(archaic) Of low social standing or rank; vulgar, common.
(law) Not held by honourable service.
(now rare) Inferior; unworthy, of poor quality.
(obsolete) Low in height; short.
(obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard.
(obsolete) Of low value or degree.
(of a metal) Not considered precious or noble.
Alloyed with inferior metal; debased.
Low in place or position.
Morally reprehensible, immoral; cowardly.
Not classical or correct.
Obsolete form of bass.
noun
(Marxism) The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.
(acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
(archaic) The housing of a horse.
(architecture) The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
(aviation) Short for base leg.
(baseball) One of the four places that a runner can stand without being subject to being tagged out when the ball is in play.
(biology, biochemistry) A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
(botany) The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
(chemistry) Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts.
(cooking, painting, pharmacy) A basic but essential component or ingredient.
(cosmetics) Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
(electronics) The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
(geometry) The lowest side of a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
(group theory) A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
(heraldry) The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.
(heraldry) The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.
(historical, sometimes in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mail or other armour) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
(linguistics) A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
(mathematics) A number raised to the power of an exponent.
(mathematics) Synonym of radix.
(military, historical) The smallest kind of cannon.
(music) Dated form of bass.
(now chiefly US, historical) The game of prisoners' bars.
(obsolete) An apron.
(obsolete) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
(politics) A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.
(slang) freebase cocaine
(topology) A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
(topology) The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
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.
A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.
A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
A safe zone in the children's games of tag and hide-and-go-seek.
A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
A supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object.
Alternative form of BASE
Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
verb
(acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
(slang) To freebase.
(transitive) To be located (at a particular place).
(transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
