| Basin (basin) |
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| n. | ((?)) |
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| Ba"sin |
| [OF. bacin, F.
bassin, LL. bacchinus, fr. bacca a water vessel, fr.
L. bacca berry, in allusion to the round shape; or perh. fr. Celtic.
Cf. Bac.]
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A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for
washing, and for various other uses.
The quantity contained in a basin.
A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials,
used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for
forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape,
etc.
A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a
dock for ships, a little bay.
A
circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the
lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a
river.
An isolated or circumscribed
formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a
center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal
basins or coal fields.
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