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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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Villainous :: Villainous (a.) Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch..

Honorable :: Honorable (a.) Proceeding from an upright and laudable cause, or directed to a just and proper end; not base; irreproachable; fair; as, an honorable motive..

Persulphate :: Persulphate (n.) A sulphate of the peroxide of any base.

Anta :: Anta (n.) A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base..

Ophite :: Ophite (n.) A greenish spotted porphyry, being a diabase whose pyroxene has been altered to uralite; -- first found in the Pyreness. So called from the colored spots which give it a mottled appearance..

Piedmont :: Piedmont (a.) Noting the region of foothills near the base of a mountain chain.

Reproachful :: Reproachful (a.) Occasioning or deserving reproach; shameful; base; as, a reproachful life..

Valeridine :: Valeridine (n.) A base, C10H19N, produced by heating valeric aldehyde with ammonia. It is probably related to the conine alkaloids..

Base :: Base (n.) The ground mass of a rock, especially if not distinctly crystalline..

Collophore :: Collophore (n.) A suckerlike organ at the base of the abdomen of insects belonging to the Collembola.

Zoanthacea :: Zoanthacea (n. pl.) A suborder of Actinaria, including Zoanthus and allied genera, which are permanently attached by their bases..

Phenanthridine :: Phenanthridine (n.) A nitrogenous hydrocarbon base, C13H9N, analogous to phenanthrene and quinoline..

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..

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..

Rascality :: Rascality (n.) The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud..

Pyridic :: Pyridic (a.) Related to, or formed from, pyridin or its homologues; as, the pyridic bases..

Mouflon :: Mouflon (n.) A wild sheep (Ovis musimon), inhabiting the mountains of Sardinia, Corsica, etc. Its horns are very large, with a triangular base and rounded angles. It is supposed by some to be the original of the domestic sheep. Called also musimon or musmon..

Base :: Base (a.) Of humble birth; or low degree; lowly; mean.

Monobasic :: Monobasic (a.) Capable of being neutralized by a univalent base or basic radical; having but one acid hydrogen atom to be replaced; -- said of acids; as, acetic, nitric, and hydrochloric acids are monobasic..

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