1. [n]  a vigorous blow; "the sudden knock floored him"; "he took a bash right in his face"; "he got a bang on the head"
2. [n]  an uproarious party
3. [v]  hit hard

Bash
Three thematically connected plays make up this often dark piece, which investigates the power of myths both ancient and contemporary. In the first two plays, elements from Greek tragedies are recast in a modern, Mormon setting; in the third, the myths of Mormonism itself are examined.

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1. \Bash\, v. t. & i. [OE. baschen, baissen. See {Abash}.]
   To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of
   countenance. [Obs.]
         His countenance was bold and bashed not. --Spenser.
   

2. \Bash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bashed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Bashing}.] [Perh. of imitative origin; or cf. Dan. baske to
   strike, bask a blow, Sw. basa to beat, bas a beating.]
   To strike heavily; to beat; to crush. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
   --Hall Caine.
         Bash her open with a rock.               --Kipling.
   

Bourne Again SHell. GNU's command interpreter for Unix. Bash is a Posix-compatible shell with full Bourne shell syntax, and some C shell commands built in. The Bourne Again Shell supports Emacs-style command-line editing, job control, functions, and on-line help. Written by Brian Fox of UCSB.

The latest version is 1.14.1. It includes a yacc parser, the interpreter and documentation.

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