Definition of base

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Base (n.) Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the essential principle; a groundwork.

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Alkali :: Alkali (n.) One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, potash, ammonia, and lithia, whose distinguishing peculiarities are solubility in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue..
Low :: Low (superl.) Mean; vulgar; base; dishonorable; as, a person of low mind; a low trick or stratagem..
Base :: Base (n.) An apron.
Rosaniline :: Rosaniline (n.) A complex nitrogenous base, C20H21N3O, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, as a colorless crystalline substance which forms red salts. These salts are essential components of many of the socalled aniline dyes, as fuchsine, aniline red, etc. By extension, any one of the series of substances derived from, or related to, rosaniline proper..
Bipartite :: Bipartite (a.) Divided into two parts almost to the base, as a leaf; consisting of two parts or subdivisions..
Apple :: Apple (n.) Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.
Polyconic :: Polyconic (a.) Pertaining to, or based upon, many cones..
Snag :: Snag (n.) A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance..
Basilary :: Basilary (n.) Relating to, or situated at, the base..
Pitching :: Pitching (n.) The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball..
Protosalt :: Protosalt (n.) A salt derived from a protoxide base.
Bastardly :: Bastardly (a.) Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt.
Tautochrone :: Tautochrone (n.) A curved line, such that a heavy body, descending along it by the action of gravity, will always arrive at the lowest point in the same time, wherever in the curve it may begin to fall; as, an inverted cycloid with its base horizontal is a tautochrone..
Uropygial :: Uropygial (a.) Of or pertaining to the uropygium, or prominence at the base of the tail feathers, in birds..
Paraconine :: Paraconine (n.) A base resembling and isomeric with conine, and obtained as a colorless liquid from butyric aldehyde and ammonia..
Turbinated :: Turbinated (a.) Shaped like a top, or inverted cone; narrow at the base, and broad at the apex; as, a turbinated ovary, pericarp, or root..
Katydid :: Katydid (n.) A large, green, arboreal, orthopterous insect (Cyrtophyllus concavus) of the family Locustidae, common in the United States. The males have stridulating organs at the bases of the front wings. During the summer and autumn, in the evening, the males make a peculiar, loud, shrill sound, resembling the combination Katy-did, whence the name..
Leucaniline :: Leucaniline (n.) A colorless, crystalline, organic base, obtained from rosaniline by reduction, and also from other sources. It forms colorless salts..
Acrotomous :: Acrotomous (a.) Having a cleavage parallel with the base.
Base :: Base (a.) Of little comparative value, as metal inferior to gold and silver, the precious metals..
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