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Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit. The cowardice of doing wrong. Milton. Moderation was despised as cowardice. Macualay.

Cowardly. [Obs.] " A base and a cowardish mind." Robynson (More's Utopia).

Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless. The cowardly rascals that ran from the battle. Shak.

In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; -- so called from a fancied similarity between its arm and the neck of a crane See Illust. Of Derrick.

The upper curve of a horse's neck. Throwing the base thong from his bending crest. Shak.

To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn. When they were come up to the place where the lions were, the boys that went before were glad to cringe behind, for they were afraid of the lions. Bunyan. Sly hypocri…

A salt formed by the union of croconic acid with a base.

ragm, a pair of muscles attached to it; crura cerebri, two bundles of nerve fibers in the base of the brain, connecting the medulla and the forebrain.

One of the quinoline bases, obtained from coal tar as an oily liquid, C11H11N; also, any one of several substances metameric with, and resembling, cryptidine proper.

Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue violet.

A mean wretch; a base fellow; a poltroon; a scullion. "Away, base cullions." Shak.

Mean; base. Shak.

A strong, liquid, organic base, C3H7.C6H4.NH2, homologous with aniline.

Wedge-shaped; (Bot.), wedge-shaped, with the point at the base; as, a cuneate leaf.

ling, a cycloid; as, the cycloidal space is the space contained between a cycloid and its base. Cycloidal engine. See Geometric lathe.

A solid body resembling a right cylinder, but having the bases or ends elliptical.

A liquid organic base, C10H13.NH2, derived from cymene.

That part of a pedestal included between the base and the cornice (or surbase); the die. See Illust. of Column. Hence:

A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America; -- so named from the region where the strata were first studied.

The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base fear.