These are the meanings of the letters BEPATS when you unscramble them.
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Baste (v. t.)
To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
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Baste (v. t.)
To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
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Baste (v. t.)
To mark with tar, as sheep.
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Baste (v. t.)
To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.
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Beast (n.)
Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.
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Beast (n.)
Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden.
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Beast (n.)
As opposed to man: Any irrational animal.
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Beast (n.)
Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow.
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Beast (n.)
A game at cards similar to loo.
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Beast (n.)
A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc.
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Paste (n.)
A soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or milk, or of earth moistened to the consistence of dough, as in making potter's ware.
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Paste (n.)
Specifically, in cookery, a dough prepared for the crust of pies and the like; pastry dough.
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Paste (n.)
A kind of cement made of flour and water, starch and water, or the like, -- used for uniting paper or other substances, as in bookbinding, etc., -- also used in calico printing as a vehicle for mordant or color.
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Paste (n.)
A highly refractive vitreous composition, variously colored, used in making imitations of precious stones or gems. See Strass.
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Paste (n.)
A soft confection made of the inspissated juice of fruit, licorice, or the like, with sugar, etc.
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Paste (n.)
The mineral substance in which other minerals are imbedded.
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Paste (v. t.)
To unite with paste; to fasten or join by means of paste.
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Septa (pl. )
of Septum
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Spate (n.)
A river flood; an overflow or inundation.
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Tabes (n.)
Progressive emaciation of the body, accompained with hectic fever, with no well-marked logical symptoms.