Definition of base

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Base (n.) The ground mass of a rock, especially if not distinctly crystalline..

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Base :: Base (a.) Deep or grave in sound; as, the base tone of a violin..
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..
Abjection :: Abjection (n.) A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation.
Toadyism :: Toadyism (n.) The practice of meanly fawning on another; base sycophancy; servile adulation.
Connate :: Connate (a.) Congenitally united; growing from one base, or united at their bases; united into one body; as, connate leaves or athers. See Illust. of Connate-perfoliate..
Executor :: Executor (n.) One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness..
Mortify :: Mortify (v. t.) To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble..
Umpire :: Umpire (n.) A person to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is referred; especially, one chosen to see that the rules of a game, as cricket, baseball, or the like, are strictly observed..
Angular :: Angular (n.) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes..
Rounder :: Rounder (n.) An English game somewhat resembling baseball; also, another English game resembling the game of fives, but played with a football..
Sensualize :: Sensualize (v. t.) To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure..
Hydrocyanide :: Hydrocyanide (n.) A compound of hydrocyanic acid with a base; -- distinguished from a cyanide, in which only the cyanogen so combines..
Axis :: Axis (n.) A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e., the axis of a cone, that is, the straight line joining the vertex and the center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight line passing through the center..
Descend :: Descend (v. i.) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate..
Cumidine :: Cumidine (n.) A strong, liquid, organic base, C3H7.C6H4.NH2, homologous with aniline..
Cocoa Palm :: Cocoa palm () A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree..
Glycosine :: Glycosine (n.) An organic base, C6H6N4, produced artificially as a white, crystalline powder, by the action of ammonia on glyoxal..
Base :: Base (a.) Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs..
Bases :: Bases (pl. ) of Basi.
Prism :: Prism (n.) A solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms..
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