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A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.

An expectation based on cirumstances. The lazy gossips of the port, Abborrent of a calculation crost, Began to chafe as at a personal wrong. Tennyson.

A row of small bracts, at the base of the calyx, on the outside.

gun projectile to lessen the resistance offered to the rifling. Also, a groove around the base of a cartridge, where the extractor takes hold. --Can"ne*lured (#), a.

The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.

in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. it is combustible, and forms the base of lampblack and charcoal, and enters largely into mineral coals. In its pure crystallized state it constitutes the diamond, the hardest of known substances, occuring in monometric crystals like the octahedron, etc. Another m…

To make carnal; to debase to carnality. A sensual and carnalized spirit. John Scott.

cartridge in which the fulminate occupies an axial position usually in the center of the base of the capsule, instead of being contained in its rim. In the Prussian needle gun the fulminate is applied to the middle of the base of the bullet. Rim-fire cartridge, a cartridge in which the fulminate is contained in a rim…

hing loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it included all in rear of the base ring.

nt a castle, used in the game of chess; a rook. Castle in the air, a visionary project; a baseless scheme; an air castle; -- sometimes called a castle in Spain (F. Château en Espagne).

Having the petals held together by stamens, which grow to their bases, as in the mallow.

A base fellow; a rogue; a cheat. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.

The anterior end of the notochord and its bony sheath in the base of cartilaginous crania.

The soft naked sheath at the base of the beak of birds of prey, parrots, and some other birds. See Beak.

timeter, Gram, Second. -- applied to a system of units much empoyed in physical science, based upon the centimeter as the unit of length, the gram as the unit of weight or mass, and the second as the unit of time.

A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations.

A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gum moves backward and forward. [See Gun carriage.]

o broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center.

ed with an ornamental figure of a zigzag from. [A garment] whose nether parts, with their bases, were of watchet cloth of silver, chevroned all over with lace. B. Jonson.