BPage 52
- English Word Basis Definition The pedestal of a column, pillar, or statue.
- English Word Basis Definition The ground work the first or fundamental principle; that which supports.
- English Word Basis Definition The principal component part of a thing.
- English Word Basisolute Definition Prolonged at the base, as certain leaves.
- English Word Basisphenoid Definition Alt. of Basisphenoidal
- English Word Basisphenoid Definition The basisphenoid bone.
- English Word Basisphenoidal Definition Of or pertaining to that part of the base of the cranium between the basioccipital and the presphenoid, which usually ossifies separately in the embryo or in the young, and becomes a part of the sphenoid in the adult.
- English Word Bask Definition To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat.
- English Word Bask Definition To warm by continued exposure to heat; to warm with genial heat.
- English Word Basked Definition of Bask
- English Word Basket Definition A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven.
- English Word Basket Definition The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches.
- English Word Basket Definition The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
- English Word Basket Definition The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach.
- English Word Basket Definition To put into a basket.
- English Word Basketful Definition As much as a basket will contain.
- English Word Basketfuls Definition of Basketful
- English Word Basketry Definition The art of making baskets; also, baskets, taken collectively.
- English Word Basking Definition of Bask
- English Word Basking shark Definition One of the largest species of sharks (Cetorhinus maximus), so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver shark, or bone shark. It inhabits the northern seas of Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a harmless species.
- English Word Basnet Definition Same as Bascinet.
- English Word Basommatophora Definition A group of Pulmonifera having the eyes at the base of the tentacles, including the common pond snails.
- English Word Bason Definition A basin.
- English Word Basque Definition Pertaining to Biscay, its people, or their language.
- English Word Basque Definition One of a race, of unknown origin, inhabiting a region on the Bay of Biscay in Spain and France.
- English Word Basque Definition The language spoken by the Basque people.
- English Word Basque Definition A part of a lady's dress, resembling a jacket with a short skirt; -- probably so called because this fashion of dress came from the Basques.
- English Word Basquish Definition Pertaining to the country, people, or language of Biscay; Basque
- English Word Bass Definition of Bass
- English Word Bass Definition An edible, spiny-finned fish, esp. of the genera Roccus, Labrax, and related genera. There are many species.