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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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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..

Turbinated :: Turbinated (a.) Shaped like a top, or inverted cone; narrow at the base, and broad at the apex; as, a turbinated ovary, pericarp, or root..

Dipyridil :: Dipyridil (n.) A crystalline nitrogenous base, C10H8N2, obtained by the reduction of pyridine..

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..

Bastardly :: Bastardly (a.) Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt.

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..

Frustum :: Frustum (n.) The part of a solid next the base, formed by cutting off the, top; or the part of any solid, as of a cone, pyramid, etc., between two planes, which may be either parallel or inclined to each other..

Glossic :: Glossic (n.) A system of phonetic spelling based upon the present values of English letters, but invariably using one symbol to represent one sound only..

Based :: Based (imp. & p. p.) of Bas.

Lycine :: Lycine (n.) A weak base identical with betaine; -- so called because found in the boxthorn (Lycium barbarum). See Betaine.

Base :: Base (n.) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.

Coward :: Coward (a.) Belonging to a coward; proceeding from, or expressive of, base fear or timidity..

Comb :: Comb (n.) One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen of scorpions.

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

Poundal :: Poundal (n.) A unit of force based upon the pound, foot, and second, being the force which, acting on a pound avoirdupois for one second, causes it to acquire by the of that time a velocity of one foot per second. It is about equal to the weight of half an ounce, and is 13,825 dynes..

Trapezium :: Trapezium (n.) A bone of the carpus at the base of the first metacarpal, or thumb..

Tubularia :: Tubularia (n.) A genus of hydroids having large, naked, flowerlike hydranths at the summits of long, slender, usually simple, stems. The gonophores are small, and form clusters at the bases of the outer tentacles..

Viridine :: Viridine (n.) A greenish, oily, nitrogenous hydrocarbon, C12H19N7, obtained from coal tar, and probably consisting of a mixture of several metameric compounds which are higher derivatives of the base pyridine..

Involucrum :: Involucrum (n.) A sheath which surrounds the base of the lasso cells in the Siphonophora.

Peltated :: Peltated (a.) Shield-shaped; scutiform; (Bot.) having the stem or support attached to the lower surface, instead of at the base or margin; -- said of a leaf or other organ..