Basset dictionary definition

basset

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

basset

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

Basset hounds are long and crooked-legged dogs, with pendulous ears.
Camborne (Cambron, Camron) formed a portion of the extensive manor of Tehidy, which at the time of the Domesday Survey was held by the earl of Mortain and subsequently by the Dunstanville and Basset families.
A house of Austin Friars was founded at Atherstone by Ralph Lord Basset of Drayton, which, however, never rose to much importance, and at its dissolution in 1536 was valued at 30 shillings and 3 pence only.
Jefferson did not read excesses in Paris as warnings against democracy, but as warnings against the abuses ' Jefferson did not sympathize with the temper of his followers who condoned the zealous excesses of Genet, and in general with the"'misbehaviour "of the democratic clubs; but, as a student of English liberties, he could not accept Washington's doctrine that for a self-created permanent body to declare" this act unconstitutional, and that act pregnant with mischiefs "was" a stretch of arrogant presumption "which would, if unchecked," destroy the country."6 John Basset Moore, American Diplomacy (New York, 1905)..
About a century later the manor was acquired by the Basset family.

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