Definition of base

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Base (n.) A substance used as a mordant.

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Axis :: Axis (n.) A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e., the axis of a cone, that is, the straight line joining the vertex and the center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight line passing through the center..
Gynobase :: Gynobase (n.) A dilated base or receptacle, supporting a multilocular ovary..
Stereo-chemic :: Stereobate (n.) The lower part or basement of a building or pedestal; -- used loosely for several different forms of basement.
Valeritrine :: Valeritrine (n.) A base, C15H27N, produced together with valeridine, which it resembles..
Catso :: Catso (n.) A base fellow; a rogue; a cheat.
Scapulet :: Scapulet (n.) A secondary mouth fold developed at the base of each of the armlike lobes of the manubrium of many rhizostome medusae. See Illustration in Appendix.
Base :: Base (n.) That extremity of a leaf, fruit, etc., at which it is attached to its support..
Tres-tyne :: Tres-tyne (n.) In the antler of a stag, the third tyne above the base. This tyne appears in the third year. In those deer in which the brow tyne does not divide, the tres-tyne is the second tyne above the base. See Illust. under Rucervine, and under Rusine..
Free :: Free (superl.) Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage..
Imbastardize :: Imbastardize (v. t.) To bastardize; to debase.
Hydrotellurate :: Hydrotellurate (n.) A salt formed by the union of hydrotelluric acid and the base.
Pustule :: Pustule (n.) A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus..
Turbinated :: Turbinated (a.) Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large base to a pointed apex; -- said of certain shells.
Cephalostyle :: Cephalostyle (n.) The anterior end of the notochord and its bony sheath in the base of cartilaginous crania.
Septempartite :: Septempartite (a.) Divided nearly to the base into seven parts; as, a septempartite leaf..
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..
Abased :: Abased (imp. & p. p.) of Abas.
Demean :: Demean (v. t.) To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.
Kitcat :: Kitcat (n.) A game played by striking with a stick small piece of wood, called a cat, shaped like two cones united at their bases; tipcat..
Humiliation :: Humiliation (n.) The act of humiliating or humbling; abasement of pride; mortification.
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