Definition of base

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Base (a.) Of little comparative value, as metal inferior to gold and silver, the precious metals..

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Adulteration :: Adulteration (n.) The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture..
Meanness :: Meanness (n.) The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess..
Centrifugal :: Centrifugal (a.) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster..
Vaginated :: Vaginated (a.) Invested with, or as if with, a sheath; as, a vaginate stem, or one invested by the tubular base of a leaf..
Metathesis :: Metathesis (n.) The act, process, or result of exchange, substitution, or replacement of atoms and radicals; thus, by metathesis an acid gives up all or part of its hydrogen, takes on an equivalent amount of a metal or base, and forms a salt..
Base :: Base (n.) To put on a base or basis; to lay the foundation of; to found, as an argument or conclusion; -- used with on or upon..
Prostitute :: Prostitute (n.) A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire.
Arsenite :: Arsenite (n.) A salt formed by the union of arsenious acid with a base.
Cryptidine :: Cryptidine (n.) One of the quinoline bases, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H11N; also, any one of several substances metameric with, and resembling, cryptidine proper..
Turbinated :: Turbinated (a.) Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large base to a pointed apex; -- said of certain shells.
Pyridine :: Pyridine (n.) A nitrogenous base, C5H5N, obtained from the distillation of bone oil or coal tar, and by the decomposition of certain alkaloids, as a colorless liquid with a peculiar pungent odor. It is the nucleus of a large number of organic substances, among which several vegetable alkaloids, as nicotine and certain of the ptomaines, may be mentioned. See Lutidine..
Palm :: Palm (n.) The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist.
Circumvallate :: Circumvallate (a.) Surrounded by a ridge or elevation; as, the circumvallate papillae, near the base of the tongue..
Sexenary :: Sexenary (a.) Proceeding by sixes; sextuple; -- applied especially to a system of arithmetical computation in which the base is six.
Debased :: Debased (a.) Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed.
Abasedly :: Abasedly (adv.) Abjectly; downcastly.
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..
Baseborn :: Baseborn (a.) Born out of wedlock.
Tetanin :: Tetanin (n.) A poisonous base (ptomaine) formed in meat broth through the agency of a peculiar microbe from the wound of a person who has died of tetanus; -- so called because it produces tetanus as one of its prominent effects.
Single :: Single (n.) A hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only.
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