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The quality or state of being a base.

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.

A spore borne by a basidium. -- Ba*sid`i*o*spor"ous (, a.

orm cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example.

That which converts into a salifiable base.

Tending or proceeding away from the base; as, a basifugal growth.

To convert into a salifiable base.

The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.

Noting two small bones, forming the body of the inverted hyoid arch.

The central tongue bone.

The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground. Grier.

Relating to, or situated at, the base.

Basilica.

Royal; kingly; also, basilican.

king; but afterward, an apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; and hence, any large hall used for this purpose.

Of, relating to, or resembling, a basilica; basilical. There can be no doubt that the first churches in Constantinople were in the basilican form. Milman.

The basilisk. [Obs.] Chaucer

An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance.

its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice. Make me not sighted like the basilisk. Shak.

A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.