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Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs. [Archaic] Shak.

See Bass viol.

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 lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye. [Archaic] Bacon. Saying so, he abased his lance. Shelton.

Lowered; humbled.

Abjectly; downcastly.

The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.

He who, or that which, abases.