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One of the spinelike feathers at the base of the bill of certain birds.

xes; sextuple; -- applied especially to a system of arithmetical computation in which the base is six.

e or female; relating to the distinctive genital organs of the sexes; proceeding from, or based upon, sex; as, sexual characteristics; sexual intercourse, connection, or commerce; sexual desire; sexual diseases; sexual generation. Sexual dimorphism (Biol.), the condition of having one of the sexes existing in two forms…

joint (Anat.), a joint formed by a bony ring passing through a hole in a bone, as at the bases of spines in some fishes.

Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate.

The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.

at the end of a piece of timber, the part of the top of a type which projects beyond the base of the raised character, etc. Shoulder belt, a belt that passes across the shoulder. -- Shoulder blade (Anat.), the flat bone of the shoulder, to which the humerus is articulated; the scapula. -- Shoulder block (Naut.), a b…

A nitrogenous base, CO.(NH.C3H5)2, related to urea, extracted from mustard oil, and also produced artifically, as a white crystalline substance; -- called also diallyl urea.

The part of the head of a bird between the base of the bill and the vertex.

A hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only.

ion of the signs, as Saturn in Aries, and Mars in the same degree of Gemini. -- Sinister base, Sinister chief. See under Escutcheon.

l for skirts. Skirting board, the board running around a room on the wall next the floor; baseboard.

but yet is a great fault, and that which we call "reviling;" the latter is more mean and base, and that which we properly call "slander", or "Backbiting." Tillotson. [We] make the careful magistrate The mark of slander. B. Jonson.

A ball game, esp. a baseball game, in which there is much hard hitting of the ball. [Slang, U. S.]

A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance. The coat of arms Now on a naked snag in triumph borne. Dryden.

of the mouth is shut off from the pharynx by the approximation of the soft palate and the base of the tongue.

A plain block or plinth forming a low pedestal; any base; especially, the base of a statue, column, or the like. See Plinth.

n soap making. -- Soda niter. See Nitratine. -- Soda salts, salts having sodium for the base; specifically, sodium sulphate or Glauber's salts. -- Soda waste, the waste material, consisting chiefly of calcium hydroxide and sulphide, which accumulates as a useless residue or side product in the ordinary Leblanc proce…

A myth which essentially consists of allegory based upon ideas as to the sun's course, motion, influence, or the like.

Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. "To scorn the sordid world." Milton.