English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Bashfulness
(n.)
The quality of being bashful.
Bashi-bazouk
(n.)
A soldier belonging to the irregular troops of the
Turkish army.
Bashless
(a.)
Shameless; unblushing.
Bashyle
(n.)
See Basyle.
A combining form, especially in anatomical and botanical
words, to indicate the base or position at or near a base; forming a
base; as, basibranchials, the most ventral of the cartilages or bones
of the branchial arches; basicranial, situated at the base of the
cranium; basifacial, basitemporal, etc.
Basic
(a.)
Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a
salt.
Basic
(a.)
Having the base in excess, or the amount of the base
atomically greater than that of the acid, or exceeding in proportion
that of the related neutral salt.
Basic
(a.)
Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit
alkaline reactions with test paper.
Basic
(a.)
Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low
percentage of silica, as basalt.
Basicerite
(n.)
The second joint of the antennae of crustaceans.
Basicity
(n.)
The quality or state of being a base.
Basicity
(n.)
The power of an acid to unite with one or more atoms or
equivalents of a base, as indicated by the number of replaceable
hydrogen atoms contained in the acid.
Basidiospore
(n.)
A spore borne by a basidium.
Basidium
(n.)
A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches,
which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes,
of which the common mushroom is an example.
Basifier
(n.)
That which converts into a salifiable base.
Basifugal
(n.)
Tending or proceeding away from the base; as, a
basifugal growth.
Basify
(v. t.)
To convert into a salifiable base.
Basigynium
(n.)
The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as
the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.
Basihyal
(a.)
Noting two small bones, forming the body of the inverted
hyoid arch.
Basihyoid
(n.)
The central tongue bone.