Base

Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.

The shield was silver, charged with a red cross voided (that is, with the centre cut out and only the edges left), between in chief (that is, above the horizontal limb of the cross) two black dragon's wings, and in base two red daggers, and in the centre of the cross a black winged helmet; on a red chief (a broad band across the top of the shield), a silver pale (a broad vertical band), and thereon eight black arrows crossed X-wise, four and four, and encircled with a black band, between on the dexter three bendlets (narrow bands slanting from dexter chief to sinister base) enhanced (that is, raised above the centre), and on the sinister a fleur-de-lis, all of gold.

The logarithm to base 2 of 8 is 3.

The trebles squeak for fear, the bases roar.

[…] with flowers of gold, the body lined with velvet, and the bases, or skirts, with satin; also a frock of black satin, lined with sarcenet, having three welts of the same.

The base (skirt), as opposed to the practical skirt of the tonlet armour, is an affectation in imitation of the civilian fabric garment of the period and may well have been inspired by a similar feature on Maximilian's gift armour.

Both knee-length bases are made from black velvet [...] There was a second type of metal skirt that could be worn with armour: the tonlet. [...] Unlike the base, however, the tonlet did not have a textile counterpart. [...]

bakers in their linen bases

Use the globe he inhabits as a base wherewith to measure the magnitude and distance of the sun and planets.

TYLER LENNON (played by Louis Healy): Ten grand a week we were clearing: base, white, meth, weed, anything. I can get you anything to get you high.

Shared you with my friends, the Pops they never had / You lived for our fishing trips, damn I had a dad / [...] / See, mine made sure he had every base covered / So imagine his pain finding base in the cupboard

Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.

Take a look at that. This is where we are going to be basing this season.

Apart from time taken out during radio- and chemotherapy, Maurs continued to participate in POW. She would base a flyer in a double balance and make the audience laugh with her clowning antics for two more shows.

You know he started to base at a hell of a pace / And now it's a disgrace, he's got the pipe in his face

The cedar stoops not to the base shrub's foot.

I see thy glory like a shooting star / Fall to the base earth from the firmament.

If thou livest in paine and sorrow, thy base courage is the cause of it, To die there wanteth but will.

UUhat meanes the mightie Turkiſh Emperor To talke with one ſo baſe as Tamburlaine?

Wherefore should I / Stand in the plague of custome, and permit / The curiosity of Nations, to deprive me? For that I am some twelve, or fourteen Moonshines / Lag of a Brother? Why Bastard? Wherefore base? / When my Dimensions are as well compact, My minde as generous, and my shape as true / As honest madams issue? Why brand they us / With Base? With basenes Bastardie? Base, Base?

a peasant and base swain

a cruel act of a base and a cowardish mind

base ingratitude

“Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it.[…]”

We never, ever change / We make, the same mistakes / If you're gonna have roads / You're gonna have roadkill / That's the risk that it takes / Stone guns / Primitive tanks / Base emotions drive the horde / The diplomat takes, the rook from the board / I want to know what was, in the briefcase / Colder than cold war / Enemies without uniforms

'Like this horrible film.' 'Horrible?' Lenina was genuinely astonished. 'But I thought it was lovely.' 'It was base,' he said indignantly, 'it was ignoble.'

base bullion

Why bastard? Wherefore base?

the base tone of a violin

A base estate is one held by services not honourable, or held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant is a base tenant.

to run the country base

So ran they all, as they had bene at bace, / They being chased that did others chase.