Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 15
Basan (n.) 書面用的羊皮 Same as Basil, a sheepskin.
Compare: Sheepskin
Sheepskin (n.) （綿）羊皮；帶毛羊革 [U] ；羊皮紙，羊皮革 [U]；羊皮衣（手套等）[C] A sheep's skin with the wool on, especially when made into a garment or rug.
[As modifier] ‘A sheepskin coat.’
Sheepskin (n.) [Mass noun] Leather from a sheep's skin used in bookbinding.
‘Another value added to the cows was the fact that while the rest of Europe used manuscripts made from sheepskin, in Ireland it was calfskin.’
‘Manuscripts on sheepskin or parchment were easier to create and read than chiseled stone tablets, but still could be read only by one person in one place at a time.’
Sheepskin (n.) (In South Africa) A party with country dancing.
Sheepskin (n.) The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it.
Sheepskin (n.) A diploma; -- so called because usually written or printed on parchment prepared from the skin of the sheep. [College Cant].
Sheepskin (n.) Tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing [syn: sheepskin, fleece].
Sheepskin (n.) Skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on [syn: parchment, sheepskin, lambskin].
Sheepskin (n.) A document certifying the successful completion of a course of study [syn: diploma, sheepskin].
Basanite (n.) (Min.) Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal.
Basbleu (n.) A bluestocking; a literary woman. [Somewhat derisive].
Bascinet (n.) A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a visor. [Written also basinet, bassinet, basnet.].
Bascule (n.) In mechanics an apparatus on the principle of the seesaw, in which one end rises as the other falls.
Bascule bridge, A counterpoise or balanced drawbridge, which is opened by sinking the counterpoise and thus lifting the footway into the air.
Bascule (n.) A structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (on the principle of the seesaw).
Base (a.) 基本的，基礎的；用作基地的；卑鄙的，惡劣的； 卑下的，微賤的；拙劣的；沒有價值的 Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs. [Archaic] -- Shak.
Base (a.) Low in place or position. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Base (a.) Of humble birth; or low degree; lowly; mean. [Archaic] "A peasant and base swain." -- Bacon.
Base (a.) Illegitimate by birth; bastard. [Archaic]
Why bastard? wherefore base? -- Shak.
Base (a.) Of little comparative value, as metal inferior to gold and silver, the precious metals.
Base (a.) Alloyed with inferior metal; debased; as, base coin; base bullion.
Base (a.) Morally low. Hence: Low-minded; unworthy; without dignity of sentiment; ignoble; mean; illiberal; menial; as, a base fellow; base motives; base occupations. "A cruel act of a base and a cowardish mind." -- Robynson (More's Utopia).
"Base ingratitude." -- Milton.
Base (a.) Not classical or correct. "Base Latin." -- Fuller.
Base (a.) Deep or grave in sound; as, the base tone of a violin. [In this sense, commonly written bass.]
Base (a.) (Law) Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant.
Base fee, Formerly, an estate held at the will of the lord; now, a qualified fee. See note under Fee, n., 4.
Base metal. See under Metal.
Syn: Dishonorable; worthless; ignoble; low-minded; infamous; sordid; degraded.
Usage: Base, Vile, Mean. These words, as expressing moral qualities, are here arranged in the order of their strength, the strongest being placed first. Base marks a high degree of moral turpitude; vile and mean denote, in different degrees, the lack of what is valuable or worthy of esteem. What is base excites our abhorrence; what is vile provokes our disgust or indignation; what is mean awakens contempt. Base is opposed to high-minded; vile, to noble; mean, to liberal or generous. Ingratitude is base; sycophancy is vile; undue compliances are mean.
Base (n.) [C] 基，底，基部 [the S]；基礎；基料 [S1]；基地，總部 The bottom of anything, considered as its support, or that on which something rests for support; the foundation; as, the base of a statue. "The base of mighty mountains." -- Prescott.
Base (n.) Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the essential principle; a groundwork.
Base (n.) (Arch.) The lower part of a wall, pier, or column, when treated as a separate feature, usually in projection, or especially ornamented.
Base (n.) (Arch.) The lower part of a complete architectural design, as of a monument; also, the lower part of any elaborate piece of furniture or decoration.
Base (n.) (Bot.) That extremity of a leaf, fruit, etc., at which it is attached to its support.
Base (n.) (Chem.) The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; -- applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids.
Base (n.) (Pharmacy) The chief ingredient in a compound.
Base (n.) (Dyeing) A substance used as a mordant. -- Ure.
Base (n.) (Fort.) The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions.
Base (n.) (Geom.) The line or surface constituting that part of a figure on which it is supposed to stand.
Base (n.) (Math.) The number from which a mathematical table is constructed; as, the base of a system of logarithms.
Base (n.) [See Base low.] A low, or deep, sound.
Base (n.) (Mus.) The lowest part; the deepest male voice.
Base (n.) (Mus.) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, base.[Now commonly written bass.]
The trebles squeak for fear, the bases roar. -- Dryden.
Base (n.) (Mil.) A place or tract of country, protected by fortifications, or by natural advantages, from which the operations of an army proceed, forward movements are made, supplies are furnished, etc.
Base (n.) (Mil.) The smallest kind of cannon. [Obs.]
Base (n.) (Zool.) That part of an organ by which it is attached to another more central organ.
Base (n.) (Crystallog.) The basal plane of a crystal.
Base (n.) (Geol.) The ground mass of a rock, especially if not distinctly crystalline.
Base (n.) (Her.) The lower part of the field. See Escutcheon.
Base (n.) The housing of a horse. [Obs.]
Base (n.) (pl.) A kind of skirt ( often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armor) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower. ] [Obs.]
Base (n.) The lower part of a robe or petticoat. [Obs.]
Base (n.) An apron. [Obs.] "Bakers in their linen bases." -- Marston.
Base (n.) The point or line from which a start is made; a starting place or a goal in various games.
To their appointed base they went. -- Dryden.
Base (n.) (Surv.) A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles. -- Lyman.
Base (n.) A rustic play; -- called also prisoner's base, prison base, or bars. "To run the country base." -- Shak.
Base (n.) (Baseball) Any one of the four bounds which mark the circuit of the infield.
Altern base. See under Altern.
Attic base. (Arch.) See under Attic.
Base course. (Arch.) The first or lower course of a foundation wall, made of large stones or a mass of concrete; -- called also foundation course.
Base course. (Arch.) The architectural member forming the transition between the basement and the wall above.
Base hit (Baseball), A hit, by which the batsman, without any error on the part of his opponents, is able to reach the first base without being put out.
Base line (n.) A main line taken as a base, as in surveying or in military operations.
Base line (n.) 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.
Base ring (Ordnance), A projecting band of metal around the breech, connected with the body of the gun by a concave molding. -- H. L. Scott.
Based (imp. & p. p.) of Base.
Basing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Base.
Base (v. t.) 把……放在基座上；把……建立在某種基礎上；以……為基地 To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower. [Obs.]
If any . . . based his pike. -- Sir T. North.
Base (v. t.) To reduce the value of; to debase. [Obs.]
Metals which we can not base. -- Bacon.
Base (v. t.) To put on a base or basis; to lay the foundation of; to found, as an argument or conclusion; -- used with on or upon. -- Bacon.
Bass (n.) A bass, or deep, sound or tone.
Bass (n.) (Mus.) The lowest part in a musical composition.
Bass (n.) (Mus.) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, bass. [Written also {base}.].
{Thorough bass}. See {Thorough bass}.
Base (a.) Serving as or forming a base; "the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats" [syn: {basal}, {base}].
Base (a.) Of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense); "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth" [syn: {base}, {baseborn}, {humble}, {lowly}].
Base (a.) (Used of metals) Consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal; "base coins of aluminum"; "a base metal."
Base (a.) Not adhering to ethical or moral principles; "base and unpatriotic motives"; "a base, degrading way of life"; "cheating is dishonorable"; "they considered colonialism immoral"; "unethical practices in handling public funds" [syn: {base}, {immoral}].
Base (a.) Having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics" [syn: {base}, {mean}, {meanspirited}].
Base (a.) Illegitimate [syn: {base}, {baseborn}].
Base (a.) Debased; not genuine; "an attempt to eliminate the base coinage."
Base (n.) Installation from which a military force initiates operations; "the attack wiped out our forward bases" [syn: {base}, {base of operations}].
Base (n.) Lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower" [syn: {foundation}, {base}, {fundament}, {foot}, {groundwork}, {substructure}, {understructure}].
Base (n.) A place that the runner must touch before scoring; "he scrambled to get back to the bag" [syn: {base}, {bag}].
Base (n.) The bottom or lowest part; "the base of the mountain."
Base (n.) (Anatomy) The part of an organ nearest its point of attachment; "the base of the skull".
Base (n.) A lower limit; "the government established a wage floor" [syn: {floor}, {base}].
Base (n.) The fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained; "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture" [syn: {basis}, {base}, {foundation}, {fundament}, {groundwork}, {cornerstone}].
Base (n.) A support or foundation; "the base of the lamp" [syn: {base}, {pedestal}, {stand}].
Base (n.) A phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) [syn: {nucleotide}, {base}].
Base (n.) Any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water; "bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia" [syn: {base}, {alkali}].
Base (n.) The bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed; "the base of the triangle."
Base (n.) The most important or necessary part of something; "the basis of this drink is orange juice" [syn: {basis}, {base}].
Base (n.) (Numeration system) The positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place; "10 is the radix of the decimal system" [syn: {base}, {radix}].
Base (n.) The place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end [syn: {base}, {home}].
Base (n.) A terrorist network intensely opposed to the United States that dispenses money and logistical support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terrorist groups; has cells in more than 50 countries [syn: {al-Qaeda}, {Qaeda}, {al-Qa'ida}, {al-Qaida}, {Base}].
Base (n.) (Linguistics) The form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" [syn: {root}, {root word}, {base}, {stem}, {theme}, {radical}].
Base (n.) The stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area; "the industrial base of Japan" [syn: {infrastructure}, {base}].
Base (n.) The principal ingredient of a mixture; "glycerinated gelatin is used as a base for many ointments"; "he told the painter that he wanted a yellow base with just a hint of green"; "everything she cooked seemed to have rice as the base."
Base (n.) A flat bottom on which something is intended to sit; "a tub should sit on its own base".
Base (n.) (Electronics) The part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector.
Base (v.) Use as a basis for; found on; "base a claim on some observation" [syn: {establish}, {base}, {ground}, {found}].
Base (v.) Situate as a center of operations; "we will base this project in the new lab."
Base (v.) Use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes [syn: {free-base}, {base}].
Base (a.) Something low; inferior. This word is frequently used in composition; as base court, base estate, base fee, &c.
Baseball (n.) 棒球運動 [U]；棒球 [C] 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.
Baseball (n.) The ball used in this game.
Baseball (n.) A ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" [syn: baseball, baseball game].
Baseball (n.) A ball used in playing baseball.
Baseboard (n.) A board, 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.
Baseborn (a.) Born out of wedlock.
Baseborn (a.) Born of low parentage.
Baseborn (a.) Vile; mean.
Base-burner (n.) 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.
Base-court (n.) The secondary, inferior, or rear courtyard of a large house; the outer court of a castle.
Base-court (n.) An inferior court of law, not of record.
Based (a.) Having a base, or having as a base; supported; as, broad-based.
Based (n.) Wearing, or protected by, bases.
Basedow's disease () A disease characterized by enlargement of the thyroid gland, prominence of the eyeballs, and inordinate action of the heart; -- called also exophthalmic goiter.
Baselard (n.) A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century.
Baseless (a.) Without a base; having no foundation or support.
Basely (adv.) In a base manner; with despicable meanness; dishonorably; shamefully.
Basely (adv.) Illegitimately; in bastardy.
Basement (a.) The outer wall of the ground story 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.
Baseness (n.) The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness.
Basenet (n.) See Bascinet.
Base viol () See Bass viol.
Bash (v. t. & i.) To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.
Bashaw (n.) A Turkish title of honor, now written pasha. See Pasha.
Bashaw (n.) Fig.: A magnate or grandee.
Bashaw (n.) A very large siluroid fish (Leptops olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; -- also called goujon, mud cat, and yellow cat.
Bashful (a.) 害羞的，羞怯的；侷促不安的 Abashed; daunted; dismayed.
Bashful (a.) Very modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression.
Bashful (a.) 害羞的，羞怯的 Often feeling uncomfortable with other people and easily embarrassed.
// She gave a bashful smile as he complimented her on her work.
Syn: Shy
Bashfully (adv.) 羞怯地；侷促不安地 In a bashful manner.
Bashfulness (n.) 害羞，羞怯，靦腆 [U] The quality of being bashful.
Bashi-bazouk (n.) A soldier belonging to the irregular troops of the Turkish army.
Bashless (a.) Shameless; unblushing.
Bashyle (n.) See Basyle.
Basi- () A combining form, especially in anatomical and botanical words, to indicate the base or position at or near a base; forming a base; as, basibranchials, the most ventral of the cartilages or bones of the branchial arches; basicranial, situated at the base of the cranium; basifacial, basitemporal, etc.
Basic (a.) Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.
Basic (a.) Having the base in excess, or the amount of the base atomically greater than that of the acid, or exceeding in proportion that of the related neutral salt.
Basic (a.) Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.
Basic (a.) Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.
Basicerite (n.) The second joint of the antennae of crustaceans.
Basicity (n.) The quality or state of being a base.
Basicity (n.) The power of an acid to unite with one or more atoms or equivalents of a base, as indicated by the number of replaceable hydrogen atoms contained in the acid.
Basidiospore (n.) A spore borne by a basidium.
Basidium (n.) A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example.
Basifier (n.) That which converts into a salifiable base.
Basifugal (n.) Tending or proceeding away from the base; as, a basifugal growth.
Basify (v. t.) To convert into a salifiable base.
Basigynium (n.) The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.
Basihyal (a.) Noting two small bones, forming the body of the inverted hyoid arch.
Basihyoid (n.) The central tongue bone.
Basil (n.) The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground. -- Grier.
Basiled (imp. & p. p.) of Basil.
Basiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Basil.
Basil (v. t.) To grind or form the edge of to an angle. -- Moxon.
Basil (n.) (Bot.)【植】羅勒（香料，藥用的高度香味的植物）；九層塔 The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil ({Ocymum basilicum), and the bush basil, or lesser basil ({O. minimum), the leaves of which are used in cookery. The name is also given to several kinds of mountain mint ({Pycnanthemum).
Basil thyme, A name given to the fragrant herbs Calamintha Acinos and Calamintha Nepeta.
Wild basil, A plant ({Calamintha clinopodium"> Wild basil, A plant ({Calamintha clinopodium) of the Mint family.
Basil (n.) The skin of a sheep tanned with bark.
Basil (n.) Any of several Old World tropical aromatic annual or perennial herbs of the genus Ocimum.
Basil (n.) (Roman Catholic Church) The bishop of Caesarea who defended the Roman Catholic Church against the heresies of the 4th century; a saint and Doctor of the Church (329-379) [syn: Basil, St. Basil, Basil of Caesarea, Basil the Great, St. Basil the Great].
Basil (n.) Leaves of the common basil; used fresh or dried [syn: basil, sweet basil].
Basilar (n.) Alt. of Basilary.
Basilar (a.) 基部的；頭蓋骨底部的 Of, relating to, or located at or near the base, especially the base of the skull.
// The basilar artery.
// The basilar membrane of the cochlea.