bason

See also: bas-on, Bason, and Basoń

English

Noun

bason (plural basons)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of basin.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     To proceed therefore, put a looking-glass into a bason of water; I suppose you shall not see the image in a right line, or at equal angles, but aside.

   • 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 13:

     “Sure, my dear Sir Thomas, a bason of soup would be a much better thing for you than tea. Do have a bason of soup.”

   • 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XV, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 297:

     Not a moment could be lost: the very sheets were kindling. I rushed to his bason and ewer; fortunately, one was wide and the other deep, and both were filled with water.

   • 1939 July, Charles E. Lee, “Swannington: One-Time Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 3:

     [...] on July 16, 1790, a public meeting [...] unanimously approved of a scheme for making the River Soar navigable from Leicester to Loughborough, and "a cut or rail-way from Swannington and the neighbourhood to the bason at Loughborough."

References

• “bason”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• AONBs, Abson, Banos, Bosna

Esperanto

Noun

bason

1. accusative singular of baso

Middle English

Noun

bason

1. (Late Middle English) alternative form of basyn

Pagu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈba.son]

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Verb

bason (epenthetic form basono)

1. to feel

References

• Perangin Angin, Dalan Mehuli (2023), Kamus Pagu-Indonesia-Inggris, Jakarta: Penerbit BRIN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French basson.

Noun

bason n (plural basoane)

1. bassoon

   Synonym: fagot

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	bason	basonul		basoane	basoanele
genitive-dative	bason	basonului		basoane	basoanelor
vocative	basonule			basoanelor

References

• bason in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN