Basedow''s Disease :: Basedow's disease () A disease characterized by enlargement of the thyroid gland, prominence of the eyeballs, and inordinate action of the heart; -- called also exophthalmic goiter..

Baselard :: Baselard (n.) A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century..

Baseless :: Baseless (a.) Without a base; having no foundation or support.

Basely :: Basely (adv.) In a base manner; with despicable meanness; dishonorably; shamefully.

Basely :: Basely (adv.) Illegitimately; in bastardy.

Basement :: Basement (a.) 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..

Baseness :: Baseness (n.) The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness.

Basenet :: Basenet (n.) See Bascinet.

Bases :: Bases (pl. ) of Basi.

Country-base :: Country-base (n.) Same as Prison base.

Debase :: Debase (a.) To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words..

Debased :: Debased (imp. & p. p.) of Debas.

Debased :: Debased (a.) Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed.

Debasement :: Debasement (n.) The act of debasing or the state of being debased.

Debaser :: Debaser (n.) One who, or that which, debases..

Diabase :: Diabase (n.) A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone..

Disbase :: Disbase (v. t.) To debase or degrade.

Embase :: Embase (v. t.) To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate..

Embasement :: Embasement (v. t.) Act of bringing down; depravation; deterioration.

Gynobase :: Gynobase (n.) A dilated base or receptacle, supporting a multilocular ovary..

Imbase :: Imbase (v. t.) See Embase.

Imbase :: Imbase (v. i.) To diminish in value.

Metabases :: Metabases (pl. ) of Metabasi.

Panabase :: Panabase (n.) Same as Tetrahedrite.

Rimbase :: Rimbase (n.) A short cylinder connecting a trunnion with the body of a cannon. See Illust. of Cannon.

Sarcobases :: Sarcobases (pl. ) of Sarcobasi.

Sclerobase :: Sclerobase (n.) The calcareous or hornlike coral forming the central stem or axis of most compound alcyonarians; -- called also foot secretion. See Illust. under Gorgoniacea, and Coenenchyma..

Self-abased :: Self-abased (a.) Humbled by consciousness of inferiority, unworthiness, guilt, or shame..

Self-abasement :: Self-abasement (n.) Degradation of one's self by one's own act.

Self-abasement :: Self-abasement (n.) Humiliation or abasement proceeding from consciousness of inferiority, guilt, or shame..

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