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- English Word Bases Definition of Basis
- English Word Bash Definition To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.
- English Word Bashaw Definition A Turkish title of honor, now written pasha. See Pasha.
- English Word Bashaw Definition Fig.: A magnate or grandee.
- English Word Bashaw Definition A very large siluroid fish (Leptops olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; -- also called goujon, mud cat, and yellow cat.
- English Word Bashful Definition Abashed; daunted; dismayed.
- English Word Bashful Definition Very modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression.
- English Word Bashfully Definition In a bashful manner.
- English Word Bashfulness Definition The quality of being bashful.
- English Word Bashi-bazouk Definition A soldier belonging to the irregular troops of the Turkish army.
- English Word Bashless Definition Shameless; unblushing.
- English Word Bashyle Definition See Basyle.
- English Word Basi- Definition 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.
- English Word Basic Definition Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.
- English Word Basic Definition 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.
- English Word Basic Definition Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.
- English Word Basic Definition Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.
- English Word Basicerite Definition The second joint of the antennae of crustaceans.
- English Word Basicity Definition The quality or state of being a base.
- English Word Basicity Definition 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.