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.

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.

A stringed instrument of the viol family, used for playing bass. See 3d Bass, n., and Violoncello.

Same as Bas-relief.

a division of mammals, in some classifications considered a separate family.

a genus comprising the cacomistles. See bassarisk.

A raccoonlike omnivorous mammal (Bassariscus astutus) of Mexico and southwestern U. S. having a long bushy tail with black and white rings.

See Bashaw.

To incline upward so as to appear at the surface; to crop out; as, a vein of coal bassets.

An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves; The corno di bassetto.

The capital city of St. Kitts and Nevis. Population (2000) = 19,000.

The upward direction of a vein in a mine; the emergence of a stratum at the surface.

A tenor or small bass viol.

Coarse leaf fiber from palmyra palms used in making brushes and brooms.

A wicker basket, with a covering or hood over one end, in which young children are placed as in a cradle.

The bass or lowest part; as, to sing basso. One who sings the lowest part. The double bass, or contrabasso.

Same as Bas-relief.

A hassock. See 2d Bass, 2.

A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc.

A performer on the bassoon.

A constituent part of a species of gum from Bassora, as also of gum tragacanth and some gum resins. It is one of the amyloses.

The bass (Tilia) or its wood; especially, Tilia Americana. See Bass, the lime tree.

The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom.

Enough; stop.

To bastardize.

An act that debases or corrupts.

Same as bastardize.

The state of being a bastard; bastardy.

An act that debases or corrupts.

To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.

deriving from more than one source or style.

Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt. In the manner of a bastard; spuriously.

The state of being a bastard; illegitimacy.

To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.

To bastinado.

To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet.

Loose temporary stitches.

A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin.

Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.