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Rook :: Rook (n.) A European bird (Corvus frugilegus) resembling the crow, but smaller. It is black, with purple and violet reflections. The base of the beak and the region around it are covered with a rough, scabrous skin, which in old birds is whitish. It is gregarious in its habits. The name is also applied to related Asiatic species..

Family :: Family (v. t.) A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order..

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

Dihexagonal :: Dihexagonal (a.) Consisting of two hexagonal parts united; thus, a dihexagonal pyramid is composed of two hexagonal pyramids placed base to base..

Aurate :: Aurate (n.) A combination of auric acid with a base; as, aurate or potassium..

C. G. S. :: C. G. S. () An abbreviation for Centimeter, Gram, Second. -- applied to a system of units much employed in physical science, based upon the centimeter as the unit of length, the gram as the unit of weight or mass, and the second as the unit of time..

Presumptive :: Presumptive (a.) Based on presumption or probability; grounded on probable evidence; probable; as, presumptive proof..

Dirtiness :: Dirtiness (n.) The state of being dirty; filthiness; foulness; nastiness; baseness; sordidness.

Cascabel :: Cascabel (n.) The projection in rear of the breech of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it included all in rear of the base ring. [See Illust. of Cannon.].

Self-abasement :: Self-abasement (n.) Humiliation or abasement proceeding from consciousness of inferiority, guilt, or shame..

Cone :: Cone (n.) The fruit or strobile of the Coniferae, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base..

Villain :: Villain (v. t.) To debase; to degrade.

Bottom :: Bottom (n.) The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface..

Catso :: Catso (n.) A base fellow; a rogue; a cheat.

Limmer :: Limmer (n.) A low, base fellow; also, a prostitute..

Cap :: Cap (n.) The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.

Dishonorable :: Dishonorable (a.) Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base..

Rascally :: Rascally (a.) Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; -- often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty..

Altitude :: Altitude (n.) The perpendicular distance from the base of a figure to the summit, or to the side parallel to the base; as, the altitude of a triangle, pyramid, parallelogram, frustum, etc..

Decurrent :: Decurrent (a.) Extending downward; -- said of a leaf whose base extends downward and forms a wing along the stem.

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