Chapter Bandage to Battle of B by Soule's Synonymes

4. Mean, despicable, contemptible, beggarly, sordid, servile, slavish, menial, sorry, worthless, pitiful, low- minded, rascally, abject, grovelling, low, venal.

5. Shameful, disreputable, disgraceful, discreditable, dishonorable, scandalous, infamous, vile, villanous.

Base, n.

1. Basis, foundation, ground, groundwork, lowest part, bottom, foot.

2. (Surveying.) Base-line.

3. (Chem.) Principal element (of a compound).

Base, v. a. Found, rest, establish. [Followed by on or upon.]

Base-born, a. See base, a., 3.

Base-line, n. (Surveying.) Base.

Basement, n. Ground-floor, lowest story, basement story.

Base-minded, a. Mean, low, vile, grovelling, beggarly, pitiful, despicable, abject, low-minded, mean- spirited.

Baseness, n.

1. Meanness, despicableness, contemptibleness, abasement, worthlessness, abjectness.

2. Disgrace, ignominy, infamy, shame, dishonor, turpitude, villany, perfidy.

Bashful, a. Shy, timid, timorous, coy, diffident, sheepish, shamefaced, over-modest, not self-possessed.

Bashfulness, n. Shyness, timidity, coyness, diffidence, self-distrust, excessive modesty.

Basilisk, n. Cockatrice.

Basis, n. Base, foundation, ground, groundwork, lowest part.

Bask, v. n.

1. Lie warming, warm one’s self joyously, luxuriate.

2. Rejoice, be shone upon, be bathed, revel, prosper.

Bask, v. a. Bathe, warm, expose.

Bass, a. (Mus.) Low, deep, grave.

Basset, v. n. (Geol.) Crop out.