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Unguis :: Unguis (n.) The slender base of a petal in some flowers; a claw; called also ungula.

Basisphenoidal :: Basisphenoidal (a.) Of or pertaining to that part of the base of the cranium between the basioccipital and the presphenoid, which usually ossifies separately in the embryo or in the young, and becomes a part of the sphenoid in the adult..

Metalloid :: Metalloid (n.) Formerly, the metallic base of a fixed alkali, or alkaline earth; -- applied by Sir H. Davy to sodium, potassium, and some other metallic substances whose metallic character was supposed to be not well defined..

Partite :: Partite (a.) Divided nearly to the base; as, a partite leaf is a simple separated down nearly to the base..

Abase :: Abase (a.) To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade..

Balance :: Balance (n.) To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope..

Bullion :: Bullion (n.) Base or uncurrent coin.

Mortify :: Mortify (v. t.) To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble..

Connate-perfoliate :: Connate-perfoliate (a.) Connate or coalescent at the base so as to produce a broad foliaceous body through the center of which the stem passes; -- applied to leaves, as the leaves of the boneset..

Stank :: Stanielry (n.) Hawking with staniels, -- a base kind of falconry..

Crane :: Crane (n.) A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; -- so called from a fancied similarity between its arm and the neck of a crane See Illust. of Derrick..

Diacid :: Diacid (a.) Divalent; -- said of a base or radical as capable of saturating two acid monad radicals or a dibasic acid. Cf. Dibasic, a., and Biacid..

Croconate :: Croconate (n.) A salt formed by the union of croconic acid with a base.

Prism :: Prism (n.) A solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms..

Cylindroid :: Cylindroid (n.) A solid body resembling a right cylinder, but having the bases or ends elliptical..

Heteroptera :: Heteroptera (n. pl.) A suborder of Hemiptera, in which the base of the anterior wings is thickened. See Hemiptera..

Basi- :: Basi- () 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..

Neutralize :: Neutralize (v. t.) To render inert or imperceptible the peculiar affinities of, as a chemical substance; to destroy the effect of; as, to neutralize an acid with a base..

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.

Reclinate :: Reclinate (a.) Reclined, as a leaf; bent downward, so that the point, as of a stem or leaf, is lower than the base..

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