Basset dictionary definition

basset

bas·set

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a kind of hound with a long body, short, crooked forelegs, and long, drooping ears, used in hunting

also basset hound

Origin of basset

OFr, short-legged dog, origin, originally , short, diminutive of basse, feminine of bas, base

outcrop

Origin of basset

from uncertain or unknown; perhaps French basset, diminutive of basse: see basset

to appear at or emerge above the surface

Noun

(countable and uncountable, plural bassets)

(geology) The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop.
(uncountable) A card game resembling faro.

Verb

(third-person singular simple present bassets, present participle basseting, simple past and past participle basseted)

(geology, intransitive) To incline upward so as to appear at the surface.
A vein of coal bassets.

Origin

From French bassette, from Italian bassetta.

See also: bâsset

About a century later the manor was acquired by the Basset family.
Basset in the Patrologia orient., and that of the Ethiopian synaxarium was begun by I.
- Bloodhound, otterhound, foxhound, harrier, beagle, basset hound (smooth and rough), dachshund, greyhound, deerhound, Borzoi, Irish wolfhound, whippet, pointer, setter (English, Irish and black and tan), retriever (flat-coated, curlycoated and Labrador), spaniel (Irish water, water other than Irish, Clumber, Sussex, field, English springer, other than Clumber, Sussex and field: Welsh springer, red and white and Cocker); fox terriers (smoothand wire-coated); Irish terrier, Scotch terrier, Welsh terrier, Dandie Dinmont terrier, Skye terrier (prick-eared and drop-eared), Airedale terrier and Bedlington terrier.
Basset hounds are long and crooked-legged dogs, with pendulous ears.
Translations: In addition to the translations given in the preceding editions, Basset, Les Apocryphes ethiopiens, iii.