Definitions for baste

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Spelling: [beyst]

IPA: /beɪst/

Baste is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 91 anagrams from letters in baste (abest).

Definitions for baste

noun

1. liquid used to moisten and flavor food during cooking:

verb (used with object)

1. to sew with long, loose stitches, as in temporarily tacking together pieces of a garment while it is being made.
2. to moisten (meat or other food) while cooking, with drippings, butter, etc.
3. to beat with a stick; thrash; cudgel.
4. to denounce or scold vigorously:

Origin of baste

1400-50; late Middle English basten Anglo-French, Middle French bastir to build, baste Germanic; compare Old High German bestan to mend, patch for *bastian to bring together with bast thread

Examples for baste

Here Paddy was questioned why he considered the wren as cunning a baste as the fox.

Put it into the oven, and baste it occasionally, while baking, with its own drippings.

The cat is but typical of the qualities attributed to baste.

Lay in the pan in which it is to be roasted some fat pork to baste it.

When the first basting is dry, baste it again, and repeat this till the bird is nicely crusted over, and sufficiently done.

If you baste it with any thing else, or with its own dripping, the skin will not be crisp.

Repeat this frequently while it is roasting; after a while you can baste it with its own fat.

To baste it with its own dripping will make the skin tough and hard.

baste it at first with a little salt and water, and then with its own drippings.

baste it at first with a little salt and water, and then with its own gravy.