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- English Word Base-burner Definition 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.
- English Word Base-court Definition The secondary, inferior, or rear courtyard of a large house; the outer court of a castle.
- English Word Base-court Definition An inferior court of law, not of record.
- English Word Baseball Definition 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.
- English Word Baseball Definition The ball used in this game.
- English Word Baseboard Definition 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.
- English Word Baseborn Definition Born out of wedlock.
- English Word Baseborn Definition Born of low parentage.
- English Word Baseborn Definition Vile; mean.
- English Word Based Definition of Base
- English Word Based Definition Having a base, or having as a base; supported; as, broad-based.
- English Word Based Definition Wearing, or protected by, bases.
- English Word Basedow's disease Definition A disease characterized by enlargement of the thyroid gland, prominence of the eyeballs, and inordinate action of the heart; -- called also exophthalmic goiter.
- English Word Baselard Definition A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century.
- English Word Baseless Definition Without a base; having no foundation or support.
- English Word Basely Definition In a base manner; with despicable meanness; dishonorably; shamefully.
- English Word Basely Definition Illegitimately; in bastardy.
- English Word Basement Definition 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.
- English Word Baseness Definition The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness.
- English Word Basenet Definition See Bascinet.
- English Word Bases Definition of Basis
- English Word Bash Definition To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.
- English Word Bashaw Definition A Turkish title of honor, now written pasha. See Pasha.
- English Word Bashaw Definition Fig.: A magnate or grandee.
- English Word Bashaw Definition A very large siluroid fish (Leptops olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; -- also called goujon, mud cat, and yellow cat.
- English Word Bashful Definition Abashed; daunted; dismayed.
- English Word Bashful Definition Very modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression.
- English Word Bashfully Definition In a bashful manner.
- English Word Bashfulness Definition The quality of being bashful.
- English Word Bashi-bazouk Definition A soldier belonging to the irregular troops of the Turkish army.