These are the meanings of the letters ABIES when you unscramble them.
- Base (a.)
Alloyed with inferior metal; debased; as, base coin; base bullion.
- Base (a.)
Deep or grave in sound; as, the base tone of a violin.
- Base (a.)
Illegitimate by birth; bastard.
- Base (a.)
Low in place or position.
- Base (a.)
Morally low. Hence: Low-minded; unworthy; without dignity of sentiment; ignoble; mean; illiberal; menial; as, a base fellow; base motives; base occupations.
- Base (a.)
Not classical or correct.
- Base (a.)
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 (a.)
Of humble birth; or low degree; lowly; mean.
- Base (a.)
Of little comparative value, as metal inferior to gold and silver, the precious metals.
- Base (a.)
Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.
- Base (a.)
To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower.
- Base (a.)
To reduce the value of; to debase.
- Base (n.)
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.
- Base (n.)
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.
- Base (n.)
A low, or deep, sound. (Mus.) (a) The lowest part; the deepest male voice. (b) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, base.
- Base (n.)
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.)
A rustic play; -- called also prisoner's base, prison base, or bars.
- Base (n.)
A substance used as a mordant.
- Base (n.)
An apron.
- Base (n.)
Any one of the four bounds which mark the circuit of the infield.
- Base (n.)
Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the essential principle; a groundwork.
- Base (n.)
That extremity of a leaf, fruit, etc., at which it is attached to its support.
- Base (n.)
That part of an organ by which it is attached to another more central organ.
- Base (n.)
The basal plane of a crystal.
- Base (n.)
The bottom of anything, considered as its support, or that on which something rests for support; the foundation; as, the base of a statue.
- Base (n.)
The chief ingredient in a compound.
- Base (n.)
The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions.
- Base (n.)
The ground mass of a rock, especially if not distinctly crystalline.
- Base (n.)
The housing of a horse.
- Base (n.)
The line or surface constituting that part of a figure on which it is supposed to stand.
- Base (n.)
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.)
The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
- Base (n.)
The lower part of a wall, pier, or column, when treated as a separate feature, usually in projection, or especially ornamented.
- Base (n.)
The lower part of the field. See Escutcheon.
- Base (n.)
The number from which a mathematical table is constructed; as, the base of a system of logarithms.
- Base (n.)
The point or line from which a start is made; a starting place or a goal in various games.
- Base (n.)
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.)
The smallest kind of cannon.
- Base (n.)
To put on a base or basis; to lay the foundation of; to found, as an argument or conclusion; -- used with on or upon.
- Bias (a.)
Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
- Bias (a.)
Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
- Bias (adv.)
In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias.
- Bias (n.)
A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent; inclination.
- Bias (n.)
A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.
- Bias (n.)
A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
- Bias (n.)
A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line.
- Bias (v. t.)
To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.
- Bise (n.)
A cold north wind which prevails on the northern coasts of the Mediterranean and in Switzerland, etc.; -- nearly the same as the mistral.
- Bise (n.)
A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; -- called also blue bice.
- Bise (n.)
See Bice.
- isba (unknown)
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- sabe (unknown)
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