base (2 a 16th cent. use, e.g. ‘colored high or base’)
1.
low, low-lying
R2 II. iv. 20
“the earth,”
Lucr. 664.
2.
(?) dark-coloured
(with pun on fig. senses)
Tit. IV. ii. 72
“is black so base a
hue?”
