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101baste — baste1 /bayst/, v.t., basted, basting. to sew with long, loose stitches, as in temporarily tacking together pieces of a garment while it is being made. [1400 50; late ME basten < AF, MF bastir to build, baste < Gmc; cf. OHG bestan to mend, patch… …
102baster — baster1 /bay steuhr/, n. Sewing. a person or thing that bastes. [1880 85; BASTE1 + ER1] baster2 /bay steuhr/, n. 1. a person who bastes meat or other food. 2. a large glass, plastic, or metal tube with a rubber bulb at one end and a small opening …
103bobèche — /boh besh /, n. a slightly cupped ring placed over the socket of a candleholder to catch the drippings of a candle. [1895 1900; < F, of uncert. orig.; bob perh. akin to the base of bobine BOBBIN] * * * …
104dripping — /drip ing/, n. 1. the act of something that drips. 2. Often, drippings. a. the liquid that drips. b. fat and juices exuded from meat in cooking, used for basting, for making gravy, or as a cooking fat. [1400 50; late ME; see DRIP, ING1] * * * …
105dripping pan — a shallow metal pan used under roasting meat to receive the drippings. Also, drip pan. [1425 75] * * * …
106liquor — liquory, adj. /lik euhr/ or, for 3, /lik wawr/, n. 1. a distilled or spirituous beverage, as brandy or whiskey, as distinguished from a fermented beverage, as wine or beer. 2. any liquid substance, as broth from cooked meats or vegetables. 3.… …
107volcano — /vol kay noh/, n., pl. volcanoes, volcanos. 1. a vent in the earth s crust through which lava, steam, ashes, etc., are expelled, either continuously or at irregular intervals. 2. a mountain or hill, usually having a cuplike crater at the summit,… …
108frying — ▪ cooking the cooking of food in hot fats or oils, usually done with a shallow oil bath in a pan over a fire or as so called deep fat frying, in which the food is completely immersed in a deeper vessel of hot oil. Because the food is heated …
109melorheostosis — ▪ pathology rare disorder of unknown cause in which cortical bone overgrowth occurs along the main axis of a bone in such a way as to resemble candle drippings. Pain is the major symptom, and stiffness and deformity may result. Usually only …
110Baptismal Font — • A basin or vase, serving as a receptacle for baptismal water in which the candidate for baptism is immersed, or over which he is washed, in the ceremony of Christian initiation Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Baptismal Font …
