English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Base
(n.)
The number from which a mathematical table is constructed;
as, the base of a system of logarithms.
Base
(n.)
A low, or deep, sound. (Mus.) (a) The lowest part; the
deepest male voice. (b) One who sings, or the instrument which plays,
base.
Base
(n.)
The bottom of anything, considered as its support, or that on
which something rests for support; the foundation; as, the base of a
statue.
Base
(n.)
Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the
essential principle; a groundwork.
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.
Base
(n.)
That extremity of a leaf, fruit, etc., at which it is
attached to its support.
Base
(n.)
The chief ingredient in a compound.
Base
(n.)
A substance used as a mordant.
Base
(n.)
The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line
which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions.
Base
(n.)
The line or surface constituting that part of a figure on
which it is supposed to stand.
Base
(n.)
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.
See Bass viol.
Base-burner
(n.)
A furnace or stove in which the fuel is contained in a
hopper or chamber, and is fed to the fire as the lower stratum is
consumed.
Base-court
(n.)
An inferior court of law, not of record.
Base-court
(n.)
The secondary, inferior, or rear courtyard of a large
house; the outer court of a castle.
Baseball
(n.)
The ball used in this game.
Baseball
(n.)
A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds ( four
in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor
to make after striking the ball.
Baseboard
(n.)
A board, or other woodwork, carried round the walls of a
room and touching the floor, to form a base and protect the plastering;
-- also called washboard (in England), mopboard, and scrubboard.
Baseborn
(a.)
Born of low parentage.
Baseborn
(a.)
Vile; mean.