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The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron.

A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead; a tumulus.

is opponents, is able to reach the first base without being put out. -- Base line. (a) A main line taken as a base, as in surveying or in military operations. (b) A line traced round a cannon at the rear of the vent. -- Base plate, the foundation plate of heavy machinery, as of the steam engine; the bed plate. -- Ba…

A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank…

An army in battle array; also, the main battalia or body. [Obs.] Shak.

The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia. [Obs.] Hayward.

A small body of water set off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just outside of the gates of a lock, etc.

Money paid for the maintenance of a beacon; also, beacons, collectively.

A degree of strength in alcoholic liquor as shown by beads or small bubbles remaining on its surface, or at the side of the glass, when shaken.

art of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.

The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.

To carry on, or maintain; to have. "The credit of bearing a part in the conversation." Locke.

Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining. We can not be sure that there is no evidence behind. Locke.

settlement, or inhabitancy, whether by birth or operation of law, so as to be entitled to maintenance by the parish or town. Bastards also are settled in the parishes to which the mothers belong. Blackstone.

d church preferment, as in the Church of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service. See Advowson.

A liquid consisting mainly of the lighter and more volatile hydrocarbons of petroleum or kerosene oil, used as a solvent and for cleansing soiled fabrics; -- called also petroleum spirit, petroleum benzine. Varieties or similar products are gasoline, naphtha, rhigolene, ligroin, etc.

To remain; to continue or be permanent in a place or state; to continue to be. Shak.

which collects in the bilge or bottom of a ship or other vessel. It is often allowed to remain till it becomes very offensive. -- Bilge ways, the timbers which support the cradle of a ship upon the ways, and which slide upon the launching ways in launching the vessel.

That binds; obligatory. Binding beam (Arch.), the main timber in double flooring. -- Binding joist (Arch.), the secondary timber in double-framed flooring.

A number that divides another into two equal parts without a remainder.