BPage 48
- English Word Base Definition The bottom of anything, considered as its support, or that on which something rests for support; the foundation; as, the base of a statue.
- English Word Base Definition Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the essential principle; a groundwork.
- English Word Base Definition The lower part of a wall, pier, or column, when treated as a separate feature, usually in projection, or especially ornamented.
- English Word Base Definition The lower part of a complete architectural design, as of a monument; also, the lower part of any elaborate piece of furniture or decoration.
- English Word Base Definition That extremity of a leaf, fruit, etc., at which it is attached to its support.
- English Word Base Definition 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.
- English Word Base Definition The chief ingredient in a compound.
- English Word Base Definition A substance used as a mordant.
- English Word Base Definition The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions.
- English Word Base Definition The line or surface constituting that part of a figure on which it is supposed to stand.
- English Word Base Definition The number from which a mathematical table is constructed; as, the base of a system of logarithms.
- English Word Base Definition A low, or deep, sound. (Mus.) (a) The lowest part; the deepest male voice. (b) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, base.
- English Word Base Definition 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.
- English Word Base Definition The smallest kind of cannon.
- English Word Base Definition That part of an organ by which it is attached to another more central organ.
- English Word Base Definition The basal plane of a crystal.
- English Word Base Definition The ground mass of a rock, especially if not distinctly crystalline.
- English Word Base Definition The lower part of the field. See Escutcheon.
- English Word Base Definition The housing of a horse.
- English Word Base Definition 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.
- English Word Base Definition The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
- English Word Base Definition An apron.
- English Word Base Definition The point or line from which a start is made; a starting place or a goal in various games.
- English Word Base Definition 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.
- English Word Base Definition A rustic play; -- called also prisoner's base, prison base, or bars.
- English Word Base Definition Any one of the four bounds which mark the circuit of the infield.
- English Word Base Definition To put on a base or basis; to lay the foundation of; to found, as an argument or conclusion; -- used with on or upon.
- English Word Base Definition To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower.
- English Word Base Definition To reduce the value of; to debase.
- English Word Base viol Definition See Bass viol.