BASE-MINDED
BA'SE-MINDED, adjective Of a low spirit or mind; mean.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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BASE-MINDEDNESS
BA'SE-MINDEDNESS, noun Meanness of spirit.
BASE-STRING
BA'SE-STRING, noun The lowest note.
BASE-VIOL
BA'SE-VIOL, noun [See Viol.] A musical instrument, used for playing the base or gravest part.
BASED
BA'SED, participle passive Reduced in value; founded.
BASELESS
BA'SELESS, adjective Without a base; having no foundation, or support.The baseless fabric of a vision.The fame how poor that swells our baseless pride.
BASELY
BA'SELY, adverb In a base manner; meanly; dishonorable.2. Illegitimately; in bastardy.
BASEMENT
BA'SEMENT, noun In architecture, the ground floor, on which the order or columns which decorate the principal story, are placed.
BASENESS
BA'SENESS, noun Meanness; vileness; worthlessness.2. Vileness of metal; the quality of being of little comparative value.3. Bastardy; illegitimacy of birth.4. Deepness of sound.
BASENET
BA'SENET, noun A helmet.
BASH
BASH, verb intransitive [Heb.bosh, to be cast down, or confounded. See Abash.]To be ashamed; to be confounded with shame.
BASHAW
BASHAW', noun [This word is often written most absurdly pasha, both by the English and Americans. It should be written and pronounced pashaw.]1. A title of honor in the Turkish ...
BASHFUL
BASH'FUL, adjective [See Bash and Abash.]1. Properly, having a downcast look; hence very modest.2. Modest to excess; sheepish.3. Exciting shame.50
BASHFULLY
BASH'FULLY, adverb Very modestly; in a timorous manner.
BASHFULNESS
BASH'FULNESS, noun Excessive or extreme modesty; a quality of mind often visible in external appearance, as in blushing, a downcast look, confusion. etc.2. Vicious or rustic shame.
BASHLESS
BASH'LESS, a Shameless; unblushing.
BASIL
BAS'IL, noun s as z. The slope or angle of a tool or instrument as of a chisel or plane; usually of 12 degrees, but for hard wood, 18 degrees.BAS'IL, verb transitive To grind or...
BASIL-WEED
BAS'IL-WEED, noun Wild basil, a plant of the genus Clinopodium.
BASILAR
BAS'ILARBAS'ILARY, adjective s as z. [See Basilic.]Chief; an anatomical term applied to several bones, and to an artery of the brain.Basilian monks, monks of the order of St. Ba...
BASILARY
BAS'ILARY, a. s as z. [See Basilic.]Chief; an anatomical term applied to several bones, and to an artery of the brain.Basilian monks, monks of the order of St. Basil, who founde...
BASILIC
BAS'ILIC, noun s as z. [Latin basilica; Gr. a king.]Anciently, a public hall or court of judicature, where princes and magistrates sat to administer justice. It was a large hall...
BASILICAL
BASIL'ICAL, adjective Belonging to the middle vein of the arm.2. Noting a particular nut, the walnut, basilica nux.BASILICAL, adjective s as z. In the manner of a public edifice...
BASILICON
BASIL'ICON, noun s as z. [Gr.royal.]An ointment. This name is given to several compositions in ancient medical writers. At present it is confined to three officinal ointments, d...
BASILISK
BAS'ILISK, noun s as z. [Latin basiliscus.]1. A fabulous serpent, called a cockatrice, and said to be produced from a cock's egg brooded by a serpent. The ancients alledged that...
BASIN
BA'SIN, noun basn.1. A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.2. In hydraulics, any reservoir of water.3. That which resembles a basin in c...
BASIS
BA'SIS, nounplural bases. [Latin and Gr.; the same as base, which see.]1. The foundation of any thing; that on which a thing stands or lies; the bottom or foot of the thing itse...
BASK
B'ASK, verb intransitive [The origin of this word is not obvious.]To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat; to be at ease and thriving under benign influences; as, to bask...