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Bass   /bæs/  /beɪs/   Listen
noun
Bass  n.  (pl. bass, and sometimes basses)  (Zool.)
1.
An edible, spiny-finned fish, esp. of the genera Roccus, Labrax, and related genera. There are many species. Note: The common European bass is Labrax lupus. American species are: the striped bass (Roccus lineatus); white or silver bass of the lakes (Roccus chrysops); brass or yellow bass (Roccus interruptus).
2.
The two American fresh-water species of black bass (genus Micropterus). See Black bass.
3.
Species of Serranus, the sea bass and rock bass. See Sea bass.
4.
The southern, red, or channel bass (Sciaena ocellata). See Redfish. Note: The name is also applied to many other fishes. See Calico bass, under Calico.


Bass  n.  
1.
(Bot.) The linden or lime tree, sometimes wrongly called whitewood; also, its bark, which is used for making mats. See Bast.
2.
A hassock or thick mat.


Bass  n.  
1.
A bass, or deep, sound or tone.
2.
(Mus.)
(a)
The lowest part in a musical composition.
(b)
One who sings, or the instrument which plays, bass. (Written also base)
Thorough bass. See Thorough bass.


adjective
Bass  adj.  Deep or grave in tone.
Bass clef (Mus.), the character placed at the beginning of the staff containing the bass part of a musical composition.
Bass voice, a deep-sounding voice; a voice fitted for singing bass.


verb
Bass  v. t.  To sound in a deep tone. (R.)





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"Bass" Quotes from Famous Books



... heard, note by note, and like a child who is learning the piano, always goes back to the beginning of the piece when he strikes a false note. After many trials the whole air is discovered. Then the trombones and bass instruments put in the accompaniment also by experiment, and in the end the result is really quite good for Africans unlike Asiatics, take kindly ...
— A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State • Marcus Dorman
... die. Whereon this Miller both of corn and meal An hundred times more than before did steal; For, ere this chance, he stole but courteously, But now he was a thief outrageously. The Warden scolded with an angry air; But this the Miller rated not a tare: He sang high bass, and ...
— Playful Poems • Henry Morley
... bag which bore the name of a patent fertilizer; a small hand mowing-machine blocked the entrance; and a plank, too long to lie flat on the ground, had been propped slantwise between the floor and the roof. Bunches of bass hung from nails above the shelf; and on the wall opposite, a coloured advertisement, representing phloxes of so fierce an intensity of hue that nature was put to the blush, had been tacked by some ...
— The Ashiel mystery - A Detective Story • Mrs. Charles Bryce
... organ, and there was one whose face I well knew sitting at the keyboard, smiling and pluming himself like a bird as he thundered forth a giant fugue by way of overture. I heard the great pedal notes in the bass stalk majestically up and down, like the rays of the Aurora that go about upon the face of the heavens off the coast of Labrador. Then presently the people rose and sang the chorus "Venus laughing from the skies;" but ere the sound had well died away, I awoke, and all ...
— Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino • Samuel Butler
... old choir, with their fiddles and bass-viols,' said the home-comer, musingly. 'Are they still going on the same ...
— Life's Little Ironies - A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters • Thomas Hardy


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