Webster's Dictionary 1913

892

Bashaw

Ba‐shaw″ (�), n. [See Pasha.] 1. A Turkish title of honor, now written pasha. See Pasha.2. Fig.: A magnate or grandee.3. (Zoöl.) A very large siluroid fish (Leptops olivaris) of...

893

Bashful

Bash″ful (băsh″fụl), a. [See Bash.] 1. Abashed; daunted; dismayed.2. Very modest, or modest to excess; constitutionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme...

894

Bashfully

Bash″ful‐ly, adv. In a bashful manner.

895

Bashfulness

Bash″ful‐ness, n. The quality of being bashful.Syn. — Bashfulness, Modesty, Diffidence, Shyness. Modesty arises from a low estimate of ourselves; bashfulness is an abashment or ...

896

Bashi-bazouk

‖Bash″i–ba‐zouk″ (băsh″ĭ‐bȧ‐zo͞ok″), n. A soldier belonging to the irregular troops of the Turkish army.

897

Bashless

Bash″less, a. Shameless; unblushing. Spenser.

898

Bashyle

Bas″hyle (�), n.(Chem.) See Basyle.

899

Basi-

Ba″si– (�). A combining form, especially in anatomical and botanical words, to indicate the base or position at or near a base; forming a base; as, basibranchials, the most vent...

900

Basic

Ba″sic (�), a. 1. (Chem.) (a) Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt. (b) Having the base in excess, or the amount of the base atomically greater than tha...

901

Basic process

Ba″sic proc″ess. (Iron Metal.) A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are mad...

902

Basic slag

Basic slag. A by-product from the manufacture of steel by the basic process, used as a fertilizer. It is rich in lime and contains 14 to 20 per cent of phosphoric acid. Called a...

903

Basic steel

Basic steel. Steel produced by the basic process.

904

Basicerite

Ba‐sic″er‐ite (bȧ‐sĭs″ẽr‐ōt), n. [Basi- + Gr. κέρασ horn, antenna.] (Zoöl.) The second joint of the antennæ of crustaceans.

905

Basicity

Ba‐sic″i‐ty, n.(Chem.) (a) The quality or state of being a base. (b) The power of an acid to unite with one or more atoms or equivalents of a base, as indicated by the number of...

906

Basidiomycetes

‖Ba‐sid′i‐o‐my‐ce″tes (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. NL. & E. basidium + Gr. �, �, fungus.] (Bot.) A large subdivision of fungi coördinate with the Ascomycetes, characterized by having t...

907

Basidiospore

Ba‐sid″i‐o‐spore (�), n. [Basidium + spore.] (Bot.) A spore borne by a basidium. — Ba‐sid′i‐o‐spor″ous (�), a.

908

Basidium

‖Ba‐sid″i‐um (�), n. [NL., dim. of Gr. βάσισ base.] (Bot.) A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basi...

909

Basifier

Ba″si‐fi′er (�), n.(Chem.) That which converts into a salifiable base.

910

Basifugal

Ba‐sif″u‐gal (�), a. [Base, n. + L. fugere to flee.] (Bot.) Tending or proceeding away from the base; as, a basifugal growth.

911

Basify

Ba″si‐fy (�), v. t. [Base + -fy.] (Chem.) To convert into a salifiable base.

912

Basigynium

‖Ba′si‐gyn″i‐um (�), n. [NL., fr. Gr. βασισ base + γυνη woman.] (Bot.) The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or theca...

913

Basihyal

Ba′si‐hy″al (�), a. [Basi- + Gr. υ (the letter “upsilon”); from the shape.] (Anat.) Noting two small bones, forming the body of the inverted hyoid arch.

914

Basihyoid

Ba′si‐hy″oid (�), n. [Basi- + hyoid.] (Anat.) The central tongue bone.

915

Basil

Bas″il (băz″ĭl), n. [Cf. F. basile and E. Bezel.] The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground. Grier.

916

Basil (2)

Bas″il, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Basiled (�); p. pr. & vb. n.Basiling.] To grind or form the edge of to an angle. Moxon.

917

Basil (3)

Bas″il, n. [F. basilic, fr. L. basilicus royal, Gr. βασιλικόσ fr. βασιλεύσ king.] (Bot.) The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common o...

918

Basil (4)

Bas″il (băz″ĭl), n. [Corrupt. from E. basan, F. basane, LL. basanium, bazana, fr. Ar. bithāna, prop., lining.] The skin of a sheep tanned with bark.