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effort; to devise; to invent; to contrive, as, to strike out a new plan of finance. (d) (Baseball) To cause a player to strike out; -- said of the pitcher. See To strike out, under Strike, v. i. -- To strike sail. See under Sail. -- To strike up. (a) To cause to sound; to begin to beat. "Strike up the drums." Shak.…

A cushionlike swelling on any organ; especially, that at the base of the capsule in many mosses.

The uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported. See Sub-base.

An expansion at the base of the style, as in umbelliferous plants.

Near the base.

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

stop, or the lowest tones of an organ; the fundamental or ground bass. [Written also sub-base.] Ayliffe.

or being in, a contrary order; -- said of a section of an oblique cone having a circular base made by a plane not parallel to the base, but so inclined to the axis that the section is a circle; applied also to two similar triangles when so placed as to have a common angle at the vertex, the opposite sides not being pa…

he principal theme, or leading thought or phrase, on which a composition or a movement is based. The earliest known form of subject is the ecclesiastical cantus firmus, or plain song. Rockstro.

Situated under, or at the bases of, the lobules of the liver.

Concealed within the base of the petiole, as the leaf buds of the plane tree.

a subsesqui acetate, i. e., a salt having two equivalents of acetic acid to three of the base.

A group somewhat lessdistinct than speciesusually are, but based on characters more important than those which characterize ordinary varieties; often, a geographical variety or race.

. -- Substantive color, one which communicates its color without the aid of a mordant or base; -- opposed to adjective color.

neath something; to lay as the foundation. [R.] He substructs the religion of Asia as the base. Emerson.

ilding; the foundation, or any preliminary structure intended to raise the lower floor or basement of a building above the natural level of the ground. It is a magnificent strong building, with a substruction very remarkable. Evelyn.

A sulphate with an excess of the base.

Very narrow, and tapering gradually to a fine point from a broadish base; awl-shaped; linear.

Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one is covered by the base of the next higher leaf, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Plagiochila.

A compound of sucrose (or of some related carbohydrate) with some base, after the analogy of a salt; as, sodium sucrate.