base

A stream of water, pure as crystal, flowed along the path, from the summit to the base.

It comes out of a subconsciousness in which death and not life is the base.

Manifestly, Shakespeare is thinking of Herbert and his base betrayal.

The man was placed horizontally on a base board beneath the spar.

The bearers of this base proposal were admitted to the palace.

Well, that I could have pardoned, if she had not been so base as to go over to Mrs. Luttridge.

Edison was acquainted with two experimental facts on which to base the invention.

I remembered no more, till I found myself in the base hospital.

We may know that it's a base pretension by its having that effect.

He knew that Hamish had not erred from any base self-gratification, but from love.