A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead; a tumulus.
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A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1593.
A diminutive of the bar, having one fourth its width.
Traversed by barrulets or small bars; -- said of the field.
Divided into bars; -- said of the field.
The common perch. See 1st Bass.
an abbreviation of baronet.
A barkeeper.
The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods.
One who barters.
Barter.
A place of shelter for cattle.
A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.
A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchr/tien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.
The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself.
See Bertram.
A passage into a field or yard, closed by bars made to take out of the posts.
Horizontally.
A red wood of a leguminous tree (Baphia nitida), from Angola and the Gabon in Africa. It is used as a dyewood, and also for ramrods, violin bows and turner's work.
the point representing the mean position of the matter in a body.
Of or pertaining to the center of gravity. See Barycentric calculus, under Calculus.
any of the elementary particles having a mass equal to or greater than that of a proton and that participate in strong interactions; a hadron with a baryon number of +1.
Difficulty of speech.
The heavy interior portion of the earth, within the lithosphere.
An oxide of barium (or barytum); a heavy earth with a specific gravity above 4.
Barium sulphate, generally called heavy spar or barite. See Barite.
Of or pertaining to baryta.
A mineral of a white or gray color, occurring massive or crystallized. It is a compound of the carbonates of barium and calcium.
The metal barium. See Barium.
Low relief; sculpture, the figures of which project less than half of their true proportions; -- called also bass-relief and basso-rilievo. See Alto-rilievo.
Relating to, or forming, the base.
Having the nerves radiating from the base; -- said of leaves.
A rock of igneous origin, consisting of augite and triclinic feldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also bottle-green particles of olivine frequently disseminated.
Pertaining to basalt; formed of, or containing, basalt; as basaltic lava.
In the form of basalt; columnar.
Formed like basalt; basaltiform.
Same as Basil, a sheepskin.
Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal.
A bluestocking; a literary woman.
A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a visor.
In mechanics, an apparatus on the principle of the seesaw, in which one end rises as the other falls.
To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower.
a unit of double-stranded DNA or RNA consisting of two complementary bases on opposing strands of the double-stranded polynucleotide, bound together by hydrogen bonds and other non-covalent chemical forces. The bases comprising the base pairs are adenine, thymine, cytidine, and guanine. In normal DNA, the base adenine on one strand of DNA pairs with thymine on the opposite strand, and cytosine on one strand pairs with guanine on the opposite strand. The term base pair usually includes the sugar (ribose or deoxyribose) and the phosphate bound to each base to form a nucleotide unit. One base pair is sometimes used as a unit of length or size for DNA, and in this usage is abbreviated bp; as, a 100-bp fragment of DNA. A length of 1000 base pairs is a kilobase pair or kbp.
the initial price of something (goods or services) without the additional charges that may be added, such as handling or shipping charges, sales tax, optional equipment charges, etc.
A furnace or stove in which the fuel is contained in a hopper or chamber, and is fed to the fire as the lower stratum is consumed.
The secondary, inferior, or rear courtyard of a large house; the outer court of a castle.
causing formation of an alkali.
A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds (four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striking the ball.
A board, or other woodwork, carried round the walls of a room and touching the floor, to form a base and protect the plastering; -- also called washboard (in England), mopboard, and scrubboard.
Born out of wedlock.
Having a base, or having as a base; supported; as, broad-based.
A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century.
Without a base; having no foundation or support.
an imaginary line or standard by which things are measured or compared; as, they established a baseline for the budget.
In a base manner; with despicable meanness; dishonorably; shamefully.
The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. (See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively.
The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness.
See Bascinet.
a forceful blow, especially one that does damage to its target.
A Turkish title of honor, now written pasha. See Pasha.
Abashed; daunted; dismayed.
In a bashful manner.
The quality of being bashful.
A soldier belonging to the irregular troops of the Turkish army.
Shameless; unblushing.
See Basyle.
Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt. Having the base in excess, or the amount of the base atomically greater than that of the acid, or exceeding in proportion that of the related neutral salt. Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.
an artificial computer language with a relatively simplified instruction set.
The second joint of the antenn/ of crustaceans.
The quality or state of being a base. The power of an acid to unite with one or more atoms or equivalents of a base, as indicated by the number of replaceable hydrogen atoms contained in the acid.
a statement of fundamental facts or principles.
of or pertaining to a basidium.
a lichen in which the fungus component is a basidiomycete.
any of various fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota.
a phylum of fungi with the Basidiomycota
of or pertaining to basidiomycetes.
A large subdivision of the kingdom Fungi coextensive with the phylum Basidiomycetes, characterized by having the spores borne on a basidium. It embraces those fungi best known to the public, such as mushrooms, toadstools, etc. Among the classes of the Basidiomycota are: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi).
same as Basidiomycota.
A spore borne by a basidium.
of or pertaining to a basidiospore.
A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example.
That which converts into a salifiable base.
Tending or proceeding away from the base; as, a basifugal growth.
To convert into a salifiable base.
The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.
Noting two small bones, forming the body of the inverted hyoid arch.
The central tongue bone.
The skin of a sheep tanned with bark.
Relating to, or situated at, the base.
a ruler of the eastern Roman Empire.
Basilica.
A digest of the laws of Justinian, translated from the original Latin into Greek, by order of Basil I., in the ninth century.
Royal; kingly; also, basilican.
Of, relating to, or resembling, a basilica; basilical.
The basilisk.
An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance.
A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice.
of or pertaining to a basin.
Inclosed in a basin.
Same as Bascinet.
Of or pertaining to the bone in the base of the cranium, frequently forming a part of the occipital in the adult, but usually distinct in the young. The basioccipital bone.
The middle of the anterior margin of the great foramen of the skull.
The basal joint of the legs of Crustacea.
A bar of cartilage at the base of the embryonic fins of some fishes. It develops into the metapterygium.
Applied to a protuberance of the base of the sphenoid bone.
The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests.
Prolonged at the base, as certain leaves.
The basisphenoid bone.
Of or pertaining to that part of the base of the cranium between the basioccipital and the presphenoid, which usually ossifies separately in the embryo or in the young, and becomes a part of the sphenoid in the adult.
To warm by continued exposure to heat; to warm with genial heat.
To put into a basket.
A ball game, usually played indoors in an area called the basketball court, in which two opposing teams of five players each contest with each other to toss a large inflated ball (the basketball) into opposite goals (baskets) resembling baskets, each typically a cylindrical mesh suspended from a circular rim which is held ten feet above the court. A goal scored by passing the basketball through the basket may count from one to three points, depending on the situation in which it was thrown.
As much as a basket will contain.
The art of making baskets; also, baskets, taken collectively.
Same as Bascinet.
A group of Pulmonifera having the eyes at the base of the tentacles, including the common pond snails.
A basin.
One of a race, of unknown origin, inhabiting a region on the Bay of Biscay in Spain and France.
Pertaining to the country, people, or language of Biscay; Basque
To sound in a deep tone.
The largest of the different kinds of drums, having two heads, and emitting a deep, grave sound. See Bass, a.
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