baragouineu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, jabberer.

=baraque=, _n.f._, barrack, hut; shed, shanty; booth (at fairs); hovel.

=baraquement=, _n.m._, (milit.) hutting.

=baraquer=, _v.a._, to make barracks; to hut.

_se_ =baraquer=, _v.r._, (milit.) to make huts.

=baraterie=, _n.f._, (nav.) barratry.

=barattage=, _n.m._, churning.

=baratte=, _n.f._, churn.

=baratter=, _v.a._, to churn.

=barbacane=, _n.f._, (fort.) barbacan; outlet.

☉=barbacole=, _n.m._, pedagogue, schoolmaster.

=barbare=, _adj._, savage, merciless, barbarous, rude; barbarian.

=barbare=, _n.m._, barbarian.

=barbarement= (-mān), _adv._, barbarously.

=barbaresque=, _adj._, of Barbary.

=barbarie=, _n.f._, barbarity, rudeness, savageness, cruelty. _Commettre une —_; to commit a piece of barbarity. _— de langage_, _de style_; crudeness of language, of style.

=barbarisme=, _n.m._, (gram.) barbarism.

=barbe=, _n.f._, beard; whiskers (of cats, dogs, &c.); (vet.) barbel; lappet (of caps); (arts) rough edge; beard (of corn, barley, &c.); gills (of cocks); wattle (of fish). _Jours de —_; shaving days. _— bleue_; blue beard. _Sainte-—_; (nav.) gun-room. _Jeune —_; beardless boy. _Vieille —_; old man, graybeard. _Se faire la —_; to shave one’s self. _Se faire faire la —_; to get one’s self shaved. _Je le lui dirai à sa —_; I’ll tell it him to his face. _Faire la — à quelqu’un_; to beard any one, to show who is master. _Rire dans sa —_; to laugh in one’s sleeve. _La — d’une plume_; the feather of a quill. _Mouiller en —_; (nav.) to come with two anchors ahead. _— d’une coiffe_; pinner. _—-de-bouc_; (bot.) goat’s beard, tragopogon. _—-de-Jupiter_; Jupiter’s beard. _—-de-chèvre_; meadow sweet. _—-de-moine_; dodder. _—-de-capucin_; bleached dandelion, endive.

=barbe=, _n.m._, barb, Barbary horse.

=barbes=, _n.f.pl._, lappets, pinners.

=barbé=, =-e=, _adj._, (her.) barbed, bearded; (bot.) barbated.

=barbeau=, _n.m._, (ich.) barbel; (bot.) bluebottle.

=barbelé=, =-e=, _adj._, bearded, barbed. _Flèche —e_; barbed arrow.

=barbet=, _n.m._, =-te=, _n.f._, water-spaniel. _Ce — va bien à l’eau_; that spaniel takes the water well. _Être crotté comme un —_; to be as dirty as you like.

=barbette=, _n.f._, (milit.) barbette. _Tirer en —_; to fire in barbe, in barbette. _Coucher à la —_; to sleep on the floor.

=barbeyer=, _v.a._, (nav.) to shiver.

=barbiche=, _n.f._, billy-goat beard.

=barbichon=, _n.m._, shaggy spaniel puppy.

=barbier=, _n.m._, barber, shaver.

=barbifier=, _v.a._, (fam.) to shave.

*=barbillon=, _n.m._, a little barbel; gill (of a cock); wattle (of a fish, a turkey).

*=barbillons=, _n.m.pl._, (vet.) barbles.

=barbon=, _n.m._, graybeard, dotard; (bot.) sweet rush. _— odorant_; lemon grass.

=barbote=, _n.f._, (ich.) eel-pout, loach, groundling.

=barboter=, _v.n._, to dabble, to paddle, to splash about; (nav.) to shiver.

=barboteur=, _n.m._, tame duck.

=barboteuse=, _n.f._, (l.ex.) dirty drab; street-walker.

=barbotière=, _n.f._, duck-pond; trough.

=barbotine=, _n.f._, (bot.) wormseed.

*=barbouillage=, _n.m._, daub, daubing; scrawl; rigmarole, twaddle.

*=barbouillé=, =-e=, _part._, daubed, besmeared.

*=barbouiller=, _v.a._, to daub, to besmear; to soil, to dirty, to blot; to scrawl, to scribble; to slur; to stammer, to splutter out; to mumble; to stumble, to flounder; to bungle. _Il lui a barbouillé le visage_; he has besmeared his face for him. _On l’a tout barbouillé d’encre_; they have daubed him all over with ink. _— un plancher_; to daub a floor. _Il n’écrit pas, il barbouille_; he does not write, he scrawls. _Il ne peint pas, il barbouille_; he does not paint, he daubs. _— un compliment_; to stammer out a compliment. _Qu’est-ce qu’il barbouille?_ what is he mumbling? _— un récit_; to make a bungle of a story. _— une feuille_; (print.) to slur a sheet.

*_se_ =barbouiller=, _v.r._, to besmear, to injure one’s character.

*=barbouilleur=, _n.m._, dauber, scribbler; mumbler, babbler.

=barbu=, =-e=, _adj._, bearded.

=barbu=, _n.m._, (orni.) barbet.

=barbue=, _n.f._, (ich.) brill.

=barcarolle=, _n.f._, barcarolle.

☉=barce= _or_ =berche=, _n.f._, a small cannon.

=barcelonnette=, _n.f._, child’s cradle, swing-cot.

=bard=, _n.m._, hand-barrow.

=bardane=, _n.f._, (bot.) bur, burdock.

=barde=, _n.f._, barb (iron armor for horses); rasher of bacon.

=barde=, _n.m._, bard, poet.

=bardé=, =-e=, _part._, barded; covered with a thin slice of bacon, larded. _Un cheval — et caparaçonné_; a horse barded and caparisoned. _Chapon —_; larded capon.

=bardeau=, _n.m._, shingle (board); (bot.) mealy-tree; (print.) fount-case.

=bardelle=, _n.f._, pack-saddle.

=barder=, _v.a._, to cover with thin slices of bacon, to lard; to barb a horse; to remove stones, wood, &c., on a handbarrow.

=bardeur=, _n.m._, stone-carrier.

=bardis=, _n.m._, (nav.) water-board.

=bardit=, _n.m._, (antiq.) Germanic war song.

=bardot=, _n.m._, small mule, pack-mule; drudge, butt, laughing-stock.

=barège=, _n.m._, barege.

=barême=, _n.m._, ready reckoner.

=baret=, _n.m._, roaring of an elephant.

=bareter=, _v.n._, to roar like an elephant.

=barge=, _n.f._, (orni.) godwit; (nav.) a barge; hay-mow, wood-pile.

=barguette= (-ghèt), _n.f._, ferry-boat.

*=barguignage= (-ghi-gnaj), _n.m._, (fam.) hesitation, haggling, wavering, higgling, dilly-dallying.

*=barguigner= (-ghi-gné), _v.n._, to be irresolute, to haggle, to waver, to shilly-shally.

*=barguigneu-r=, _n.m._, =-se=, _n.f._, haggler.

=barigel=, _n.m._, (Italian) chief-constable.

=baril= (-ri), _n.m._, barrel, cask, tub, keg.

*=barille=, _n.f._, barilla.

*=barillet=, _n.m._, rundlet; box; barrel of a watch, (of locks) drum.

=bariolage=, _n.m._, variegation, odd medley of colors, motley.

=barioler=, _v.a._, to streak with several colors, to variegate, to checker, to dapple.

=bariquaut=, _n.m._ _V._ =barriquaut=.

=baritel=, _n.m._, winding engine. _— à chevaux_; horse-whim, whim-gin.

=barlong=, =-ue=, _adj._, of unequal length.

=barnabite=, _n.m._, monk, barnabite-friar.

=barnache=, _n.f._, (orni.) barnacle.

=baromètre=, _n.m._, barometer, weather-glass. _Le — est au beau temps_; the barometer is at set fair.

=barométrique=, _adj._, barometrical.

=baron=, _n.m._, baron.

=baronnage=, _n.m._, baronage.

=baronne=, _n.f._, baroness.

=baronnet=, _n.m._, baronet. _Chevalier —_; knight baronet.

=baronnial=, =-e=, _adj._, baronial.

=baronnie=, _n.f._, barony.

=baroque=, _adj._, rough, irregular, uncouth, odd, singular, strange.

=barque=, _n.f._, bark, boat, craft; barge. _— de pêcheur_; fishing boat. _Conduire la —_; to steer the boat. _Il conduit bien sa —_; he is getting on very well. _Il sait bien conduire sa —_; he knows how to manage his affairs. _Patron de —_; barge-master.

=barquée=, _n.f._, boatful of any goods or stores.

=barquerolle=, _n.f._, small barge.

=barrage=, _n.m._, toll-bar; barrier; dam; weir.

=barrager=, _n.m._, toll-gatherer.

=barras=, _n.m._ _V._ =galipot=.

=barre=, _n.f._, bar (of metal or wood); cross-bar; railing; bolt; division; lever, crow; dash, cross; (nav.) helm, tiller, bar; stripe; (mus.) bar; bar (of courts of judicature, public assemblies). _Avoir —s sur quelqu’un_; to have the advantage over any one. _Jouer aux —s_; to play at base (a game). _— sous le vent!_ (nav.) helm alee! (man.) _—s_; bars. _Tirer la —_; to close the list. _Je ne fais que toucher —s_; I am off again immediately.

=barré=, _part._ _V._ =dent=.

=barreau=, _n.m._, bar (for closing); bar (place reserved for barristers); lawyers, barristers; splat (of chairs). _Fréquenter le —_; to attend the courts. _Suivre le —_; to be a barrister. _Être reçu_, _admis_, _au —_; to be called to the bar.

=barrer=, _v.a._, to bar; to bar up; to fence up; to obstruct, to thwart; to stop up; to cancel; to dash over; to cross off; (her.) to bar; (vet.) to knit fast (a vein). (fig.) _— quelqu’un_; to throw obstacles in any one’s way.

=barrette=, _n.f._, man’s cap; cardinal’s cap.

=barricade=, _n.f._, barricade.

=barricader=, _v.a._, to barricade, to obstruct.

=barrière=, _n.f._, rail, bar, barrier, stile; starting post.

=barriquaut=, _n.m._, keg.

=barrique=, _n.f._, large barrel or cask, hogshead.

=barrir=, _v.n._, to trumpet (of elephants).

=barrot=, _n.m._, (nav.) beam.

=barroté=, =-e=, _adj._, (of a vessel) full to the beams.

=barroter=, _v.a._, (nav.) to load (a vessel).

=barrotin=, _n.m._, (nav.) lodge (across deck beam).

=bartavelle=, _n.f._, red partridge.

=baryte=, _n.f._, baryta.

=baryton=, _n.m._, (mus.) baritone; (Greek gram.) barytone.

=bas=, =-se=, _adj._, not high, low; shallow; vile, mean, despicable; abject, sordid; low, lower; inferior. _La marée est —se_; it is low water. _—se mer_; low water. _Une rivière —se_; a shallow river. _Les eaux sont —ses chez lui_; he is hard pushed for money. _Des sentiments —_; mean sentiments. _Une —se flatterie_; mean flattery. _Avoir l’âme —se_; to have a sordid soul. _Le — peuple_; the mob, the common people. _Parler d’un ton —_; to speak in a low voice. _Avoir le cœur haut et la fortune —e_; to have more spirit than fortune. _Avoir la vue —se_; to be short-sighted. _Une messe —se_; a low mass. _— étage_; lower story. _Une —se-fosse_; a dungeon. _Ce — monde_; this lower world. _Les Pays-Bas_; the Netherlands. _Le Bas-Rhin_; the Lower Rhine. _La Basse-Saxe_; Lower Saxony. _Les — officiers_; the inferior officers. _J’ai acheté cela à — prix_; I bought that at a very low price. _Les —ses cartes_; the small cards. _—se naissance_; mean birth. _Le — bout d’une chose_; the lower end of a thing. _La —se latinité_; low Latin. _Faire prendre à quelqu’un un ton plus —_; to make any one lower his tone. _Faire main —se sur_; to pillage, plunder, lay hands upon. _À porte —se, passant courbé_; one must bow to circumstances; the low door suits the shrunken frame.

=bas=, _adv._, down, low. _À —!_ down with. _A — le tyran!_ down with the tyrant! _À — les ministres!_ down with the ministers! _Au plus —_; at the very lowest. _Bien —_; very low. _En —_; below, down stairs. _Être à —_; to be ruined. _Être — percé_; to be short of, to be run aground for money. _Chapeaux —!_ hats off! _Jeter —_; to throw down. _Ici-—_; here below. _Là-—_; over there, over the way, yonder. _Le malade est encore bien —_; the patient is still very weak. _Mettre —_; (of animals) to bring forth, to whelp, to foal, to cub, to lamb, to pup, to kitten; to lay down; to take off. _Parler —_; to speak low. _Regarder_, _traiter_, _quelqu’un du haut en —_; to look at, to treat any one contemptuously. _Tenir —_; to keep in submission, to keep under.

=bas=, _n.m._, lower part; bottom; foot (of a thing); small (of the leg). _Le — du visage_; the lower part of the face. _Le — de l’escalier_; the foot of the stairs. _Il y a du haut et du — dans la vie_; there are ups and downs in life. _Être au —_; to be low (of liquids in casks). _Sa voix est belle dans le —_; (mus.) his voice is excellent in the lower notes.

=bas=, _n.m._, stocking. _— bleu_; blue-stocking (literary woman). _— à côtes_, _à jour_; ribbed, open-worked, stocking. _— de laine_, _de soie_; woolen, silk, stocking. _Cela vous va comme un — de soie_; it fits you like a glove.

=basalte=, _n.m._, basalt.

=basaltique=, _adj._, basaltic.

=basane=, _n.f._, sheep-leather.

=basané=, =-e=, _adj._, tawny, sun-burnt, swarthy.

=bas-bord=, _n.m._, (_n.p._). (nav.) _V._ =bâbord=.

=bascule=, _n.f._, see-saw; weighing-machine; plyer (of a draw-bridge); reciprocating motion; rocker (of cradles); lever. _Chaise à —_; rocking-chair. _Faire la —_; to see-saw. _Fusil à —_; breech-loading gun. _Pont à —_; weigh-bridge.

=basculer=, _v.n._, to see-saw, to tip off (to fall).

=bas-dessus=, _n.m._, (_—-—_) (mus.) low treble.

=base=, _n.f._, base, basis, bottom, foundation; ground-work, ground-plot; foot, stock, radix (of logarithms). _La — d’un système_; the basis of a system. _— des fondations_; (engineering) footing.

=baselle=, _n.f._, (bot.) basella.

=baser=, _v.a._, to found, to fix, to base, to ground, to rest, to settle.

_se_ =baser=, _v.r._, to be fixed; to be grounded; to be founded; to depend, to rely.

=bas-fond=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) flat, hollow, bottom; (nav.) shoal, shallow, shallow water.

=basilaire=, _adj._, (anat.) basilar.

=basilic=, _n.m._, (bot.) basil, sweet basil; (erpetology) basilisk, cockatrice.

=basilicon= _or_ =basilicum=, _n.m._, ointment, basilicon.

=basilique=, _n.f._, (anat., arch.) basilic, basilica.

=basilique=, _adj._, (anat.) basilical.

=basiliques=, _n.f.pl._, Basilic Constitutions.

=basin=, _n.m._, dimity.

=basique=, _adj._, (chem.) basic.

=bas-métier=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) (manu.) hand-frame.

☉=basoche=, _n.f._, basoche (corporation of lawyers).

=basque=, _n.m.f._, Biscayan; Basque (nation and language).

=basque=, _n.f._, flap, skirt, tail, of a garment. _Être toujours pendu à la — de quelqu’un_; to be always after any one, pestering anybody.

=basquine=, _n.f._, skirt.

=bas-relief=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) (sculpt.) basso-relievo, bas-relief.

=basse=, _n.f._, (mus.) bass, bass-string. _— continue_; thorough-bass. _Contre-—_; double-bass.

=basse=, _n.f._, (nav.) shallow, flat, shoal, ridge of rocks, sand-bank, breaker.

=basse-contre=, _n.f._, (_—s-—_) (mus.) bass-counter, lower tenor.

=basse-cour=, _n.f._, (_—s-—s_), inner court, poultry-yard, back-yard.

=basse-étoffe=, _n.f._, (_n.p._) mixture of lead and pewter.

=basse-fosse=, _n.f._, (_—s-—s_) dungeon.

=basse-marche=, _n.f._, (_n.p._) treadle (for weaving).

=bassement= (bâs-mān), _adv._, meanly, pitifully, poorly, despicably, vilely, sordidly. _Il s’exprime —_; he expresses himself vulgarly. _Penser —_; to have ignoble thoughts.

=bassesse=, _n.f._, baseness, meanness, vileness, littleness, villany, servileness; mean, sordid, action. _Avec —_; meanly. _Faire une —_; to do a base action.

=basset=, _n.m._, (mam.) terrier; basset-hound.

=basset=, =-te=, _adj._, of low stature.

*=basse-taille=, _n.f._, (_—s-—s_) (mus.) bass, (sculpt.) bas-relief. _V._ =baryton= and =bas-relief=.

=bassette=, _n.f._, basset (game at cards).

=basse-voile=, _n.f._, (_—s-—s_) (nav.) lower sail of a ship.

=bassin=, _n.m._, basin, valley, hollow; pond; (anat.) pelvis; scale (balance); (nav.) dock. _Droit de —_; dock-due. _Le — d’un port_; the basin of a harbor; wet dock. _Les —s d’une balance_; the scales of a balance. _Cracher au —_; (fig.) to contribute, to fork out. _Mettre dans le —_; (nav.) to dock. _— à flot_; floating dock. _— d’échouage_, or _— de radoub_; dry dock.

=bassine=, _n.f._, deep, wide pan.

=bassiner=, _v.a._, to warm (a bed); to bathe (with warm lotions), to foment, to steep; to water.

=bassinet=, _n.m._, pan, fire-pan (of fire-arms); (bot.) crowfoot; (anat.) calyx.

=bassinoire=, _n.f._, warming-pan.

=bassiot=, _n.m._, small tub (used by distillers).

=basson=, _n.m._, (mus.) bassoon; bassoonist.

=baste=, _n.m._, basto (cards).

☉=baster=, _v.n._, to suffice. Only employed in: _Baste pour cela_; well, so be it, let that pass. _Baste!_ pooh! nonsense!

☉=basterne=, _n.f._, basterna (cart drawn by oxen).

=bastide=, _n.f._, block house, country-house, villa (in the south of France).

*=bastille=, _n.f._, Bastille; fortress.

*=bastillé=, =-e=, _adj._, (her.) having inverted battlements.

=bastingage=, _n.m._, (nav.) barricading, netting.

=bastingue= (-ghe), _n.f._, quarter-netting.

=bastinguer=, _v.a._, (nav.) to barricade.

_se_ =bastinguer= (-ghé), _v.r._, (nav.) to barricade, to put up the netting.

=bastion=, _n.m._, bastion.

=bastionné=, =-e= (-tio-né), _adj._, having bastions.

=bastionner=, _v.a._, to bastion, to fortify.

=bastonnade=, _n.f._, bastinade, bastinado, drubbing.

=bastringue= (-ghe), _n.m._, public-house ball; (pop.) uproar, row, shindy.

=bastude=, _n.f._, fishing-net (used in the South).

=bas-ventre=, _n.m._, (_—-—s_) lower part of the abdomen.

☉=bat= (bate), _n.m._, tail of a fish; (nav.) barrel.

=bât= (bā), _n.m._, pack-saddle. _Un cheval de —_; a pack-horse; (fig.) stupid person. _Vous ne savez pas où le — le blesse_; you know not where the shoe pinches him.

=bataclan=, _n.m._, uproar, row, shindy. _Et tout le —_; and the rest of it.

*=bataille=, _n.f._, battle, fight, engagement; battle array; beggar-my-neighbor. _— rangée_; pitched battle. _Ranger une armée en —_; to draw up an army in battle-array. _Cheval de —_; war-horse. _Livrer —_, or _donner —_; to give battle. _Livrer — pour quelqu’un_; to take up the cudgels for any one. _C’est son cheval de —_; it is his sheet-anchor _or_ stronghold.

*=batailler=, _v.n._, to battle, to fight; to struggle hard.

*=batailleu-r=, =-se=, _adj._, combative, pugnacious, quarrelsome; disputatious.

*=bataillon=, _n.m._, battalion; (fig.) great number, host, regiment. _—s_, _pl._, army. _Chef de —_; major.

=bâtard=, =-e=, _adj._, bastard, base-born, illegitimate, spurious; mongrel; inclined (of writing). _Chien —_; mongrel. _Fruits —s_; spurious fruits. _Porte —e_; small gateway.

=bâtard=, _n.m._, =-e=, _n.f._, bastard, natural child.

=batardeau=, _n.m._, coffer-dam.

=bâtardière=, _n.f._, nursery of grafted trees.

=bâtardise=, _n.f._, bastardy, spuriousness.

☉=batate= (bot.). _V._ =patate=.

=batavique=, _adj._ _V._ =larme=.

=batayole=, _n.f._, (nav.) stanchion.

=bâté=, =-e=, _part._, saddled with a pack. _Il n’y a point d’âne plus mal — que celui du commun_; what is everybody’s business is always badly done.