Basan (n.) Same as Basil, a sheepskin.
Basanite (n.) Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal.
Basbleu (n.) A bluestocking; a literary woman.
Bascinet (n.) A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a visor.
Bascule (n.) In mechanics an apparatus on the principle of the seesaw, in which one end rises as the other falls.
Base (a.) Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.
Base (a.) Low in place or position.
Base (a.) Of humble birth; or low degree; lowly; mean.
Base (a.) Illegitimate by birth; bastard.
Base (a.) Of little comparative value, as metal inferior to gold and silver, the precious metals.
Base (a.) Alloyed with inferior metal; debased; as, base coin; base bullion.
Base (a.) Morally low. Hence: Low-minded; unworthy; without dignity of sentiment; ignoble; mean; illiberal; menial; as, a base fellow; base motives; base occupations.
Base (a.) Not classical or correct.
Base (a.) Deep or grave in sound; as, the base tone of a violin.
Base (a.) Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant.
Base (n.) The bottom of anything, considered as its support, or that on which something rests for support; the foundation; as, the base of a statue.
Base (n.) Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the essential principle; a groundwork.
Base (n.) The lower part of a wall, pier, or column, when treated as a separate feature, usually in projection, or especially ornamented.
Base (n.) The lower part of a complete architectural design, as of a monument; also, the lower part of any elaborate piece of furniture or decoration.
Base (n.) That extremity of a leaf, fruit, etc., at which it is attached to its support.
Base (n.) The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; -- applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids.
Base (n.) The chief ingredient in a compound.
Base (n.) A substance used as a mordant.
Base (n.) The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions.
Base (n.) The line or surface constituting that part of a figure on which it is supposed to stand.
Base (n.) The number from which a mathematical table is constructed; as, the base of a system of logarithms.
Base (n.) A low, or deep, sound. (Mus.) (a) The lowest part; the deepest male voice. (b) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, base.
Base (n.) A place or tract of country, protected by fortifications, or by natural advantages, from which the operations of an army proceed, forward movements are made, supplies are furnished, etc.
Base (n.) The smallest kind of cannon.
Base (n.) That part of an organ by which it is attached to another more central organ.
Base (n.) The basal plane of a crystal.
Base (n.) The ground mass of a rock, especially if not distinctly crystalline.
Base (n.) The lower part of the field. See Escutcheon.
Base (n.) The housing of a horse.
Base (n.) A kind of skirt ( often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armor) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
Base (n.) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
Base (n.) An apron.
Base (n.) The point or line from which a start is made; a starting place or a goal in various games.
Base (n.) A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
Base (n.) A rustic play; -- called also prisoner's base, prison base, or bars.
Base (n.) Any one of the four bounds which mark the circuit of the infield.
Based (imp. & p. p.) of Base
Basing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Base
Base (n.) To put on a base or basis; to lay the foundation of; to found, as an argument or conclusion; -- used with on or upon.
Base (a.) To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower.
Base (a.) To reduce the value of; to debase.
Baseball (n.) A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds ( four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striking the ball.
Baseball (n.) The ball used in this game.
Baseboard (n.) A board, or other woodwork, carried round the walls of a room and touching the floor, to form a base and protect the plastering; -- also called washboard (in England), mopboard, and scrubboard.
Baseborn (a.) Born out of wedlock.
Baseborn (a.) Born of low parentage.
Baseborn (a.) Vile; mean.
Base-burner (n.) A furnace or stove in which the fuel is contained in a hopper or chamber, and is fed to the fire as the lower stratum is consumed.
Base-court (n.) The secondary, inferior, or rear courtyard of a large house; the outer court of a castle.
Base-court (n.) An inferior court of law, not of record.
Based (a.) Having a base, or having as a base; supported; as, broad-based.
Based (n.) Wearing, or protected by, bases.
Basedow's disease () A disease characterized by enlargement of the thyroid gland, prominence of the eyeballs, and inordinate action of the heart; -- called also exophthalmic goiter.
Baselard (n.) A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century.
Baseless (a.) Without a base; having no foundation or support.
Basely (adv.) In a base manner; with despicable meanness; dishonorably; shamefully.
Basely (adv.) Illegitimately; in bastardy.
Basement (a.) The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively.
Baseness (n.) The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness.
Basenet (n.) See Bascinet.
Base viol () See Bass viol.
Bash (v. t. & i.) To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.
Bashaw (n.) A Turkish title of honor, now written pasha. See Pasha.
Bashaw (n.) Fig.: A magnate or grandee.
Bashaw (n.) A very large siluroid fish (Leptops olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; -- also called goujon, mud cat, and yellow cat.
Bashful (a.) Abashed; daunted; dismayed.
Bashful (a.) Very modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression.
Bashfully (adv.) In a bashful manner.
Bashfulness (n.) The quality of being bashful.
Bashi-bazouk (n.) A soldier belonging to the irregular troops of the Turkish army.
Bashless (a.) Shameless; unblushing.
Bashyle (n.) See Basyle.
Basi- () A combining form, especially in anatomical and botanical words, to indicate the base or position at or near a base; forming a base; as, basibranchials, the most ventral of the cartilages or bones of the branchial arches; basicranial, situated at the base of the cranium; basifacial, basitemporal, etc.
Basic (a.) Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.
Basic (a.) Having the base in excess, or the amount of the base atomically greater than that of the acid, or exceeding in proportion that of the related neutral salt.
Basic (a.) Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.
Basic (a.) Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.
Basicerite (n.) The second joint of the antennae of crustaceans.
Basicity (n.) The quality or state of being a base.
Basicity (n.) The power of an acid to unite with one or more atoms or equivalents of a base, as indicated by the number of replaceable hydrogen atoms contained in the acid.
Basidiospore (n.) A spore borne by a basidium.
Basidium (n.) A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example.
Basifier (n.) That which converts into a salifiable base.
Basifugal (n.) Tending or proceeding away from the base; as, a basifugal growth.
Basify (v. t.) To convert into a salifiable base.
Basigynium (n.) The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.
Basihyal (a.) Noting two small bones, forming the body of the inverted hyoid arch.
Basihyoid (n.) The central tongue bone.
Basil (n.) The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground.
Basiled (imp. & p. p.) of Basil
Basiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Basil
Basil (v. t.) To grind or form the edge of to an angle.
Basil (n.) The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum basilicum), and the bush basil, or lesser basil (O. minimum), the leaves of which are used in cookery. The name is also given to several kinds of mountain mint (Pycnanthemum).
Basil (n.) The skin of a sheep tanned with bark.
Basilar (n.) Alt. of Basilary