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A base, station, or bound used in various games; in football, a line between two posts across which the ball must pass in order to score; also, the act of kicking the ball over the line between the goal posts. Goal keeper, the player charged with the defense of the goal.

Same as Basedow's disease.

e green glands in Crustacea, supposed to serve as kidneys. They have their outlets at the bases of the larger antennæ. -- Green hand, a novice. [Colloq.] -- Green heart (Bot.), the wood of a lauraceous tree found in the West Indies and in South America, used for shipbuilding or turnery. The green heart of Jamaica and…

merly applied rather loosely to certain dark-colored igneous rocks, including diorite, diabase, etc.

ley or worms, etc., thrown into the water to collect the fish, Wallon. -- Ground bass or base (Mus.), fundamental base; a fundamental base continually repeated to a varied melody. -- Ground beetle (Zoöl.), one of numerous species of carnivorous beetles of the family Carabidæ, living mostly in burrows or under stones,…

To tend toward, or delight in, what is sensual or base; to be low, abject, or mean.

Lying prone; low; debased. [Written also grovelling.] "A groveling creature." Cowper.

A strongly alkaline base, CN3H5, formed by the oxidation of guanin, and also obtained combined with methyl in the decomposition of creatin. Boiled with dilute sulphuric acid, it yields urea and ammonia.

Pertaining to, or having, a gynobase.

To deal in small wares. [R.] To haberdash in earth's base ware. Quarles.

A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird.

A minor subdivision at the base of the Cambrian system in Wales.

Wanton; lewd; low; base. Shak.

oöl.), a small dipterous fly or midge (Cecidomyia destructor). Its larvæ live between the base of the lower leaves and the stalk of wheat, and are very destructive to young wheat; -- so called from the erroneous idea that it was brought into America by the Hessian troops, during the Revolution.

A suborder of Hemiptera, in which the base of the anterior wings is thickened. See Hemiptera.

Having six hydrogen atoms or six radicals capable of being replaced or saturated by bases; -- said of acids; as, mellitic acid is hexabasic.

x atoms or radicals capable of being replaced by acids; hexatomic; hexavalent; -- said of bases; as, mannite is a hexacid base.

A base, menial wretch. -- a.

ean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support; -- called also hile.

state of being in one's right or sane mind (after unconsciousness, passion, delirium, or abasement); as, the man has come to himself. By himself, alone; unaccompanied; apart; sequestered; as, he sits or studies by himself. -- To leave one to himself, to withdraw from him; to let him take his own course.…