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▪ I. bask, v.|bɑːsk, -æ-|
Also 4–6 baske.
[app. for earlier *bathask, a. ON. baðask, in later Icel. baðast to bathe oneself, refl. of baða to bathe. (With loss of th cf. or from other, sou' west, etc.)]
†1. intr. (also refl., and with pa. pple. quasi-trans.) To bathe, especially in warm water or liquid, and so transf. to be suffused with, or swim in, blood, etc. Obs.
1393Gower Conf. I. 290 The child lay bathend in her blood..And for the blood was hote and warme He basketh him about therinne. 1430Lydg. Chron. Troy v. xxxvii, Seynge his brother baskynge in his bloud. c1525Skelton Replyc. Wks. I. 209 Basked and baththed in their wylde burblyng..blode. 1530Palsgr. 444/1, I baske, I bathe in water or any lycour, Je baigne (Lydgate).
2. trans. To expose to a flood of warmth, to suffuse with genial warmth. (Cf. to bathe in sunshine.) Chiefly refl.; = 3.
1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. vii. 15 A foole, Who laid him downe, and bask'd him in the Sun. 1632Milton Allegro 110 The lubbar fiend..Basks at the fire his hairy strength. 1678Wycherley Pl.-Dealer i. i. 3 To go..and bask himself on the sunny side of the Globe. 1691Ray Creation i. (1704) 163 Other Birds bask themselves in the Dust. 1725Pope Odyss. iv. 542 The seer..Basks on the breezy shore..His oozy limbs.
3. intr. To expose oneself to, or disport oneself in, an ambient flood of genial warmth, as in the sunshine, the rays of a fire; to lie enjoying the heat which radiates upon one.
1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 473 Where basking in the Sun-shine they may lye. 1718Pope Iliad iii. 198 Antenor..Lean'd on the walls, and bask'd before the sun. 1819S. Rogers Hum. Life 15 Basking in the chimney's ample blaze. 1841Borrow Zincali I. iv. i. 76 The swarthy children basked naked in the sun. 1873G. C. Davies Mount. & Mere xiv. 109 A large pike was basking over the weeds.
b. fig. of the ‘sunshine’ of love, favour, prosperity.
1647Cowley Mistr., Change i, Love in her Sunny eyes does basking play. 1791Burke Let. Memb. Assembly Wks. VI. 27 Basking in the sunshine of unmerited fortune. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) I. v. 382 Traitors basking in the royal smiles.
▪ II. bask, n. rare.|bɑːsk, -æ-|
[f. prec. vb.]
a. A ‘bath’ or suffusion of genial warmth.
1790T. Wilkinson Memoirs I. 239 However, that bask of sunshine did not last. 1847Stoddart Angler's Compan. 308 Pike..when on the bask, or in sunning humour, distribute themselves along the margin..of floating weeds. 1876Mrs. Whitney Sights & Ins. II. xxxvi. 654 A perfect bask of sunshine lying over it.
b. fig. The ‘sunshine’ or ‘warmth’ (of favour, popularity, etc.).
1762H. Walpole in Vertue Anecdotes of Painting I. p. ix, Milton and Fontaine did not write in the bask of court-favour. 1779― Let. 16 Sept. (1904) 26 Lord Temple..had grown up in the bask of Lord Chatham's glory.
▪ III. † bask, a. Obs. or dial.
Forms: 3 beȝȝsc, 4–5 baisk(e, 4–6 bask.
[a. ON. beisk bitter, acrid; hence the etymological form is baisk.]
Bitter, acrid, ungrateful or irritating to the senses.
c1200Ormin 6698 Itt iss full bitterr & full beȝȝsc. c1300MS. Cott. Faust. B. vi. f. 123 b, The froite..is soure And baiske and bittere of odoure. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. (1871) III. 42 Pride and covetise..ben bask or bittir synnes. a1550Clapperton Wa Worth Maryage, Of boure-bourding baith bask and bair. 1808Jamieson s.v., ‘A bask day,’ a day distinguished by drought with a withering wind (Dumfriesshire). |