basking

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of bask

noun

1. The act of one who basks.

   “With no lectures given or heard, no pups offered and ignored or contemptuously rejected by telegraph, no snatches at conversation in the midst of crowds, no baskings on the lawn at Bryn Mawr, no nothing at all, in short […]”