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Word Meanings - BASED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Wearing, or protected by, bases. "Based in lawny velvet." E. Hall. (more info) 1. Having a base, or having as a base; supported; as, broad-based. 2. Etym:

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  • BASKING SHARK
    One of the largest species of sharks , so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver shark, or bone shark. It inhabits the northern seas of Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a harmless species.
  • BASIFY
    To convert into a salifiable base.
  • BASILIC; BASILICAL
    Pertaining to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle vein of the right arm. (more info) 1. Royal; kingly; also, basilican.
  • BASS VIOL
    A stringed instrument of the viol family, used for playing bass. See 3d Bass, n., and Violoncello.
  • BASSWOOD
    The bass or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree. All the bowls were made of basswood, White and polished very smoothly. Longfellow.
  • BASTARDLY
    Bastardlike; baseborn; spuripous; corrupt. -- adv.
  • BASKET BALL
    A game, usually played indoors, in which two parties of players contest with each other to toss a large inflated ball into opposite goals resembling baskets.
  • GROUNDWORK
    That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
  • BASAL
    Relating to, or forming, the base. Basal cleavage. See under Cleavage. -- Basal plane , one parallel to the lateral or horizontal axis.
  • GROUNDEN
    p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
  • DOMICILIAR
    A member of a household; a domestic.
  • BASINET
    See BASCINET
  • BASED
    Wearing, or protected by, bases. "Based in lawny velvet." E. Hall. (more info) 1. Having a base, or having as a base; supported; as, broad-based. 2. Etym:
  • BASIFIER
    That which converts into a salifiable base.
  • BASTE
    To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting. 3. To mark with tar, as sheep. (more info) 1. To beat with a stick; to cudgel. One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the
  • BASICITY
    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.
  • ROOTCAP
    A mass of parenchym
  • BASENESS
    The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness. I once did hold it a baseness to write fair. Shak.
  • GROUNDNUT
    The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus
  • BASIGYNIUM
    The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.
  • MISGROUND
    To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
  • POLYBASIC
    Capable of neutralizing, or of combining with, several molecules of a monacid base; having several hydrogen atoms capable of being replaced by basic radicals; -- said of certain acids; as, sulphuric acid is polybasic.
  • POLYBASITE
    An iron-black ore of silver, consisting of silver, sulphur, and antimony, with some copper and arsenic.
  • REFIX
    To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
  • PROOTIC; PROOETIC
    In front of the auditory capsule; -- applied especially to a bone, or center of ossification, in the periotic capsule. -- n.
  • UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
    Wildcat insurance.
  • AFFIX
    figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
  • DEFIX
    To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
  • PLAYGROUND
    A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
  • UNBASHFUL
    Not bashful or modest; bold; impudent; shameless. Shak.
  • CALABASH
    Calebasse), lit., a dry gourd, fr. Ar. qar', fem., a kind of gourd + 1. The common gourd . 2. The fruit of the calabash tree. 3. A water dipper, bottle, backet, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd. Calabash tree.

 

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