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Innate :: Innate (a.) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther..

Abase :: Abase (a.) To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade..

Drop :: Drop (n.) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.

Seta :: Seta (n.) One of the spinelike feathers at the base of the bill of certain birds.

Elbowboard :: Elbowboard (n.) The base of a window casing, on which the elbows may rest..

Glyoxaline :: Glyoxaline (n.) A white, crystalline, organic base, C3H4N2, produced by the action of ammonia on glyoxal, and forming the origin of a large class of derivatives hence, any one of the series of which glyoxaline is a type; -- called also oxaline..

Catapetalous :: Catapetalous (a.) Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow..

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..

Leucomaine :: Leucomaine (n.) An animal base or alkaloid, appearing in the tissue during life; hence, a vital alkaloid, as distinguished from a ptomaine or cadaveric poison..

Greenstone :: Greenstone (n.) A name formerly applied rather loosely to certain dark-colored igneous rocks, including diorite, diabase, etc..

Alanine :: Alanine (n.) A white crystalline base, C3H7NO2, derived from aldehyde ammonia..

Machicolation :: Machicolation (n.) An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle..

Umpire :: Umpire (n.) A person to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is referred; especially, one chosen to see that the rules of a game, as cricket, baseball, or the like, are strictly observed..

Basic :: Basic (a.) Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.

Sarcobases :: Sarcobases (pl. ) of Sarcobasi.

Partite :: Partite (a.) Divided nearly to the base; as, a partite leaf is a simple separated down nearly to the base..

Scoundrel :: Scoundrel (a.) Low; base; mean; unprincipled.

Abjectness :: Abjectness (n.) The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility.

Hydrocyanide :: Hydrocyanide (n.) A compound of hydrocyanic acid with a base; -- distinguished from a cyanide, in which only the cyanogen so combines..

Based :: Based (a.) Having a base, or having as a base; supported; as, broad-based..

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