Vocabulary : Bashfulness to Basic steel

Bashfulness : The quality of being bashful.
Bashi-bazouk : A soldier belonging to the irregular troops of the Turkish army.
Bashing : of Bash
Bashless : Shameless; unblushing.
Bashyle : See Basyle.

Basi- : A combining form, especially in anatomical and botanical words, to indicate the base or position at or near a base; forming a base; as, basibranchials, the most ventral of the cartilages or bones of the branchial arches; basicranial, situated at the base of the cranium; basifacial, basitemporal, etc.
Basic : Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt. ;; Having the base in excess, or the amount of the base atomically greater than that of the acid, or exceeding in proportion that of the related neutral salt. ;; Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper. ;; Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.
Basic process : A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.
Basic slag : A by-product from the manufacture of steel by the basic process, used as a fertilizer. It is rich in lime and contains 14 to 20 per cent of phosphoric acid. Called also Thomas slag, phosphatic slag, and odorless phosphate.
Basic steel : Steel produced by the basic process.

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