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noun

Bass n. (pl. bass, and sometimes basses) (Zool.)

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).

The two American fresh-water species of black bass (genus Micropterus). See Black bass.

Species of Serranus, the sea bass and rock bass. See Sea bass.

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.

(Bot.) The linden or lime tree, sometimes wrongly called whitewood; also, its bark, which is used for making mats. See Bast.

A hassock or thick mat.

Bass n.

A bass, or deep, sound or tone.

(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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Etymology of 'Bass'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bass" Quotes from Famous Books

... but is not so well as last year. The Rosa Maricini, who is second woman, and whom I suppose you have heard, is now old. In the room of Amorevoli, they have got a dreadful bass, who, the Duke of Montagu says he believes, was organist ...

— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 1 • Horace Walpole

... much to abstract him from outward life, he could hardly be said to live in the world that was bustling around him. Almost the only relaxation that he allowed himself was an occasional performance on a bass-viol which stood in the corner of his study, and from which he loved to elicit some old-fashioned tune of soothing potency. At meal-times, however, dragged down and harassed as his spirits were, he brightened ...

— Biographical Sketches - (From: "Fanshawe and Other Pieces") • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... the pathetic shade in the redemption of this State from crime and lawlessness. In the village burying-ground of Round Rock, Texas, is a simple headstone devoid of any lettering save the name "Sam Bass." His long career of crime and lawlessness would fill a good-sized volume. He met his death at the hands of Texas Rangers. Years afterward a woman, with all the delicacy of her sex, and knowing the odium that was attached to his career, came to this town from her ...

— Cattle Brands - A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories • Andy Adams

... had last beheld him, was a gawky lad, at that uncomfortable age when the voice varies between an unearthly treble and a preternatural bass; when the face not uncommonly blooms out with appearances for which Rowland's Kalydor is said to act as a cure; when boys are seen to shave furtively with their sister's scissors, and the sight of other young women produces intolerable sensations of terror in them; when the great hands ...

— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray

... lake-like river with its green islets dotting the surface, while, at a short distance, the Fall of the Yaupaae precipitated itself over a rocky declivity, mingling, in the genial season of the year, a noble bass with the songs of birds and the sighing of the wind, and adding to and deepening in the rougher months, the roar of the tempest. A small stream diverted from the river, turned the wheel of a moss-grown ...

— The Lost Hunter - A Tale of Early Times • John Turvill Adams

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