Definition of base

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Base (n.) The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; -- applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids..

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Succubi :: Succubous (a.) Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one is covered by the base of the next higher leaf, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Plagiochila..
Debased :: Debased (a.) Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed.
Grovel :: Grovel (adv.) To tend toward, or delight in, what is sensual or base; to be low, abject, or mean..
Prism :: Prism (n.) A solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms..
Acid :: Acid (n.) One of a class of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetable blue or violet colors. They are also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own peculiar properties. They all contain hydrogen, united with a more negative element or radical, either alone, or more generally with oxygen, and take their n
Sheath :: Sheath (n.) The base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a stem or branch, as in grasses..
Ball :: Ball (n.) A general name for games in which a ball is thrown, kicked, or knocked. See Baseball, and Football..
Conyrine :: Conyrine (n.) A blue, fluorescent, oily base (regarded as a derivative of pyridine), obtained from conine..
Descend :: Descend (v. i.) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate..
Mauveine :: Mauveine (n.) An artificial organic base, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, and valuable for the dyestuffs it forms..
Radix :: Radix (n.) A number or quantity which is arbitrarily made the fundamental number of any system; a base. Thus, 10 is the radix, or base, of the common system of logarithms, and also of the decimal system of numeration..
Dirtiness :: Dirtiness (n.) The state of being dirty; filthiness; foulness; nastiness; baseness; sordidness.
Homological :: Homological (a.) Pertaining to homology; having a structural affinity proceeding from, or base upon, that kind of relation termed homology..
Batsman :: Batsman (n.) The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc..
Assignat :: Assignat (n.) One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state..
Bedplate :: Bedplate (n.) The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed; -- called also baseplate and soleplate..
Superstructure :: Superstructure (n.) all that part of a building above the basement. Also used figuratively.
Bract :: Bract (n.) Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower..
Scullionly :: Scullionly (a.) Like a scullion; base.
Abased :: Abased (a.) Lowered; humbled.
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