Basset

Basset - Other Definitions

• (n.) A game at cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have been invented at Venice.
  
  
• (a.) Inclined upward; as, the basset edge of strata.
  
  
• (n.) The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop.
  
  
• (v. i.) To inclined upward so as to appear at the surface; to crop out; as, a vein of coal bassets.
  
  
• horn (a.) An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves.
  
  
• hound () A small kind of hound with a long body and short legs, used as an earth dog.
  
  
• (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Basset
  
  
• (n.) The upward direction of a vein in a mine; the emergence of a stratum at the surface.