 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 216 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 578 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 510 páginas
...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... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 456 páginas
...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... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 páginas
...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... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1840 - 768 páginas
...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... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1840 - 756 páginas
...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... | |
 | Alexander Dyce - 1843 - 350 páginas
...? 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... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - 1846 - 640 páginas
...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... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1847 - 518 páginas
...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... | |
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Add. MSS. 28,566, fol. 23 b. In the edition of Nares' Glossary by Halliwell and Wright, ' bases ' is explained as ' a kind of embroidered mantle which hung down from the middle to about the knees or lower, worn by knights on horseback. 
