Definition of Basking

1. Verb. (present participle of bask) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Basking

1. bask [v] - See also: bask

Lexicographical Neighbors of Basking

basketmakers
basketries
basketry
baskets
basketsful
basketweave
basketweaver
basketweavers
basketweaving
basketwork
basketworks
basketworm
basketworms
baskimo
baskimos
basking (current term)
basking shark
basking sharks
basks
baskt
basmati
basmatis
basnet
basnets
baso-
basoche
basoches
basocyte
basocytopenia
basocytosis

Literary usage of Basking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Golden Poems by British and American Authors by Francis Fisher Browne (1906)
"basking WHEEL me into the sunshine, Wheel me into the shadow; ... My soul lies out like a basking hound — A hound that dreams and dozes ; Along my life my ..."

2. Farthest North: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship by Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Neumann Sverdrup (1898)
"THE DOGS basking IN THE SUN (JUNE 13, 1894) (/>•?« a Photograph) Every now and then they set up a chorus of howls that certainly must be heard in Siberia, ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... Macopin, basking Ridge, Trenton, Ringwood, and other places. The settlement at Macopin (now Echo Lake) was made by some German Catholics sometime before ..."

4. Collected Plays and Poems by Cale Young Rice (1915)
"basking Give me a spot in the sun, With the lizard basking by me, In Sicily, over the sea, Where Winter is sweet as Spring, Where Etna lifts his plume Of ..."

5. The Library of American Biography by Jared Sparks (1846)
"... at basking- ridge. — Manoeuvres of Sir William Howe. — American Army marches to the Head of Elk. — Battles of the Brandywine and German- town. ..."

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