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A person having a voice of such range.

Having the nerves radiating from the base; -- said of leaves.

Having a base, or having as a base; supported; as, broad-based.

Without a base; having no foundation or support. "The baseless fabric of this vision." Shak.

Having the base in excess, or the amount of the base atomically greater than that of the acid, or exceeding in proportion that of the related neutral salt.

A large subdivision of fungi coördinate with the Ascomycetes, characterized by having the spores borne on a basidium. It embraces those fungi best known to the public, such as mushrooms, toadstools, etc.

stagecoach. [Eng.] Goldsmith. Basket fish (Zoöl.), an ophiuran of the genus Astrophyton, having the arms much branched. See Astrophyton. -- Basket hilt, a hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork to protect the hand. Hudibras. Hence, Baskethilted, a. -- Basket work, work consisting of plaited osiers or twigs. -…

A group of Pulmonifera having the eyes at the base of the tentacles, including the common pond snails.

The largest of the different kinds of drums, having two heads, and emitting a deep, grave sound. See Bass, a.

ile intermediate between the coarsest and the second cut. -- Bastard type (Print.), type having the face of a larger or a smaller size than the body; e.g., a nonpareil face on a brevier body. -- Bastard wing (Zoöl.), three to five quill feathers on a small joint corresponding to the thumb in some mam malia; the alula…

Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.

Pertaining to, or having the nature of, a basyle; electro- positive; basic; -- opposed to chlorous. Graham.

batement; diminution. Moxon. Batement light (Arch.), a window or one division of a window having vertical sides, but with the sill not horizontal, as where it follows the rake of a staircase.

Having the character of bathos. [R.]

An armor-plated man-of-war built of steel and heavily armed, generally having from ten thousand to fifteen thousand tons displacement, and intended to be fit to meet the heaviest ships in line of battle.

Having battlements. A battlemented portal. Sir W. Scott.

Having a bay or bays. "The large bayed barn." Drayton.

y or as a product of thought; to exist as the subject of a certain predicate, that is, as having a certain attribute, or as belonging to a certain sort, or as identical with what is specified, -- a word or words for the predicate being annexed; as, to be happy; to be here; to be large, or strong; to be an animal; to be…

Having a beach or beaches; formed by a beach or beaches; shingly. The beachy girdle of the ocean. Shak.

Having no beacon.