a machine made of twigs interwoven together, in order to hold fruit, earth, &c. It denotes an uncertain quantity; as, a basket of medlars is two bushels, of affa fetida from 20 to 50 pound weight. Baskets of Earth, in the military art, called by the French corbeilles, are small baskets used in sieges, on the parapet of a trench, being filled with earth. They are about a foot and a half high, about a foot and a half in diameter at the top, and 8 or 10 inches at bottom; so that, being set together, there is a sort of embrasures left at their bottoms, thro' which the soldiers fire, without exposing themselves.

Basket-Fish, or Arborecent Sea-star. See Asteroidea.