Basilican: Definition and part of speech

Basilican

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.

n. An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance.

n. A large piece of ordnance, so called from its supposed resemblance to the serpent of that name, or from its size.
n. A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice.
n. A lizard of the genus Basiliscus, belonging to the family Iguanidae.

n. An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; — especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.
n. A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.
n. The quantity contained in a basin.
n. A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc.
n. A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay.
n. A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river.
n. The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake.

n. The basioccipital bone.
a. Of or pertaining to the bone in the base of the cranium, frequently forming a part of the occipital in the adult, but usually distinct in the young.