Basil is valid Scrabble Word

Is basil a scrabble word?
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5 letters word
7 points in Scrabble
9 points in WWF

Definitions for BASIL in dictionary:

VERB:

To grind or form the edge of to an angle.

NOUN:

an aromatic herb
an aromatic plant of the mint family, native to tropical Asia. The leaves are used as a culinary herb, especially in Mediterranean dishes
a European plant which grows in hedges and scrub.
aromatic herb used in cooking
The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground.
The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum basilicum), and the bush basil, or lesser basil (O. minimum), the leaves of which are used in cookery. The name is also given to several kinds of mountain mint (Pycnanthemum).
The skin of a sheep tanned with bark.
any of several Old World tropical aromatic annual or perennial herbs of the genus Ocimum
(Roman Catholic Church) the bishop of Caesarea who defended the Roman Catholic Church against the heresies of the 4th century; a saint and Doctor of the Church (329-379)

leaves of the common basil; used fresh or dried

Words related to BASIL

Words that contain BASIL

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How to use BASIL in a sentence

Their chief cities are Cogno or Iconium, Caesarea, and Sebaste, where St Basil suffered martyrdom.
Basil was a little boy with impudent blue eyes and a turned-up nose, and Mary hated him.
In the same family we have the sage and the sweet or common basil, also giving up their essential oils on distillation.
My first thought was as to whether Basil Grant had called to fetch me.
We all three strode down the street in silence, Rupert feverish, myself dazed, Basil, to all appearance, merely dull.
There was a silence, and the blue eyes of Basil looked blindly for a few seconds into the void.
And the moment he had done it Basil Grant lifted his own leg and held it out rigid before him, confronting Chadd with the flat sole of his boot.
The other two flew at Basil, and pinned him against the wall.
Basil, ever ready on occasion, seized his pencil and soon transferred the group to paper, to the admiration of them all.
My little boy-messenger on this occasion was the son of Basil Montagu.

Basil Ransom was a young man of first-rate intelligence, but conscious of the narrow range, as yet, of his experience.
It struck even Basil Ransom with its flatness, and he said to himself that his cousin must have a very big bee in her bonnet to make her like such a house.
If people watched her a good deal, she also returned their contemplation, and her charming eyes had several times encountered those of Basil Ransom.
Basil Ransom could see she was a woman who could carry off an awkwardness like that, and he considered her with a sense of her importance.
She wanted to be able to tell everybody that Aline West and Basil Norman lived in her house for a fortnight in August.
Basil Norman was a man who had odd thoughts and enjoyed them.
She hoped for an inspiration at the last instant, as Basil had taught her to do in arranging a difficult situation between hero and heroine.
I was quite glad to find those two-agreeing about something, because ever since Basil joined us they have differed politely over nearly every subject that came up.
Perhaps it will seem to you just the right thing, because I know how difficult it is to plan what to do with me for the rest of my life, unless I marry Basil.
West will join Basil in a few days, and they will continue their tour together as if nothing had happened to interrupt it.
Oh, the only way, if Ian is to be made happy again in spite of himself, is for you to marry Basil.
She warmed herself on the window-sill in the sun beside a pot of basil.
He went, and in a moment returned, with the basil only partially hid in a paper covering.
That Harrington lit a fire, staid by the slaughtered elk through the night, to keep the wolves from devouring them, and that he, McConough, went and staid with Basil.
That Basil was a sort of hermit, who lived in the woods and kept two or three cows.
Basil Carruthers, with all his eccentricity, would have shuddered at the bare notion of dishonorable love or sin.
Seeing that, and feeling tired of the conversation, Basil followed her.
One morning Basil had called early, in the hope of escorting her to an exhibition of paintings.
Now listen, Basil, and do not wonder if I have ceased to believe in men.
Captain Basil Hall gives an amusing instance of such an occurrence.

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