BPage 50
- English Word Bashless Definition Shameless; unblushing.
- English Word Bashyle Definition See Basyle.
- English Word Basi- Definition 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.
- English Word Basic Definition Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.
- English Word Basic Definition 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.
- English Word Basic Definition Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.
- English Word Basic Definition Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.
- English Word Basicerite Definition The second joint of the antennae of crustaceans.
- English Word Basicity Definition The quality or state of being a base.
- English Word Basicity Definition 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.
- English Word Basidiospore Definition A spore borne by a basidium.
- English Word Basidium Definition 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.
- English Word Basifier Definition That which converts into a salifiable base.
- English Word Basifugal Definition Tending or proceeding away from the base; as, a basifugal growth.
- English Word Basify Definition To convert into a salifiable base.
- English Word Basigynium Definition The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.
- English Word Basihyal Definition Noting two small bones, forming the body of the inverted hyoid arch.
- English Word Basihyoid Definition The central tongue bone.
- English Word Basil Definition The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground.
- English Word Basil Definition To grind or form the edge of to an angle.
- English Word Basil Definition 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).
- English Word Basil Definition The skin of a sheep tanned with bark.
- English Word Basilar Definition Alt. of Basilary
- English Word Basilary Definition Relating to, or situated at, the base.
- English Word Basilary Definition Lower; inferior; applied to impulses or springs of action.
- English Word Basiled Definition of Basil
- English Word Basilic Definition Basilica.
- English Word Basilic Definition Alt. of Basilical
- English Word Basilic/ Definition of Basilica
- English Word Basilica Definition Originally, the place of a king; but afterward, an apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; and hence, any large hall used for this purpose.