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Sill :: Sill (n.) The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like..

Rust :: Rust (n.) A minute mold or fungus forming reddish or rusty spots on the leaves and stems of cereal and other grasses (Trichobasis Rubigo-vera), now usually believed to be a form or condition of the corn mildew (Puccinia graminis). As rust, it has solitary reddish spores; as corn mildew, the spores are double and blackish..

Basis :: Basis (n.) The ground work the first or fundamental principle; that which supports.

Chondrigen :: Chondrigen (n.) The chemical basis of cartilage, converted by long boiling in water into a gelatinous body called chondrin..

Firmament :: Firmament (v. & a.) Fixed foundation; established basis.

Sarcobasis :: Sarcobasis (n.) A fruit consisting of many dry indehiscent cells, which contain but few seeds and cohere about a common style, as in the mallows..

Margate Fish :: Margate fish () A sparoid fish (Diabasis aurolineatus) of the Gulf of Mexico, esteemed as a food fish; -- called also red-mouth grunt..

Anabasis :: Anabasis (n.) A journey or expedition up from the coast, like that of the younger Cyrus into Central Asia, described by Xenophon in his work called The Anabasis..

Basisphenoid :: Basisphenoid (a.) Alt. of Basisphenoida.

Anabasis :: Anabasis (n.) The first period, or increase, of a disease; augmentation..

Ecbasis :: Ecbasis (n.) A figure in which the orator treats of things according to their events consequences.

Whereas :: Whereas (conj.) Considering that; it being the case that; since; -- used to introduce a preamble which is the basis of declarations, affirmations, commands, requests, or like, that follow..

Basis :: Basis (n.) The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests.

Footing :: Footing (n.) Standing; position; established place; basis for operation; permanent settlement; foothold.

Premise :: Premise (n.) A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.

Found :: Found (v. i.) To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative; to fix firmly..

Scale :: Scale (n.) A basis for a numeral system; as, the decimal scale; the binary scale, etc..

Protoplasm :: Protoplasm (n.) The viscid and more or less granular material of vegetable and animal cells, possessed of vital properties by which the processes of nutrition, secretion, and growth go forward; the so-called physical basis of life; the original cell substance, cytoplasm, cytoblastema, bioplasm sarcode, etc..

Anabatic :: Anabatic (a.) Pertaining to anabasis; as, an anabatic fever..

Basisphenoid :: Basisphenoid (n.) The basisphenoid bone.

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