Word Meanings - SUBSPECIES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A group somewhat lessdistinct than speciesusually are, but based on characters more important than those which characterize ordinary varieties; often, a geographical variety or race.

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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.
• BASAL
  Relating to, or forming, the base. Basal cleavage. See under Cleavage. -- Basal plane , one parallel to the lateral or horizontal axis.
• 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.
• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• BASENESS
  The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness. I once did hold it a baseness to write fair. Shak.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• BASIGYNIUM
  The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.
• SOMEWHAT
  1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
• BASTARD
  F. b, a packsaddle used as a bed by the muleteers + -ard. OF. fils de bast son of the packsaddle; as the muleteers were accustomed to use their saddles for beds in the inns. See Cervantes, 1. A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of
• BASSET HORN
  An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves.
• 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.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• 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.
• DEMIBASTION
  A half bastion, or that part of a bastion consisting of one face and one flank.
• ALABASTRIAN
  Alabastrine.
• SELF-ABASED
  Humbled by consciousness of inferiority, unworthiness, guilt, or shame.
• SQUABASH
  To crush; to quash; to squash. Sir W. Scott.