Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Wearing or clothed in a base or skirt.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having a base, or having as a base; supported.
  • adjective obsolete Wearing, or protected by, bases.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective founded on; having a basis; often used in combining forms
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of base.
  • verb Being derived from (usually followed by on or upon).
  • verb Having a base
  • verb Having a base of operations.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having a base
  • adjective having a base of operations (often used as a combining form)

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