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A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century. [Written also baslard.] Fairholt.

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

BASELY adv. 2 definitions

In a base manner; with despicable meanness; dishonorably; shamefully.

he outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively. Basement membrane (Anat.), a delicate membrane composed of a single layer of flat cells, forming the substratum upon which, in m…

The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness. I once did hold it a baseness to write fair. Shak.

See Bascinet. [Obs.]

To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance. [Obs.] His countenance was bold and bashed not. Spenser.

BASHAW n. 3 definitions

A Turkish title of honor, now written pasha. See Pasha.

BASHFUL a. 2 definitions

Abashed; daunted; dismayed. [Obs.]

In a bashful manner.

The quality of being bashful.

BASHI-BAZOUK n.

A soldier belonging to the irregular troops of the Turkish army.

Shameless; unblushing. [Obs.] Spenser.

A combining form, especially in anatomical and botanical words, to indicate the base or position at or near a base; forming a base; as, basibranchials, the most ventral of the cartilages or bones of the branchial arches; basicranial, situated at the base of the cranium; basifacial, basitemporal, etc.…

BASIC a. 4 definitions

Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.

BASIC PROCESS n.

A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.

A by-product from the manufacture of steel by the basic process, used as a fertilizer. It is rich in lime and contains 14 to 20 per cent of phosphoric acid. Called also Thomas slag, phosphatic slag, and odorless phosphate.

Steel produced by the basic process.

The second joint of the antennæ of crustaceans.