BASTON
\bˈastən], \bˈastən], \b_ˈa_s_t_ə_n]\
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A staff or cudgel.
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An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court.
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A staff or cudgel.
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An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court.
By Noah Webster.
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In old English law, a baton, club, or staff. A term applied to officers of the wardens of the prison called the "Fleet," because of the staff carried by them. Cowell; Spelman; Termes de la Ley.
By Henry Campbell Black
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).