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 BAS (5: 6 ) BAS BASE, in geometry, the lowed fide of the perimeter of ufually make the bafil 12 degrees, and for hard wood a figure : Thus, the bafe of a triangle may be faid of 18 ; it being remarked-, that the more acute the bafil any of its fides, but more properly of the lowed, or is, the better the inftrument cuts ; and the more obthat which is parallel to the horizon. In redangled tufe, the ftronger and fitter it is for fervice. triangles, the b.afe is properly that fide oppofite to the Order of St Basil, the mod ancient of all the religious orders, was very famous in the eaft. It paffed into the right angle. Base ofa /olid figure, the lowed fide, or that on which weft about the year 1057, and was held in great efteem, efpecially in Italy. As to their rules, the Itait dands. Base of a conic fettion, a right line in the hyperbola lian monks of that order faft every Friday in the year t and parabola, arifing from the common interfedion of They eat meat but three times a week, and then but once a-day : They work all together at certain hours the fecant plane, and the bafe of the cone. of the day: Their habit is nearly like that of the BeJltern Base. See Altern. Base, in architedure, isufed for any body which bears nedidines, and they wear a fmall beard like the faanother, but particularly for the lower part of a co- thers of the miflion. BASILARE of, in anatomy, the fame with osffhenoides. lumn and pededal. See Architecture. Base, in fortification, the exterior fide of the polygon, See Sphenoides. or that imaginary line which is drawn from the flanked BASILIC, in ancient architedure, a term ufed for a large hall, or public place, with ifles, porticos, galangle of a badion, to the angle oppofite to it. Base, in gunnery, the leal! fort of ordnance, the dia- leries, tribunals, be. where princes fat and admi■ meter of whofe bore is i| inch, weight 200 pound, niftered juftice in perfon. length 4 feet, load 5 pound, (hot i f pound wt. and BASILICA, in anatomy, the interior branch of the axillary vein, running the whole length of the arm. diameter i-|. inch. a province of the kingdom of Naples, Base line, in perfpedive, the common fedion of a pic- BASILICATE, having the Terra di Barri on the north,, and the proture, and the geometrical plane. vince of Calabria on the fouth. Diftintt Base, in optics. See Focus. a denomination given in the Greek empire Base of the heart, in anatomy, denotes its upper part. BASILICI, to thofe who carried the emperor’s orders and comBase, or Bass, in mufic. See Bass. mands. Basein heraldry. See Point. in pharmacy, an epithet for a great maBASELLA, in botany, a genus of the pentandria tri- BASILICON, cegynia clafs.. It has no calix ; the corolla has 6 di- ny compofitions to be found in the ancient medicinal
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vifions ; and there is but one feed in the caplule. The writers fpeciss are 3, viz., the rubra, alba, and lucida, all ointment, compofed of wax, refin, pitch, and oil of olives, from thence called tetrapharmacum. It is natives of India. BASEMENT, in architedure, a bafe continued a con- much ufed in wounds. liderable length, as round a houfe, room, •be. See BASILICS, a body of the Roman laws, tranllated into Greek. The bafilics comprehend the inftiArchitecture. digefts, code, novels, and fome edids of JuftiBASHAW, a Turkifh governor of a province, city, or tutes, nian and other emperors. other diflrid. Bafliaws include beglerbegs, and fometimes fangiac- BASILICUS, in aftronomy, cor leonis, a fixed ftar of firlt magnitude in the conftellation Leo. See begs, though a diflindion is fometimes made, and the the Leo. name bajha’w is appropriated to the middle fort, or BASILIDIANS, in church-hiftory, a. branch of gnofuch as have two enligns or horfe-tails carried before them. Thofe who have the honour of three tails, are ftics, who maintained that Chrift’s body was only a called beglerbegs; and thofe who have only one, fan- phantom, and that Simon the Cyrenean fuffered in his ftead. giacbegs. The appellation bajhaiu is given by way of cour- BASILIGOROD, a city of the Ruffian empire, in Mufcovitiih Tartary, fituated upon the banks of the tefy to almoft every perfon of any figure at the grand Wolga. fignior’s court. BASIENTO, a river of the kingdom of Naples, which BASILISCUS, in zoology, the trivial name of a fpecies of lacerta. SeeLACERTA. rifes near Potenza in the Bafilicate, waters that pro- BASILISK, in military affairs, a large piece of ordvince, and runs into the gulf of Tarento„ being a 48-pounder, and weighing about 7200 BASIGLOSSUS, or Basioglossus. See Basio- nance, pounds. Thofe of the French were 10 feet long, and GLOSSUM, of the Latch i-j. The French do not call any B ASIE, in geography, a city and canton of Switzer- thofe more of that calibre.land, near the confines of Alface, fituated-on both fides BASINGSTOKE, a market-town of Hampfliire, abost the river Rhine, 16 miles north-eaft of Winehefter, in i° 15' W. Ion. The city is large, populous, and fortified ; being and yi° 20/ N. lat. fituated in 70 4c/ E. long, and 47° 4c/ N. lat. BASIOGLOSSUS, in anatomy, a mufcle arifing from, Basil, imbotany. See Ocymum. the bafe of the os hyoides. Basil, among joiners, the doping edge of a duffel, or BASIS, fo/e, in geometry. See Base. of the iron, of a plane, to work, on foft wood : They Basis,