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Bastardlike; baseborn; spuripous; corrupt. [Obs.] -- adv.

ifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.

To deprive of. [Obs.] When baseness is exalted, do not bate The place its honor for the person's sake. Herbert.

The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc.

0º in a 10 per cent salt solution and to 10º in pure water. In both cases the graduation, based on the distance between these fundamental points, is continued along the stem as far as desired. Since all the degrees on a Baumé scale are thus equal in length, while those on a specific- gravity scale grow smaller as the d…

The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds

A qualitative test for cottonseed oil, based on the fact this oil imparts a maroon color to an alcoholic solution of silver nitrate.

piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed; -- called also baseplate and soleplate.

To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut. To the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea. Shak. Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime. Wordsworth.

-- Bench show, an exhibition of dogs. -- Bench table (Arch.), a projecting course at the base of a building, or round a pillar, sufficient to form a seat.

part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base. Bend sinister (Her.), an honorable ordinary drawn from the sinister chief to the dexter base.

A salt formed by the union of benzoic acid with any salifiable base.

A compound radical, C6H5.CO; the base of benzoic acid, of the oil of bitter almonds, and of an extensive series of compounds. [Formerly written also benzule.]

A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.

A nitrogenous base, C5H11NO2, produced artificially, and also occurring naturally in beetroot molasses and its residues, from which it is extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- called also lycine and oxyneurine. It has a sweetish taste.

rogen atoms which can be replaced by negative atoms or radicals to form salts; -- said of bases. See Diacid.

Having two earlike projections at its base, as a leaf.

An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage.

A salt having two equivalents of arsenic acid to one of the base. Graham.

A salt having two equivalents of oxalic acid to one of the base; an acid oxalate.