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Same as Prison base.

grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to debase the character by crime; to debase the mind by frivolity; to debase style by vulgar words. The coin which was adulterated and debased. Hale. It is a kind of taking God's name in vain to debase religion with such…

Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed.

The act of debasing or the state of being debased. Milton.

One who, or that which, debases.

A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone.

To debase or degrade. [Obs.] Nor you nor your house were so much as spoken of before I disbased myself. B. Jonson.

To bring down or lower, as in position, value, etc.; to debase; to degrade; to deteriorate. [Obs.] Embased the valleys, and embossed the hills. Sylvester. Alloy in coin of gold . . . may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. Bacon. Such pitiful embellishments of speech as serve for nothing but to embase d…

Act of bringing down; depravation; deterioration. South.

A dilated base or receptacle, supporting a multilocular ovary.

See Embase.

Same as Tetrahedrite.

A short cylinder connecting a trunnion with the body of a cannon. See Illust. of Cannon.

The calcareous or hornlike coral forming the central stem or axis of most compound alcyonarians; -- called also foot secretion. See Illust. under Gorgoniacea, and Coenenchyma. -- Scler`o*ba"sic, a.

Humbled by consciousness of inferiority, unworthiness, guilt, or shame.

Humiliation or abasement proceeding from consciousness of inferiority, guilt, or shame.

The lowest member of a base when divided horizontally, or of a baseboard, pedestal, or the like.

A cornice, or series of moldings, on the top of the base of a pedestal, podium, etc. See Illust. of Column.

Having a surbase, or molding above the base. (b) Etym: [F. surbaissé.]

The figure inclosed by lines through the points contact of the wheels of a vehicle, etc., with the surface or rails on which they run; more esp., the length of this figure between the points of contact of the two extreme wheels on either side.