Definition of base

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Base (n.) Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the essential principle; a groundwork.

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Hilding :: Hilding (n.) A base, menial wretch..
Bace :: Bace (n., a., & v.) See Base..
Salify :: Salify (v. t.) To form a salt with; to convert into a salt; as, to salify a base or an acid..
Two-cleft :: Two-cleft (a.) Divided about half way from the border to the base into two segments; bifid.
Minie Ball :: Minie ball () A conical rifle bullet, with a cavity in its base plugged with a piece of iron, which, by the explosion of the charge, is driven farther in, expanding the sides to fit closely the grooves of the barrel..
Sclerobase :: Sclerobase (n.) The calcareous or hornlike coral forming the central stem or axis of most compound alcyonarians; -- called also foot secretion. See Illust. under Gorgoniacea, and Coenenchyma..
Scapulet :: Scapulet (n.) A secondary mouth fold developed at the base of each of the armlike lobes of the manubrium of many rhizostome medusae. See Illustration in Appendix.
Biauriculate :: Biauriculate (a.) Having two earlike projections at its base, as a leaf..
Embase :: Embase (v. t.) To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate..
Profane :: Profane (a.) To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile.
Basic :: Basic (a.) Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.
Hydrotellurate :: Hydrotellurate (n.) A salt formed by the union of hydrotelluric acid and the base.
Rounder :: Rounder (n.) An English game somewhat resembling baseball; also, another English game resembling the game of fives, but played with a football..
Batsman :: Batsman (n.) The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc..
Straight :: Straight (superl.) Approximately straight; not much curved; as, straight ribs are such as pass from the base of a leaf to the apex, with a small curve..
Home :: Home (n.) The home base; he started for home.
Basicity :: 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..
Basifier :: Basifier (n.) That which converts into a salifiable base.
Quillwort :: Quillwort (n.) Any plant or species of the genus Isoetes, cryptogamous plants with a cluster of elongated four-tubed rushlike leaves, rising from a corm, and containing spores in their enlarged and excavated bases. There are about seventeen American species, usually growing in the mud under still, shallow water. So called from the shape of the shape of the leaves..
Scoundrelism :: Scoundrelism (n.) The practices or conduct of a scoundrel; baseness; rascality.
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