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Pertaining to or forming the wing of the sphenoid; relating to a bone in the base of the skull, which in the adult is often consolidated with the sphenoid; as, alisphenoid bone; alisphenoid canal.

One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, potash, ammoma, and lithia, whose distinguishing peculiarities are solubility in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue. Fixed a…

An organic base, especially one of a class of substances occurring ready formed in the tissues of plants and the bodies of animals.

To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate. [Archaic] Fuller.

A combination of alloxanic acid and a base or base or positive radical.

A baser metal mixed with a finer. Fine silver is silver without the mixture of any baser metal. Alloy is baser metal mixed with it. Locke.

Acting by turns; alternate. Milton. Altern base (Trig.), a second side made base, in distinction from a side previously regarded as base.

The perpendicular distance from the base of a figure to the summit, or to the side parallel to the base; as, the altitude of a triangle, pyramid, parallelogram, frustum, etc.

The metallic base of alumina. This metal is white, but with a bluish tinge, and is remarkable for its resistance to oxidation, and for its lightness, pertaining a specific gravity of about 2.6. Atomic weight 27.08. Symbol Al. Aluminium bronze or gold, a pale gold- colored alloy of aluminium and copper, used for journal…

s style. A giant statue . . . Pushed by a wild and artless race, From off wide, ambitious base. Collins.

A salt formed by the combination of ambreic acid with a base or positive radical.

station, where troops or enemies lie in wait to attack by surprise. Bold in close ambush, base in open field. Dryden.

A salt of the class formed by the combination of an acid and a base, or by the union of two oxides, two sulphides, selenides, or tellurides, as distinguished from a haloid compound. [R.] Berzelius.

Clasping or embracing a stem, as the base of some leaves. Gray.

dip of strata. -- Angle shaft (Arch.), an enriched angle bead, often having a capital or base, or both. -- Curvilineal angle, one formed by two curved lines. -- External angles, angles formed by the sides of any right-lined figure, when the sides are produced or lengthened. -- Facial angle. See under Facial. -- In…

A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.

An organic base belonging to the phenylamines. It may be regarded as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radical phenyl. It is a colorless, oily liquid, originally obtained from indigo by distillation, but now largely manufactured from coal tar or nitrobenzene as a base from which many brilliant…

kening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

A compound of antimonic acid with a base or basic radical. [Written also antimoniate.]

A compound of antimonious acid and a base or basic radical.