Definition of base

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Base (n.) A place or tract of country, protected by fortifications, or by natural advantages, from which the operations of an army proceed, forward movements are made, supplies are furnished, etc..

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Neck :: Neck (n.) the point where the base of the stem of a plant arises from the root.
Villain :: Villain (v. t.) To debase; to degrade.
Sarum Use :: Sarum use () A liturgy, or use, put forth about 1087 by St. Osmund, bishop of Sarum, based on Anglo-Saxon and Norman customs..
Hangdog :: Hangdog (n.) A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird..
Run :: Run (n.) In baseball, a complete circuit of the bases made by a player, which enables him to score one; in cricket, a passing from one wicket to the other, by which one point is scored; as, a player made three runs; the side went out with two hundred runs..
Neutralize :: Neutralize (v. t.) To render inert or imperceptible the peculiar affinities of, as a chemical substance; to destroy the effect of; as, to neutralize an acid with a base..
Debased :: Debased (imp. & p. p.) of Debas.
Betaine :: Betaine (n.) A nitrogenous base, C5H11NO2, produced artificially, and also occurring naturally in beet-root molasses and its residues, from which it is extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- called also lycine and oxyneurine. It has a sweetish taste..
Cingulum :: Cingulum (n.) The base of the crown of a tooth.
Vilify :: Vilify (v. t.) To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate.
Base :: Base (n.) To put on a base or basis; to lay the foundation of; to found, as an argument or conclusion; -- used with on or upon..
Spindle :: Spindle (n.) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
Degradation :: Degradation (n.) The state of being reduced in rank, character, or reputation; baseness; moral, physical, or intellectual degeneracy; disgrace; abasement; debasement..
Dado :: Dado (n.) That part of a pedestal included between the base and the cornice (or surbase); the die. See Illust. of Column.
Wheatear :: Wheatear (n.) A small European singing bird (Saxicola /nanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and whitetail..
Trisected :: Trisected (a.) Divided into three parts or segments by incisions extending to the midrib or to the base; -- said of leaves.
Base :: Base (n.) The line or surface constituting that part of a figure on which it is supposed to stand.
Guanidine :: Guanidine (n.) A strongly alkaline base, CN3H5, formed by the oxidation of guanin, and also obtained combined with methyl in the decomposition of creatin. Boiled with dilute sulphuric acid, it yields urea and ammonia..
Metalloid :: Metalloid (n.) Formerly, the metallic base of a fixed alkali, or alkaline earth; -- applied by Sir H. Davy to sodium, potassium, and some other metallic substances whose metallic character was supposed to be not well defined..
Degraded :: Degraded (a.) Reduced in rank, character, or reputation; debased; sunken; low; base..
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