A mixture of carbonate of lime with sulphate of baryte, of a dark or light gray color, of various forms. NWAD BARYTO-CALCITE.2
2. In Greek Grammar, a verb which has no accent marked on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood. NWAD BARYTONE.3
A dark, grayish black mineral or stone, sometimes bluish or brownish black, and when withered, the surface is grayish or reddish brown. It is amorphous, columnar, tabular or globular. The columnar form is straight or curved, perpendicular or inclined, sometimes nearly horizontal; the diameter of the columns from three inches to three feet, sometimes with transverse semi-spherical joints, in which the convex part of one is inserted in the concavity of another. The forms of the columns generally are pentagonal, hexagonal, or octagonal. It is sometimes found also in rounded masses, either spherical, or compressed and lenticular. These rounded masses are sometimes composed of concentric layers, with a nucleus, and sometimes of prisms radiating from a center. It is heavy and hard. The pillars of the Giant’s causey in Ireland, composed of this stone and exposed to the roughest sea for ages, have their angles as perfect as those at a distance from the waves. The English miners call it cockle; the German, shorl, or shoerl. It is called by Kirwan, Figurate Trap, from its prismatic forms. NWAD BASALT.2
2. A column of basalt. NWAD BASALTINE.2
Lydian stone, or black jasper; a variety of siliceous or flinty slate. Its color is a grayish or bluish black, interspersed with veins of quartz. It is employed to test the purity of gold. NWAD BASANITE.2
1. Low in place. Obs. NWAD BASE.2
2. Mean; vile; worthless; that is, low in value or estimation; used of things. NWAD BASE.3
3. Of low station; of mean account; without rank, dignity or estimation among men; used of persons. NWAD BASE.4
The base shall behave proudly against the honorable. Isaiah 3:5. NWAD BASE.5
4. Of mean spirit; disingenuous; illiberal; low; without dignity of sentiment; as a base and abject multitude. NWAD BASE.6
5. Of little comparative value; applied to metals, and perhaps to all metals, except gold and silver. NWAD BASE.7
6. Deep; grave; applied to sounds; as the base sounds of a viol. NWAD BASE.8
7. Of illegitimate birth; born out of wedlock. NWAD BASE.9
8. Not held by honorable tenure. A base estate is an estate held by services not honorable, not in capite, or by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant. So writers on the laws of England use the terms, a base fee, a base court. NWAD BASE.10
1. The bottom of any thing, considered as its support or the part of a thing on which it stands or rests; as the base of a column, the pedestal of a statue, the foundation of a house, etc. NWAD BASE.12
In architecture, the base of a pillar properly is that part which is between the top of a pedestal and the bottom of the shaft; but when there is no pedestal, it is the part between the bottom of the column and the plinth. Usually it consists of certain spires or circles. The pedestal also has its base. NWAD BASE.13
2. In fortification, the exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which is drawn from the flanked angle of a bastion to the angle opposite to it. NWAD BASE.14
3. In gunnery, the least sort of ordnance, the diameter of whose bore is 1 1/4 inch. NWAD BASE.15
4. The part of any ornament which hangs down, as housings. NWAD BASE.16
5. The broad part of any thing, as the bottom of a cone. NWAD BASE.17
6. In old authors, stockings; armor for the legs. NWAD BASE.18
7. The place from which racers or tilters start; the bottom of the field; the carcer or starting post. NWAD BASE.19
8. The lowest or gravest part in music; improperly written bass. NWAD BASE.20
9. A rustic play, called also bays, or prison bars. NWAD BASE.21
10. In geometry, the lowest side of the perimeter of a figure. Any side of a triangle may be called its base, but this term most properly belongs to the side which is parallel to the horizon. In rectangled triangles, the base, properly, is the side opposite to the right angle. The base of a solid figure is that on which it stands. The base of a conic section is a right line in the hyperbola and parabola, arising from the common intersection of the secant plane and the base of the cone. NWAD BASE.22
11. In chimistry, any body which is dissolved by another body, which it receives and fixes. Thus any alkaline, earthy or metallic substance, combining with an acid, forms a compound or neutral salt, of which it is the base. Such salts are called salts with alkaline, earthy or metallic bases. NWAD BASE.23
12. Thorough base, in music, is the part performed with base viols or theorbos, while the voices sing and other instruments perform their parts, or during the intervals when the other parts stop. It is distinguished by figures over the notes. NWAD BASE.24
Counter base is a second or double base, when there are several in the same concert. NWAD BASE.25
1. To embase; to reduce the value by the admixture of meaner metals. [Little used.] NWAD BASE.27
2. To found; to lay the base or foundation. NWAD BASE.28
To base and build the commonwealth of man. NWAD BASE.29
2. Born of low parentage. NWAD BASE-BORN.2
3. Vile; mean. NWAD BASE-BORN.3
The back yard, opposed to the chief court in front of a house; the farm yard. NWAD BASE-COURT.2
The baseless fabric of a vision. NWAD BASELESS.2
The fame how poor that swells our baseless pride. NWAD BASELESS.3
2. Illegitimately; in bastardy. NWAD BASELY.2
2. Vileness of metal; the quality of being of little comparative value. NWAD BASENESS.2
3. Bastardy; illegitimacy of birth. NWAD BASENESS.3
4. Deepness of sound. NWAD BASENESS.4
To be ashamed; to be confounded with shame. NWAD BASH.2
1. A title of honor in the Turkish dominions; appropriately, the title of the prime vizer, but given to viceroys or governors of provinces, and to generals and other men of distinction. The Turkish bashaws exercise an oppressive authority in their provinces. Hence, NWAD BASHAW.2
2. A proud, tyrannical, overbearing man. NWAD BASHAW.3
1. Properly, having a downcast look; hence very modest. NWAD BASHFUL.2
2. Modest to excess; sheepish. NWAD BASHFUL.3
3. Exciting shame. NWAD BASHFUL.4
2. Vicious or rustic shame. NWAD BASHFULNESS.2
1. A plant of the genus Ocymum, of which there are many species, all natives of warm climates. They are fragrant aromatic plants, and one species, the sweet basil, is much used in cookery, especially in France. NWAD BASIL.4
Chief; an anatomical term applied to several bones, and to an artery of the brain. NWAD BASILAR.2
Basilian monks, monks of the order of St. Basil, who founded the order in Pontus. The order still exists, but has less power and celebrity than formerly. NWAD BASILAR.3
Anciently, a public hall or court of judicature, where princes and magistrates sat to administer justice. It was a large hall, with aisles, porticoes, tribunes, and tribunals. The bankers also had a part allotted for their residence. These edifices, at first, were the palaces of princes, afterwards courts of justice, and finally converted into churches. Hence basilic now signifies a church, chapel, cathedral, or royal palace. NWAD BASILIC.2
2. Noting a particular nut, the walnut, basilica nux. NWAD BASILIC.5
An ointment. This name is given to several compositions in ancient medical writers. At present it is confined to three officinal ointments, distinguished into black, yellow and green basilicon. NWAD BASILICON.2
1. A fabulous serpent, called a cockatrice, and said to be produced from a cock’s egg brooded by a serpent. The ancients alledged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath and even its look was fatal. Some writers suppose that a real serpent exists under this name. NWAD BASILISK.2
2. In military affairs, a large piece of ordnance, so called from its supposed resemblance to the serpent of that name, or from its size. This cannon carried a ball of 200 pounds weight, but is not now used. Modern writers give this name to cannon of a smaller size, which the Dutch make 15 feet long, and the French 10, carrying a 48 pound ball. NWAD BASILISK.3
1. A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses. NWAD BASIN.2
2. In hydraulics, any reservoir of water. NWAD BASIN.3
3. That which resembles a basin in containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a hollow place for liquids, or an inclosed part of water, forming a broad space within a strait or narrow entrance; a little bay. NWAD BASIN.4
4. Among glass grinders, a concave piece of metal by which convex glasses are formed. NWAD BASIN.5
5. Among hatters, a large shell or case, usually of iron, placed over a furnace, in which the hat is molded into due shape. NWAD BASIN.6
6. In anatomy, a round cavity between the anterior ventricles of the brain. NWAD BASIN.7
7. The scale of a balance, when hollow and round. NWAD BASIN.8
8. In Jewish antiquities, the laver of the tabernacle. NWAD BASIN.9
1. The foundation of any thing; that on which a thing stands or lies; the bottom or foot of the thing itself, or that on which it rests. See a full explanation under Base. NWAD BASIS.2
2. The ground work or first principle; that which supports. NWAD BASIS.3
3. Foundation; support. NWAD BASIS.4
The basis of public credit is good faith. NWAD BASIS.5
The basis of all excellence is truth. NWAD BASIS.6
4. Basis, in chimistry. See Base. No. 12. NWAD BASIS.7
To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat; to be at ease and thriving under benign influences; as, to bask in the blaze of day; to bask in the sunshine of royal favor. The word includes the idea of some continuance of exposure. NWAD BASK.2
1. A domestic vessel made of twigs, rushes, splinters or other flexible things interwoven. The forms and sizes of baskets are very various, as well as the uses to which they are applied; as corn-baskets, clothes-baskets, fruit-baskets, and work-baskets. NWAD BASKET.2
2. The contents of a basket; as much as a basket will contain; as, a basket of medlars is two bushels. But in general, this quantity is indefinite. NWAD BASKET.3
In military affairs, baskets of earth sometimes are used on the parapet of a trench, between which the soldiers fire. They serve for defense against small shot. NWAD BASKET.4
2. [pron. bas.] A mat to kneel on in churches. NWAD BASS.3
Sculpture, whose figures do not stand out far from the ground or plane on which they are formed. When figures do not protuberate so as to exhibit the entire body, they are said to be done in relief; and when they are low, flat or little raised from the plane, the work is said to be in low relief. When the figures are so raised as to be well distinguished, they are said to be bold, strong, or high, alto relievo. [See Relief.] NWAD BASS-RELIEF.2
Bastard eigne’, or bastard elder, in law, is when a man has a bastard son, and afterward marries the mother, and has a legitimate son, called mulier puisne, or younger. NWAD BASTARD.2
2. Spurious;; not genuine; false; supposititious; adulterate. In this sense, it is applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not genuine; as a bastard hope, bastard honors. NWAD BASTARD.5
In military affairs, bastard is applied to pieces of artillery which are of an unusual make or proportion, whether longer or shorter, as the double culverin extraordinary, half or quarter culverin extraordinary. NWAD BASTARD.6
Bastard-Flower-fence, a plant, a species of Adenanthera. NWAD BASTARD.7
Bastard-hemp, a plant, a species of Datisca, false hemp. NWAD BASTARD.8
Bastard-Rocket, dyers-weed, or wild woad, a species of Reseda. NWAD BASTARD.9
Bastard-Star of Bethlehem, a plant, a species of Albuca. NWAD BASTARD.10
Bastard-Scarlet, a red color dyed with balemadder. NWAD BASTARD.11
1. To make or prove to be a bastard; to convict of being a bastard; to declare legally, or decide a person to be illegitimate. NWAD BASTARDIZE.2
The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful wedlock. NWAD BASTARDIZE.3
2. To beget a bastard. NWAD BASTARDIZE.4
Bastarnic Alps, the Carpathian mountains, between Poland, Hungary and Transvlvania; so called from the ancient inhabitants, the Bastarnoe. NWAD BASTARNIC.2
1. To beat with a stick. NWAD BASTE.2
2. To drip butter or fat upon meat, as it turns upon the spit, in roasting; to moisten with fat or other liquid. NWAD BASTE.3
1. A heavy stick or club; a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other. NWAD BAT.2
2. Bat or bate, a small copper coin of Germany, with a small mixture of silver, worth four crutzers. Also a coin of Switzerland, worth five livres. NWAD BAT.3
3. A term given by miners to shale or bituminous shale. NWAD BAT.4
A race of quadrupeds, technically called Vespertilio, of the order primates, in Linne’s system. The fore feet have the toes connected by a membrane, expanded into a kind of wings, by means of which the animals fly. The species are numerous. Of these, the vampire or Ternate bat inhabits Africa and the Oriental Isles. These animals fly in flocks from isle to isle, obscuring the sun by their numbers. Their wings when extended measure five or six feet. They live on fruits; but are said sometimes to draw blood from persons when asleep. The bats of the northern latitudes are small; they are viviparous and suckle their young. Their skin resembles that of a mouse. They enter houses in pleasant summer evenings, feed upon moths, flies, flesh, and oily substances, and are torpid during the winter. NWAD BAT.7
Pertaining to the isle of Betaw in Holland, between the Rhine and the Waal. But more generally, the word denotes what appertains to Holland in general. NWAD BATAVIAN.2
1. The quantity of bread baked at one time; a baking of bread. NWAD BATCH.2
2. Any quantity of a thing made at once, or so united as to have like qualities. NWAD BATCH.3
Strife; contention; retained in make-bate. NWAD BATE.2
To lessen by retrenching, deducting or reducing; as, to bate the wages of the laborer; to bate good cheer. [We now use abate.] NWAD BATE.4
Abate thy speed and I will bate of mine. NWAD BATE.6
Spenser uses bate in the sense of sinking, driving in, penetrating; a sense regularly deducible from that of beat, to thrust. NWAD BATE.7
Yet there the steel staid not, but inly bate. NWAD BATE.8
Deep in the flesh, and open’d wide a red flood gate. NWAD BATE.9
1. A place for bathing; a convenient vat or receptacle of water for persons to plunge or wash their bodies in. Baths are warm or tepid, hot or cold, more generally called warm and cold. They are also natural or artificial. Natural baths are those which consist of spring water, either hot or cold, which is often impregnated with iron, and called chalybeate, or with sulphur, carbonic acid, and other mineral qualities. These waters are often very efficacious in scorbutic, bilious, dyspeptic and other complaints. NWAD BATH.2
2. A place in which heat is applied to a body immersed in some substance. Thus, NWAD BATH.3
A dry bath is made of hot sand, ashes, salt, or other matter, for the purpose of applying heat to a body immersed in them. NWAD BATH.4
A vapor bath is formed by filling an apartment with hot steam or vapor, in which the body sweats copiously, as in Russia; or the term is used for the application of hot steam to a diseased part of the body. NWAD BATH.5
A metalline bath is water impregnated with iron or other metallic substance, and applied to a diseased part. NWAD BATH.6
In chimistry, a wet bath is formed by hot water in which is placed a vessel containing the matter which requires a softer heat than the naked fire. NWAD BATH.7
In medicine, the animal bath is made by wrapping the part affected in a warm skin just taken from an animal. NWAD BATH.8
3. A house for bathing. In some eastern countries, baths are very magnificent edifices. NWAD BATH.9
4. A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or seven gallons and four pints, as a measure for liquids; and three pecks and three pints, as a dry measure. NWAD BATH.10