BPage 51
- English Word Basilica Definition A building used by the Romans as a place of public meeting, with court rooms, etc., attached.
- English Word Basilica Definition A church building of the earlier centuries of Christianity, the plan of which was taken from the basilica of the Romans. The name is still applied to some churches by way of honorary distinction.
- English Word Basilica Definition A digest of the laws of Justinian, translated from the original Latin into Greek, by order of Basil I., in the ninth century.
- English Word Basilical Definition Royal; kingly; also, basilican.
- English Word Basilical Definition Pertaining to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle vein of the right arm.
- English Word Basilican Definition Of, relating to, or resembling, a basilica; basilical.
- English Word Basilicas Definition of Basilica
- English Word Basilicok Definition The basilisk.
- English Word Basilicon Definition An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance.
- English Word Basiling Definition of Basil
- English Word Basilisk Definition A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice.
- English Word Basilisk Definition A lizard of the genus Basiliscus, belonging to the family Iguanidae.
- English Word Basilisk Definition A large piece of ordnance, so called from its supposed resemblance to the serpent of that name, or from its size.
- English Word Basin Definition A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.
- English Word Basin Definition The quantity contained in a basin.
- English Word Basin Definition A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc.
- English Word Basin Definition A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay.
- English Word Basin Definition A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river.
- English Word Basin Definition The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake.
- English Word Basin Definition An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.
- English Word Basined Definition Inclosed in a basin.
- English Word Basinet Definition Same as Bascinet.
- English Word Basing Definition of Base
- English Word Basioccipital Definition Of or pertaining to the bone in the base of the cranium, frequently forming a part of the occipital in the adult, but usually distinct in the young.
- English Word Basioccipital Definition The basioccipital bone.
- English Word Basion Definition The middle of the anterior margin of the great foramen of the skull.
- English Word Basipodite Definition The basal joint of the legs of Crustacea.
- English Word Basipterygium Definition A bar of cartilage at the base of the embryonic fins of some fishes. It develops into the metapterygium.
- English Word Basipterygoid Definition Applied to a protuberance of the base of the sphenoid bone.
- English Word Basis Definition The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests.