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单词 bask
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baskn.

/bɑːsk//bask/
Etymology: < bask v.
rare.
a. A ‘bath’ or suffusion of genial warmth.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > [noun] > suffusion of genial warmth
bask1790
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > warmth or moderate heat > genial
geniality1782
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1790 T. Wilkinson Mem. Own Life I. 239 However, that bask of sunshine did not last.
1847 T. T. Stoddart Angler's Compan. 308 Pike..when on the bask, or in sunning humour, distribute themselves along the margin..of floating weeds.
1876 A. D. Whitney Sights & Insights II. xxxvi. 654 A perfect bask of sunshine lying over it.
b. figurative. The ‘sunshine’ or ‘warmth’ (of favour, popularity, etc.).
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > [noun] > condition or atmosphere of
sunshine1584
bask1762
sunlight1864
1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting I. Pref. p. ix Milton and Fontaine did not write in the bask of court-favour.
1779 H. Walpole Let. 16 Sept. (1904) 26 Lord Temple..had grown up in the bask of Lord Chatham's glory.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

baskadj.

Forms: Middle English beȝȝsc, Middle English baisk(e, Middle English–1500s bask.
Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse beisk.
Etymology: < Old Norse beisk bitter, acrid; hence the etymological form is baisk.
Obsolete or dialect.
Bitter, acrid, ungrateful or irritating to the senses.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sourness or acidity > [adjective] > bitter
baskc1175
to do amerec1400
fell?c1425
gallyc1530
rhubarba1586
bitterish1605
acrimonious1617
acrid1633
rodent1633
absinthiana1635
gallish1648
acroamare1657
absinthiala1857
absinthine1862
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6698 Itt iss full bitterr. & full beȝȝsc.
?c1300 MS. Cott. Faust. B. vi. f. 123 b The froite..is soure And baiske and bittere of odoure.
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. (1871) III. 42 Pride and covetise..ben bask or bittir synnes.
a1550 Clapperton Wa Worth Maryage Of boure-bourding baith bask and bair.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (at cited word) ‘A bask day,’ a day distinguished by drought with a withering wind (Dumfriesshire).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

baskv.

/bɑːsk//bask/
Forms: Also Middle English–1500s baske.
Origin: Apparently a borrowing from early Scandinavian.
Etymology: apparently for earlier *bathask, < Old Norse baðask, in later Icelandic baðast to bathe oneself, reflexive of baða to bathe. (With loss of th compare or < other, sou' west, etc.)
1. intransitive also reflexive, and with past participle quasi-transitive) To bathe, especially in warm water or liquid, and so transferred to be suffused with, or swim in, blood, etc. Obsolete.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action or process of immersing or dipping > immerse or dip [verb (intransitive)]
bathec1200
washa1382
dipa1387
bask1393
swelter1595
laver1607
dap1886
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 290 The child lay bathend in her blood..And for the blood was hote and warme He basketh him about therinne.
1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy v. xxxvii Seynge his brother baskynge in his bloud.
1528 J. Skelton Honorificatissimo: Replycacion agaynst Yong Scolers sig. Aiiv Basked and baththed in their wylde burblyng..blode.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 444/1 I baske, I bathe in water or any lycour, Je baigne (Lydgate).
2. transitive. To expose to a flood of warmth, to suffuse with genial warmth. (Cf. bathe v. 4a.) Chiefly reflexive; = 3.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > subject or expose to heat or fire [verb (transitive)] > to genial warmth
beekc1230
baska1616
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > subject or expose to heat or fire [verb (reflexive)] > to genial warmth
beekc1230
summer1568
baska1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 15 A foole, Who laid him downe, and bask'd him in the Sun. View more context for this quotation
1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 35 The Lubbar Fend..Basks at the fire his hairy strength.
1678 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer (ed. 2) i. i. 3 To go..and bask himself on the sunny side of the Globe.
1701 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 3) i. 157 Other Birds bask themselves in the Dust.
1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 542 The Seer..Basks on the breezy shore..His oozy limbs.
3.
a. intransitive. 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.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > be comfortable or easy [verb (intransitive)] > expose oneself to genial warmth
summer1568
bask1694
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > subjection or exposure to heat or fire > be subjected or exposed to heat or fire [verb (intransitive)] > bask in genial warmth
beekc1400
summer1568
toast1614
bask1694
1694 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in Ann. Misc. 33 Where basking in the Sun-shine they may lye.
1715 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. iii. 198 Antenor..Lean'd on the Walls, and bask'd before the Sun.
1819 S. Rogers Human Life 8 Basking in the chimney's ample blaze.
1841 G. Borrow Zincali I. i. iv. 76 The swarthy children basked naked in the sun.
1873 G. C. Davies Mountain, Meadow & Mere xiv. 109 A large pike was basking over the weeds.
b. figurative of the ‘sunshine’ of love, favour, prosperity.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > be happy [verb (intransitive)]
fleet1598
bask1647
1647 A. Cowley Change in Mistress i Love in her Sunny eyes does basking play.
1791 E. Burke Let. to Member National Assembly in Wks. (1823) VI. 27 Basking in the sunshine of unmerited fortune.
1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. v. 420 Traitors basking in the smiles.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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