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A furnace or stove in which the fuel is contained in a hopper or chamber, and is fed to the fire as the lower stratum is consumed.

The secondary, inferior, or rear courtyard of a large house; the outer court of a castle.

A game of ball, so called from the bases or bounds ( four in number) which designate the circuit which each player must endeavor to make after striking the ball.

d, or other woodwork, carried round the walls of a room and touching the floor, to form a base and protect the plastering; -- also called washboard (in England), mopboard, and scrubboard.

Vile; mean. "Thy baseborn heart." Shak.

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

A disease characterized by enlargement of the thyroid gland, prominence of the eyeballs, and inordinate action of the heart; -- called also exophthalmic goiter. Flint.

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.

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

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 many organs, the epithelioid cells…

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.

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

Abashed; daunted; dismayed. [Obs.]

In a bashful manner.

The quality of being bashful.

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