Defn: A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century.
[Written also baslard.] Fairholt.
BASELESS
Base"less, a.
Defn: Without a base; having no foundation or support. "The baseless fabric of this vision." Shak.
BASELY
Base"ly, adv.
1. In a base manner; with despicable meanness; dishonorably; shamefully.
2. Illegitimately; in bastardy. [Archaic] Knolles.
BASEMENT Base"ment, n. Etym: [F. soubassement. Of uncertain origin. Cf. Base, a., Bastion.] (Arch.)
Defn: The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively. Basement membrane (Anat.), a delicate membrane composed of a single layer of flat cells, forming the substratum upon which, in many organs, the epithelioid cells are disposed.
BASENESS
Base"ness, n.
Defn: The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness.
I once did hold it a baseness to write fair. Shak.