noun. 
                    Same as basipodite.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    The foundation of anything; that on which a thing stands or on which anything is reared; a foundation, groundwork, or supporting principle: now most commonly used of immaterial things.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    In architecture, same as base, 3.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    A pedestal.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    The principal constituent of a compound; a fundamental ingredient.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    Milit., same as base, 15
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    . In crystallography and petrography, same as basal plane (which see, under basal).
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    In botany and conchology, same as base, 4.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    [NL.] In anatomy, the base; the fundamental or basilar part of anything: as, basis cranii, the base of the skull.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    In prosody, a trochee or its substitute preceding the dactyls of a logaœdic series.