Baste

·vt To mark with tar, as sheep.

II. Baste ·vt To beat with a stick; to Cudgel.

III. Baste ·vt To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.

IV. Baste ·vt To sew loosely, or with long stitches;

— usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.