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A yellow, crystalline, organic base, C13H12N2O, obtained artificially.

nnels used to decorate columns and pilasters in classical architecture. See Illust. under Base, n.

A method of analysis developed by Newton, and based on the conception of all magnitudes as generated by motion, and involving in their changes the notion of velocity or rate of change. Its results are the same as those of the differential and integral calculus, from which it differs little except in notation and logica…

ive out energy for a variable or intermitting resistance. See Fly, n., 9. -- On the fly (Baseball), still in the air; -- said of a batted ball caught before touching the ground..

t red or yellowish cap covered with irregular white spots. It has a distinct volva at the base, generally an upper ring on the stalk, and white spores. Called also fly agaric, deadly amanita.

al Europe. The wind, heated by compression in its descent from the mountains, reaches the base, particularly in winter, dry and warm.

The lowest part or base; the ground part; the bottom, as of a mountain or column; also, the last of a row or series; the end or extremity, esp. if associated with inferiority; as, the foot of a hill; the foot of the procession; the foot of a class; the foot of the bed. And now at foot Of heaven's ascent they lift their…

The plinth or base of a pillar.

The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course (see Base course (a), under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry.

A fig; -- a word of contempt. [Obs.] A foutra for the world and wordlings base! Shak.

A blusterer; a rowdy. [Obs.] Unpolished, a frapler, and base. B. Jonson.

Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage. Burrill.

The part of a solid next the base, formed by cutting off the, top; or the part of any solid, as of a cone, pyramid, etc., between two planes, which may be either parallel or inclined to each other.

The bottom or base of any hollow organ; as, the fundus of the bladder; the fundus of the eye.

A white, crystalline base, obtained indirectly from furfurol.

on), a perspective projection of the surface of a hemisphere upon a plane parallel to the base of the hemisphere, the point of sight being taken in the axis produced beyond the surface of the opposite hemisphere a distance equal to the radius of the sphere into the sine of 45º. -- Globular sailing, sailing on the arc…

A system of phonetic spelling based upon the present values of English letters, but invariably using one symbol to represent one sound only. Ingglish Glosik konvaiA. J. Ellis.

nd odorless, and with a hot, sweetish taste, existing in the natural fats and oils as the base, combined with various acids, as oleic, margaric, stearic, and palmitic. It is a triatomic alcohol, and hence is also called glycerol. See Note under Gelatin.

An organic base, C6H6N4, produced artificially as a white, crystalline powder, by the action of ammonia on glyoxal.

A white, crystalline, organic base, C3H4N2, produced by the action of ammonia on glyoxal, and forming the origin of a large class of derivatives hence, any one of the series of which glyoxaline is a type; -- called also oxaline.