Definition of base

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Base (n.) The chief ingredient in a compound.

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Basal-nerved :: Basal-nerved (a.) Having the nerves radiating from the base; -- said of leaves.
Vility :: Vility (n.) Vileness; baseness.
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..
Unguiculated :: Unguiculated (n.) Furnished with a claw, or a narrow stalklike base, as the petals of a carnation..
Sneezing :: Sneezing (n.) The act of violently forcing air out through the nasal passages while the cavity of the mouth is shut off from the pharynx by the approximation of the soft palate and the base of the tongue.
Humble :: Humble (v. t.) To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make meek and submissive; -- often used rexlexively.
Surbased :: Surbase (n.) A board or group of moldings running round a room on a level with the tops of the chair backs.
Quillwort :: Quillwort (n.) Any plant or species of the genus Isoetes, cryptogamous plants with a cluster of elongated four-tubed rushlike leaves, rising from a corm, and containing spores in their enlarged and excavated bases. There are about seventeen American species, usually growing in the mud under still, shallow water. So called from the shape of the shape of the leaves..
Scoundrel :: Scoundrel (a.) Low; base; mean; unprincipled.
Base-court :: Base-court (n.) An inferior court of law, not of record..
Debasement :: Debasement (n.) The act of debasing or the state of being debased.
Humiliation :: Humiliation (n.) The act of humiliating or humbling; abasement of pride; mortification.
Base :: Base (a.) Of humble birth; or low degree; lowly; mean.
Conundrum :: Conundrum (n.) A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun..
Spermaceti :: Spermaceti (n.) A white waxy substance obtained from cavities in the head of the sperm whale, and used making candles, oilments, cosmetics, etc. It consists essentially of ethereal salts of palmitic acid with ethal and other hydrocarbon bases. The substance of spermaceti after the removal of certain impurities is sometimes called cetin..
Innate :: Innate (a.) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther..
Superstructure :: Superstructure (n.) all that part of a building above the basement. Also used figuratively.
Pentabasic :: Pentabasic (a.) Capable of uniting with five molecules of a monacid base; having five acid hydrogen atoms capable of substitution by a basic radical; -- said of certain acids.
Pitcher :: Pitcher (n.) One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman..
Billon :: Billon (n.) An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage..
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