Bas-relief: Definition and part of speech

Bas-relief

n. Low relief; sculpture, the figures of which project less than half of their true proportions; — called also bassrelief and basso-rilievo. See Alto-rilievo.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

pl. of Bass
n. An edible, spiny-finned fish, esp. of the genera Roccus, Labrax, and related genera. There are many species.
n. The two American fresh-water species of black bass (genus Micropterus). See Black bass.
n. Species of Serranus, the sea bass and rock bass. See Sea bass.
n. The southern, red, or channel bass (Sciaena ocellata). See Redfish.
n. The linden or lime tree, sometimes wrongly called whitewood; also, its bark, which is used for making mats. See Bast.
n. A hassock or thick mat.
a. A bass, or deep, sound or tone.
a. The lowest part in a musical composition.
a. One who sings, or the instrument which plays, bass.
1pl. 1 of Bass

a. Pertaining to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle vein of the right arm.
a. Royal; kingly; also, basilican.

n. A digest of the laws of Justinian, translated from the original Latin into Greek, by order of Basil I., in the ninth century.
n. Originally, the place of a king; but afterward, an apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; and hence, any large hall used for this purpose.
n. A building used by the Romans as a place of public meeting, with court rooms, etc., attached.
n. A church building of the earlier centuries of Christianity, the plan of which was taken from the basilica of the Romans. The name is still applied to some churches by way of honorary distinction.