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The bass (Tilia) or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree. All the bowls were made of basswood, White and polished very smoothly. Longfellow.

The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom.

. -- Bath note, a folded writing paper, 8 1/2 by 14 inches. -- Bath stone, a species of limestone (oölite) found near Bath, used for building.

A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.

Impure limestone. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

A deciduous plant of warm climates, generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow color, of the genus Zygophyllum.

See Brooklime.

f That beetles o'er his base into the sea. Shak. Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime. Wordsworth.

By way of preparation, or preliminary; previously; aforetime. They may be taught beforehand the skill of speaking. Hooker.

The Statice limonium, or sea lavender.

Any climbing woody vine of the tropics with the habit of a liane; in the Philippines, esp. any of various species of Calamus, the cane or rattan palm.

peculiar vegetable acid, C6H5.CO2H, obtained from benzoin, and some other balsams, by sublimation or decoction. It is also found in the urine of infants and herbivorous animals. It crystallizes in the form of white, satiny flakes; its odor is aromatic; its taste is pungent, and somewhat acidulous. -- Benzoic aldehyde…

A long pole with a spike at the end, used in climbing mountains; an alpenstock.

atory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular debility, a painful rigidity of the limbs, and cachexy.

er betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. I is a woody climber with ovate manynerved leaves.

seed of the areca palm, chewed in the East with betel leaves (whence its name) and shell lime.

so dichloride. Bichloride of mercury, mercuric chloride; -- sometimes called corrosive sublimate.

A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B. capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus.

Any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a bine.

The winding or twining stem of a hop vine or other climbing plant.