the military art, in French corbeillers, are placed on the parapet of a trench, 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 ten inches at bottom; so that, being set together, there is a sort of embrasures left at their bottoms, through which the soldiers fire, without exposing themselves.

Basket-Fish, a species of sea-star. See Asteroidea.

Basket-Salt, that made from salt-springs; being purer, whiter, and composed of finer grains than the common brine-salt. See Salt.

Basking-shark, or Sun-Fish of the Irish. See Squalus.