BPage 71
- English Word Base Definition Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.
- English Word Base Definition Low in place or position.
- English Word Base Definition Of humble birth; or low degree; lowly; mean.
- English Word Base Definition Illegitimate by birth; bastard.
- English Word Base Definition Of little comparative value, as metal inferior to gold and silver, the precious metals.
- English Word Base Definition Alloyed with inferior metal; debased; as, base coin; base bullion.
- English Word Base Definition Morally low. Hence: Low-minded; unworthy; without dignity of sentiment; ignoble; mean; illiberal; menial; as, a base fellow; base motives; base occupations.
- English Word Base Definition Not classical or correct.
- English Word Base Definition Deep or grave in sound; as, the base tone of a violin.
- English Word Base Definition Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant.
- 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.