Bason

Water sometimes collects in the bason, which is remarkably cold, and is kept in ebullition by the vapour issuing through it. ❋ Unknown (1826)

The Warm spring issues with a very bold stream, sufficient to work a grist-mill, and to keep the waters of its bason, which is 30 feet in diameter, at the vital warmth, viz. 96° of Farenheit's thermometer. ❋ Unknown (1826)

The Warm spring issues with a very bold stream, sufficient to work a grist-mill, and to keep the waters of its bason, which is 30 feet in diameter, at the vital warmth, viz. 96x of Farenheit's thermometer. ❋ Unknown (1781)

In this place a group of rocky hills almost surround a large bason, which is the general receptacle of the water, draining from every part of the vast savanna, by lateral conduits, winding about, and one after another joining the main creek or general conductor, which at length delivers them into this sink; where they descend by slow degrees, through rocky caverns, into the bowels of the earth, whence they are carried by secret subterraneous channels into other receptacles and basons. ❋ Unknown (1823)

There is a large fountaine or bason which is to resemble that in the privy garden at Whitehall, which will ffront the house. ❋ Unknown (1888)

The heat of this water before it rose out of the earth could not be ascertained, as water looses all its heat above 212 (as soon as it is at liberty to expand) by the exhalation of a part, but the flinty bason which is deposited from it shews that water with great degrees of heat will dissolve siliceous matter. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

Plain on each Side, passed thro narrows for 3 miles where the Clifts of rocks juted to the river on each Side compressing the water of the river through a narrow chanel; below which it widens into a kind of bason nearly round without any proceptiable current, at the lower part of this bason is a bad dificuelt and dangerous rapid to pass, at the upper part of this rapid we over took the three Indians who had Polited us thro the rapids from the forks. those people with our 2 Chiefs had proceeded on to this place where they thought proper to delay for us to warn us of the difficulties of this rapid. we landed at a parcel of ❋ Meriwether Lewis (1791)

It looks prodigiously as if just imported out of the slop bason. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Miss Margland, who, with a malicious smile, asked if she was going to hold the bason? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Miss Margland, he stretched forth for the tea-pot, to pour out a bason of tea; not ceasing the libation till the saucer itself, overcharged, sent his beverage in trickling rills from the tablecloth to the floor. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Colors are washed; by being mixed with a proper quantity of fair water, till the water is thoroughly colored; if the surface of it appear greasy, take off that scum, and pour the colored water into a clean bason, leaving the grosser sediment behind; the water thus poured off, will in a little time deposit a quantity of color. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Put the cake into an earthen dish or bason; the bottom of which should be rubbed with linseed oil, and pour on it water of the warmth of blood. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Being thus mixed, heat the composition to a something greater degree, and cast it into a large bason full of cold water. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Into a granite bason the amber torrent descended ... .. ❋ Unknown (2007)

We got immediately into the coach, and drove to Dunbui, a rock near the shore, quite covered with sea-fowls; then to a circular bason of large extent, surrounded with tremendous rocks. ❋ Unknown (2006)

‘I cannot agree with you, sir; a bason of cold water, or a horse whip, will cure laziness.’ ❋ Unknown (2006)

And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Also pure gold for the fleshhooks, and the bowls, and the cups: and for the golden basons he gave gold by weight for every bason; and likewise silver by weight for every bason of silver: ❋ Unknown (2006)