...to bid the base, to challenge to a contest. TG. 1,2. VA. with Malone XV. p. 31. Bases, plur. noun, a kind of embroidered mantle which hung down from...the knees, or lower, worn by knights on horseback. P. 2, 1. Sometimes bases denoted the hose merely. Douce 111. of Sh. II, 125. derives it from the french...

...been a kind of loose breeches ; or, as Mr. Archdeacon Nares thinks, a kind of embroidered jiiiini I" which hung down from the middle to about the knees or lower, and worn by knights on horseback. See his " Glossary," II ii. 1882. 3 the triumph ?] A triumph, in...

...Thai. It pleaseth you, my father, to express My commendations great, whose merit's less. « .bases,] ie A kind of embroidered mantle which hung down from the middle to about the knees or lower, and worn by knights on horseback.— NARES' Glouary. f the triumph ?] ie In the language of Shakspeare's...

...armour which warriors wore on their hands, and lower part of their arms. [Bases, a mantle which hung from the middle to about the knees or lower, worn by knights on horseback.] His apron reached the ground, and is therefore called bases. voL. I. K And round blunt truncheon by...

...armour which warriors wore on their hands, and lower part of their arms. [Bases, a mantle which hung from the middle to about the knees or lower, worn by knights on horseback.] His apron reached the ground, and is therefore called bases. 130 HUDIBRAS. [PART i. And round blunt...

...ended" Bate* i your petticoat serves for base* to this warrior, {" The Picture." act ii. scene 1.), a kind of embroidered mantle, which hung down from...the knees, or lower, worn by knights on horseback Basket, the ,- Go to the basket, and repent, (" The Fatal Dowry." act т. eoeno l.)t the basket in...

...warrior, (" The Picture," act Ü. scene 1.), a kind of embroidered mantle, which hung down frum tho middle to about the knees, or lower, worn by knights on horseback Batket, the .- Go to the basket, and repent, t" The Fatal Dowry," act v. scene 1.), the basket in which...

...? The word is rightly explained by Nares, " a kind of embroidered mantle which hung down from about the middle to about the knees or lower, worn by knights on horseback :" see Gloss, in v. SCENE 4.— C. p. 305 ; K. p. 81. " Hel. Try honour's cause ; forbear your suffrages...

...twisted or ornamentally enwreathed handle, as well as a " sylver schape." BASES. According to Narcs, " a kind of embroidered mantle, which hung down from...the knees, or lower, worn by knights on horseback." The shirts of the dress were also so termed ; for in an inventory of Henry VIII. 's apparel, Harleian...

...Sjienscr. BASE-RING. The ring of a cannon next behind the touch-hole. BASES. Defined by Nares to be, " a kind of embroidered mantle which hung down from...the knees or lower, worn by knights on horseback." Writers of the seventeenth century seem occasionally to apply the term to any kind of skirts, and sometimes...