basking
noun
- take pleasure in
Wiktionary
noun
- 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 […]”
verb
- present participle and gerund of bask