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Base
BASE, a.
1. Low in place. Obs.
2. Mean; vile; worthless; that is, low in value or estimation; used of things.
3. Of low station; of mean account; without rank, dignity or estimation among men; used of persons.
The base shall behave proudly against the honorable. Isa 3.
4. Of mean spirit; disingenuous; illiberal; low; without dignity of sentiment; as a base and abject multitude.
5. Of little comparative value; applied to metals, and perhaps to all metals, except gold and silver.
6. Deep; grave; applied to sounds; as the base sounds of a viol.
7. Of illegitimate birth; born out of wedlock.
8. Not held by honorable tenure. A base estate is an estate held by services not honorable,not in capite, or by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant. So writers on the laws of England use the terms, a base fee, a base court.
Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant. So writers on the laws of England use the terms, a base fee, a base court.
BASE, n. [L. basis; that which is set, the foundation or bottom.]
1. The bottom of any thing, considered as its support or the part of a thing on which it stands or rests; as the base of a column, the pedestal of a statue, the foundation of a house,etc.
In architecture, the base of a pillar properly is that part which is between the top of a pedestal and the bottom of the shaft; but when there is no pedestal, it is the part between the bottom of the column and the plinth. Usually it consists of certain spires or circles. The pedestal also has its base.
2. In fortification, the exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which is drawn from the flanked angle of a bastion to the angle opposite to it.
3. In gunnery, the least sort of ordnance, the diameter of whose bore is l 1/4 inch.
4. The part of any ornament which hangs down, as housings.
5. The broad part of any thing, as the bottom of a cone.
6. In old authors, stockings; armor for the legs.
7. The place from which racers or tilters start; the bottom of the field; the carcer or starting post.
8. The lowest or gravest part in music; improperly written bass.
9. A rustic play, called also bays, or prison bars.
10. In geometry, the lowest side of the perimeter of a figure. Any side of a triangle may be called its base, but this term most properly belongs to the side which is parallel to the horizon. In rectangled triangles, the base, properly, is the side opposite to the right angle. The base of a solid figure is that on which it stands. The base of a conic section is a right line in the hyperbola and parabola, arising from the common intersection of the secant plane and the base of the cone.
11. In chimistry, any body which is dissolved by another body, which it receives and fixes. Thus any alkaline, earthy or metallic substance, combining with an acid, forms a compound or neutral salt, of which it is the base. Such salts are called salts with alkaline, earthy or metallic bases.
12. Thorough base, in music, is the part performed with base viols or theorbos, while the voices sing and other instruments perform their parts, or during the intervals when the other parts stop. It is distinguished by figures over the notes.
Counter base is a second or double base, when there are several in the same concert.
BASE, v.t. To embase; to reduce the value by the admixture of meaner metals. [Little used.]
2. To found; to lay the base or foundation.
To base and build the commonwealth of man.
base appears in definitions for these words:
Abase Abjection Accipiter Aceetate Acetary Acetite Acetous Acidule Acroter Adulterate Adz Allay Alloy Alloyage Alloying Altern Alumin Aluminum Amplexicaul Angel-fish Annular Annulet Antimoniate Antimonite Apophthegm Archilute Arillus Arseniate Arsenite Artichoke Asteropode Attic Aurate Auricle Axis B Bagpipe Balas Bald Bamboo Barytone Basal Base Base-viol Baseless Basely Basis Bass Bass-relief Bass-viol Basso-concertante Basso-continuo Basso-repieno Basso-violino Bassoon Baston Bear Beet-rave Bend Benzoate Bipartite Bird Bison Bombardo Bombiat Boracic Boracited Borate Boron Bottom Brucite Burden Calycle Calycled Calyculate Camphorate Carbonate Cere Cetate Chiastolite Chlorate Chondrodite Chromate Cincture Cinnamon Citrate Clasping Clivers Clod Coadunate Coiner Columbate Column Cone Confluent Connate Contaminate Continued Cormorant Counterpart Coward Cowardly Cullionly Cyanogen Cylindroid Dado Daphnate Dastardly Dastardy Decahedron Decurrent Deformed Degenerate Degenerately Degenerous Degenerously Degradation Degrading Deltoid Descant Dignity Dirtiness Dirty Dishonorable Dispart Ditrihedria Diving-bell Dodecahedron Dunghill Eagle Earth Elaolite Ellipsis Elops Embase Epidote Equicrural F Fee Ferro-cyanate Ferro-prussiate Ferro-silicate Fesels Filthy Fluate Fluoborate Flycatcher Foot Formiate Fructification Frustum Fungate Gallate Gazel Germ Glucin Glumous Grossbeak Ground Harlot Hastate Hautboy Hawk Hexahedron Honorable Hydriodate Hydrochlorate Hydrofluate Hydroguret Hydrogureted Hydroxanthate Hyperbaton Hypophosphite Hyposulphate Hyposulphite Hyposulphurous Ibis Ichnography Icosahedron Idocrase Ignoble Ignobly Incomparable Infamous Inherent Iodate Ioduret Ittrium Ivory Kinate Koba Kyanite Kyanogen Lactate Lampiate Laterifolious Ligulate Lithiate Low Lucre Magnesia Magnesium Malate Malignity Manganesiate Margarate Mean Meconiate Mellate Menispermate Metal Metalloid Miter Mixture Module Mole Muriate Nerved Neutralizer Nightshade Nitrate Nitrite Obverse Ochimy Octahedron Oleate Order Outrage Oxalate Oxyd Pale Parallelopiped Partite Patten Pedal Pedestal Pentahedral Perchlorate Perfoliate Philosopher Phosphate Phosphite Phosphuret Pil-garlick Platina Plinth Poltroonery Polypus Poor-spirited Poor-spiritedness Prism Profane Prostitute Prostituted Prussiate Purpurate Putid Pyramid Pyramoid Pyromalate Qualified Quinquepartite Radical Radix Rascality Rascally Receptacle Reclinate Rent Repentance Reproachful Rhoetizite Ribald Riot Root Saccholate Sagittate Salient Salifiable Salt Saponule Scotia Scoundrel Scoundrelism Screw Scullionly Scurrilousness Scurvily Sebate Seduce Seleniate Serpent Servant Servilely Servility Shaft Sheathed Silcia Silex Silicium Slaveish Slavishly Small Socage Sodium Sorbate Sordid Sordidly Sordidness Sort Spatulate Spodumene Sputter Stale Stamp Stem-clasping Stipe Stipel Stipula Strontian Strontium Style Sub-contrary Suberate Subhydrosulphuret Subject Subsalt Subsoil Subsulphate Succinate Suffruticous Sulphate Sulphite Sulphuret Supreme Surbase Surbased Suspension Tablature Table Tartrateartrite Tellurate Tenor Tenure Theorbo Thievish Thorough-base Three-parted Tore Traduce Transmutation Trapezian Trappings Treble Trinervate Trinerve Tripartite Triply-ribbed Tripyramid Truncated Tungstate Tunic Turbinate Turpitude Umboldilite Underfoot Undershrub Undesigning Unequal Unequaled Unguiculate Ungula Unmanlike Unworthy Vaginant Vaginated Venomous Vermin Vertical Vild Vilely Vileness Vility Villain Villan Villanage Villanous Villanousness Villenage Viol Violoncello Violono Vitriolic Vulture Water Wedge-shaped Wield Woad Wrong Xanthogene Yttria Yttrium Zocco Zoccolo Zocle Zumate
Abase Abjection Accipiter Aceetate Acetary Acetite Acetous Acidule Acroter Adulterate Adz Allay Alloy Alloyage Alloying Altern Alumin Aluminum Amplexicaul Angel-fish Annular Annulet Antimoniate Antimonite Apophthegm Archilute Arillus Arseniate Arsenite Artichoke Asteropode Attic Aurate Auricle Axis B Bagpipe Balas Bald Bamboo Barytone Basal Base Base-viol Baseless Basely Basis Bass Bass-relief Bass-viol Basso-concertante Basso-continuo Basso-repieno Basso-violino Bassoon Baston Bear Beet-rave Bend Benzoate Bipartite Bird Bison Bombardo Bombiat Boracic Boracited Borate Boron Bottom Brucite Burden Calycle Calycled Calyculate Camphorate Carbonate Cere Cetate Chiastolite Chlorate Chondrodite Chromate Cincture Cinnamon Citrate Clasping Clivers Clod Coadunate Coiner Columbate Column Cone Confluent Connate Contaminate Continued Cormorant Counterpart Coward Cowardly Cullionly Cyanogen Cylindroid Dado Daphnate Dastardly Dastardy Decahedron Decurrent Deformed Degenerate Degenerately Degenerous Degenerously Degradation Degrading Deltoid Descant Dignity Dirtiness Dirty Dishonorable Dispart Ditrihedria Diving-bell Dodecahedron Dunghill Eagle Earth Elaolite Ellipsis Elops Embase Epidote Equicrural F Fee Ferro-cyanate Ferro-prussiate Ferro-silicate Fesels Filthy Fluate Fluoborate Flycatcher Foot Formiate Fructification Frustum Fungate Gallate Gazel Germ Glucin Glumous Grossbeak Ground Harlot Hastate Hautboy Hawk Hexahedron Honorable Hydriodate Hydrochlorate Hydrofluate Hydroguret Hydrogureted Hydroxanthate Hyperbaton Hypophosphite Hyposulphate Hyposulphite Hyposulphurous Ibis Ichnography Icosahedron Idocrase Ignoble Ignobly Incomparable Infamous Inherent Iodate Ioduret Ittrium Ivory Kinate Koba Kyanite Kyanogen Lactate Lampiate Laterifolious Ligulate Lithiate Low Lucre Magnesia Magnesium Malate Malignity Manganesiate Margarate Mean Meconiate Mellate Menispermate Metal Metalloid Miter Mixture Module Mole Muriate Nerved Neutralizer Nightshade Nitrate Nitrite Obverse Ochimy Octahedron Oleate Order Outrage Oxalate Oxyd Pale Parallelopiped Partite Patten Pedal Pedestal Pentahedral Perchlorate Perfoliate Philosopher Phosphate Phosphite Phosphuret Pil-garlick Platina Plinth Poltroonery Polypus Poor-spirited Poor-spiritedness Prism Profane Prostitute Prostituted Prussiate Purpurate Putid Pyramid Pyramoid Pyromalate Qualified Quinquepartite Radical Radix Rascality Rascally Receptacle Reclinate Rent Repentance Reproachful Rhoetizite Ribald Riot Root Saccholate Sagittate Salient Salifiable Salt Saponule Scotia Scoundrel Scoundrelism Screw Scullionly Scurrilousness Scurvily Sebate Seduce Seleniate Serpent Servant Servilely Servility Shaft Sheathed Silcia Silex Silicium Slaveish Slavishly Small Socage Sodium Sorbate Sordid Sordidly Sordidness Sort Spatulate Spodumene Sputter Stale Stamp Stem-clasping Stipe Stipel Stipula Strontian Strontium Style Sub-contrary Suberate Subhydrosulphuret Subject Subsalt Subsoil Subsulphate Succinate Suffruticous Sulphate Sulphite Sulphuret Supreme Surbase Surbased Suspension Tablature Table Tartrateartrite Tellurate Tenor Tenure Theorbo Thievish Thorough-base Three-parted Tore Traduce Transmutation Trapezian Trappings Treble Trinervate Trinerve Tripartite Triply-ribbed Tripyramid Truncated Tungstate Tunic Turbinate Turpitude Umboldilite Underfoot Undershrub Undesigning Unequal Unequaled Unguiculate Ungula Unmanlike Unworthy Vaginant Vaginated Venomous Vermin Vertical Vild Vilely Vileness Vility Villain Villan Villanage Villanous Villanousness Villenage Viol Violoncello Violono Vitriolic Vulture Water Wedge-shaped Wield Woad Wrong Xanthogene Yttria Yttrium Zocco Zoccolo Zocle Zumate
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