To spoon or pour liquid over meat or poultry while cooking. Continuous basting adds flavour and prevents meat from drying out.

To add moisture, flavor and color to foods by brushing, drizzling or spooning pan juices or other liquids over the food at various times during the cooking process. This is especially essential when cooking with dry heat, such as oven roasting or grilling.

to moisten foods during cooking with drippings, water or seasoned sauce, to prevent drying or to add flavor.

To brush food during cooking with melted butter or liquid such as stock in order to add flavor and color and to keep meats, etc., from drying out.

To brush or spoon pan drippings or other fat or liquid over food, to keep the surface moist and to add flavor.

to moisten with pan juices, marinade, or other liquid during roasting or broiling.

to brush, drizzle or spoon food with melted fat or the cooking juices as it cooks with the purpose of adding moisture, flavor and/or color ... more on baste here

To baste meat while it is cooking, remove the pan from the oven using oven mitts. With a spoon or baster, take a small amount of the liquid from the bottom of the pan and pour it over the top to keep the meat moist while cooking.

Spoon liquid over food (pan juices over turkey) during cooking to keep it moist.

To pour a fat or liquid over food before and/or while it is cooking to add moistness and to keep it from drying out and burning.

Pouring, Brushing or0 Spooning Liquid, Fat or Drippings on to the Surface of Cooking, Particularly Roasting Food.

Moisten while cooking with a sauce or, in the case of meat, its own juices. Small brushes are made especially for this job, but a spoon will do.

To spoon over hot fat or liquid whilst cooking.

to moisten food during cooking by spooning liquid over, or by brushing with liquid

To spoon or brush melted fat, meat drippings or stock over food to keep it moist and add flavour during cooking.

To moisten meat or other foods with pan drippings, fruit juice or a sauce. Prevents drying of food surface and adds flavour.

Moisten food as it cooks by brushing liquid, juice, vegetable oil, sauce or pan drippings over food to add flavour and prevent it from drying out.

To brush or spoon drippings or a prepared mixture over food intermittently as it cooks. This adds to the flavor, provides color or glaze, and helps prevent food from drying out.

To spoon or brush food as it cooks with melted butter, meat drippings or liquid such as stock.

moisten food with a sauce or pan drippings while cooking.

to keep food moist during cooking by spooning, brushing, or drizzling with a sauce.

cover with liquid before cooking; "baste a roast"

To pour, spoon or brush a liquid (usually meat drippings, stock or fat) on food while it is cooking, to add flavour and prevent drying out.

To spoon liquid over food as it cooks. The liquid may be drippings from the food itself.

moisten meat by pouring its own gravy or fat over.

To spoon hot fat / liquid over food as it cooks.

To moisten with marinade or with pan juices during broiling or roasting.

To spoon the melted fat or cooking juices from the bottom of the dish over the item that is being cooked. Basting prevents foods from drying out and adds color and flavor.

to spoon juices over food while they are cooking in order to prevent them from drying out.

To pour drippings, fat, or stock over food while cooking.

To pour hot liquid fat a little at a time, while roasting meat or poultry to keep the flesh moist.

To spoon or brush cooking juices, marinade or other liquids over food during cooking to add flavor and prevent dryness.

To coat a food with pan drippings, butter or sauces during cooking to help retain moisture and add flavor. Sauces may be spooned, squirted (as with a bulb baster), mopped or brushed over the food.

To spread, brush or spoon water, melted fat or other liquid, such as chicken broth, over food to keep the surface moist and add flavor.

To moisten meat with a liquid while cooking to add flavor and to prevent drying of the surface.

To moisten foods during cooking with pan drippings or special sauce to add flavor and prevent drying.

To spoon or brush a liquid, (often fat, pan juices or marinades) over foods as they cook to add flavour or moisture.

To brush or spoon food as it cooks with melted fat or the cooking juices from the dish. Basting prevents foods from drying out and adds color and flavor.

To periodically spoon liquid, usually juice that has been released from meat, over meat while it is roasting.

to spoon hot fat over food during cooking.

To keep food moist during cooking by brushing, drizzling or spooning with pan juice or sauce.

To brush food as it cooks with butter, meat drippings, or stock. Basting keeps baked or roasted foods moist.

To moisten food during cooking by pouring melted fat, stock or liquid over it.

The process of spooning or pouring pan juices over food while it cooks. This promotes moistness and a browned surface.

To spoon pan liquid and/or a sauce over meats while they are roasting to prevent surface from drying.

To moisten food while cooking.

To moisten cooking meat with fat, sauce or natural juices

To ladle or brush food as it cooks with stock, melted butter, meat dripping or other fats. By doing this, it will give the meat additional flavor and color. It also used to prevent the food from drying out.

When you baste, you brush or spoon liquid fat or juices over meat during roasting to give it more flavor and to prevent it from drying out. I like to use the disposable oven roasting bags available at most grocery and discount stores. You put the seasoned meat into the bag, tie it and place it into a roasting pan. You need to poke the bag with a fork a few times so that some of the steam can get out. A roasting pan with a lid also works well. Or the old fashioned way of just simply ladling juice from the bottom of the pan onto the top of the meat.

To dream of basting meats while cooking, denotes you will undermine your own expectations by folly and selfishness. For a woman to baste her sewing, omens much vacation owing to her extravagance.

to moisten the food as it cooks by spooning or brushing it at regular intervals with a liquid such as melted fat, meat drippings, fruit juice, sauce or water. This is done to add flavor and color to the food and to prevent drying of the surface.

Verb: To temporarily affix one piece of fabric to another, usually with long, easily removed stitches. Basting is often used to make a test seam so that you may examine the appearance of the seam to ensure that it appears correct before sewing a permanent seam, or for holding the fabric in place while a seam is sewn elsewhere.

To sew with long loose stitches in order to hold something in place temporarily

to make temporary stitches

A method of securing the layers of your quilt together using large loose stitches. You can also do what is called pin basting, which is done by securing the layers together with small safety pins.

loose temporary stitches

sew together loosely, with large stitches; "baste a hem"

Large stitches used to temporarily hold fabric together which are easily removed.

To hold pieces of fabric together temporarily with long, loose stitches, usually made by using the longest stitch length on your sewing machine; basting may be used as a guide for permanent stitches and removed after stitching permanently.