The lower
part of a wall, pier, or column, when treated as a separate feature,
usually in projection, or especially ornamented.
That extremity of a leaf, fruit,
etc., at which it is attached to its support.
The positive, or non-acid
component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes
the latter and forms a salt; -- applied also to the hydroxides of the
positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling
them in their property of forming salts with acids.
The chief ingredient in a
compound.
A substance used as a
mordant.
The exterior side of the polygon,
or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent
bastions.
The line or surface constituting
that part of a figure on which it is supposed to stand.
The number from which a
mathematical table is constructed; as, the base of a system of
logarithms.
A low, or deep, sound.
(Mus.) (a) The lowest part; the deepest male voice.
(b) One who sings, or the instrument which plays,
base.
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.
The smallest kind of
cannon.
That part of an organ by
which it is attached to another more central organ.
The basal plane of a
crystal.
The ground mass of a rock,
especially if not distinctly crystalline.
The lower part of the field. See
Escutcheon.
The housing of a horse.
A kind of skirt (often of velvet or
brocade, but sometimes of mailed armor) which hung from the middle to about
the knees, or lower.
The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
An apron.
The point or line from which a start is made; a
starting place or a goal in various games.
A line in a survey which, being
accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from
which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects
connected with it by a system of triangles.
A rustic play; -- called also prisoner's
base, prison base, or bars.
Any one of the four bounds
which mark the circuit of the infield.
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