单词 | basset |
释义 | bassetn.1 A short-legged dog used in unearthing foxes and badgers. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > basset-hound basset1600 basset-hound1883 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vii. xxxvii. 865 Couple vp all the olde earth dogs: and after let loose the yoong ones, incouraging them to take the earth, and crying vnto them: creepe into them basset, creepe into them. 1885 Daily News 2 May 3/5 Pictures of harriers and bassets. Compounds basset-hound n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > basset-hound basset1600 basset-hound1883 1883 Illustr. Sporting & Dramatic News 23 June 371/2 The last new club is ‘The Basset-hound Club’, its objects being to promote the breeding of pure Basset-hounds d'Artois, rough and smooth. 1928 Morning Post 20 Oct. 6/1 Basset Hounds—those wholly delightful miniatures of the classic Bloodhound. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2021). bassetn.2 An obsolete card game, resembling Faro, first played at Venice. Hence basset-table. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > games of chance played with cards > [noun] > basset basset1645 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > games of chance played with cards > [noun] > basset > table basset-table1705 1645 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 211 We went to the Chetto de San Felice, to see the noblemen..at Basset, a game at cards which is much used. 1705 J. Vanbrugh Confederacy i. ii Advised her to set up a basset-table. 1706 A. Pope Basset-table in Lady M. W. Montagu et al. Court Poems 8 Look upon Basset, you who Reason boast; And see if Reason may not there be lost. a1718 N. Rowe Royal Convert Prol. 8 Not to forget Your Piquet Parties, and your dear Basset. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 347 Gamblers playing deep at basset. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2021). bassetn.3 Geology. The edge of a geological stratum showing at the surface of the ground; an outcrop. ΚΠ 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 131 To what points soever the rise & dip direct their course, the row, side basset or streek, lyes quite contrary. c1810 Edinb. Encycl. (1830) III. 396 The regular basset or outcrop of the Bedford limestone. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online September 2018). bassetv.1 In phrase to basset away: to play away at basset. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > games of chance played with cards > [verb (transitive)] > play at basset to basset away1712 1712 W. Darrell Gentleman Instructed: 3rd Pt. i. 43 He had bassetted away his Money, and good humour. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2018). bassetv.2 Geology. Of strata: To crop out at the surface. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [verb (intransitive)] > crop out crop1665 basset1783 skirt1806 to crop up1844 outcrop1848 to crop out1849 overstep1883 1783 Wedgewood in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 73 284 I collected some of this earth, which bassetted out..near Winster. 1843 J. E. Portlock Rep. Geol. Londonderry 98 The strata of the chalk basset, therefore, to the north. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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