Definition of base

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Base (n.) A kind of skirt ( often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armor) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower..

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Anta :: Anta (n.) A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base..
Base :: Base (a.) Morally low. Hence: Low-minded; unworthy; without dignity of sentiment; ignoble; mean; illiberal; menial; as, a base fellow; base motives; base occupations..
Subject :: Subject (n.) The principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based..
Romanesque :: Romanesque (a.) Somewhat resembling the Roman; -- applied sometimes to the debased style of the later Roman empire, but esp. to the more developed architecture prevailing from the 8th century to the 12th..
Barbet :: Barbet (n.) A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunches of stiff bristles; the puff bird. It inhabits tropical America and Africa..
Echidnine :: Echidnine (n.) The clear, viscid fluid secreted by the poison glands of certain serpents; also, a nitrogenous base contained in this, and supposed to be the active poisonous principle of the virus..
Viridine :: Viridine (n.) A greenish, oily, nitrogenous hydrocarbon, C12H19N7, obtained from coal tar, and probably consisting of a mixture of several metameric compounds which are higher derivatives of the base pyridine..
Prostitute :: Prostitute (a.) Openly given up to lewdness; devoted to base or infamous purposes.
Base :: Base (n.) The lower part of a complete architectural design, as of a monument; also, the lower part of any elaborate piece of furniture or decoration..
Acolyctine :: Acolyctine (n.) An organic base, in the form of a white powder, obtained from Aconitum lycoctonum..
Prism :: Prism (n.) A solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms..
Piecework :: Piecework (n.) Work done by the piece or job; work paid for at a rate based on the amount of work done, rather than on the time employed..
Decurrent :: Decurrent (a.) Extending downward; -- said of a leaf whose base extends downward and forms a wing along the stem.
Lath-shaped :: Lath-shaped (a.) Having a slender elongated form, like a lath; -- said of the feldspar of certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as seen in microscopic sections..
Batsman :: Batsman (n.) The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc..
Longmynd Rocks :: Longmynd rocks () The sparingly fossiliferous conglomerates, grits, schists, and states of Great Britain, which lie at the base of the Cambrian system; -- so called, because typically developed in the Longmynd Hills, Shropshire..
Abased :: Abased (imp. & p. p.) of Abas.
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..
Trachelipoda :: Trachelipoda (n.pl.) An extensive artificial group of gastropods comprising all those which have a spiral shell and the foot attached to the base of the neck.
Absinthate :: Absinthate (n.) A combination of absinthic acid with a base or positive radical.
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