bason

American  

[bey-suhn] / ˈbeɪ sən /

noun

Anglican Church.

1. a basin.

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bason

She had fetched a bason, and began carefully washing out the wound, which he suffered passively, like a child.

From L'Arrabiata and Other Tales by Paul Heyse

Butter a bason that will exactly hold it, flour the cloth, tie it tight over, and boil the pudding an hour.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton

At this point the stream spouted in a fountain from a cleft of rock, and fell some twelve feet into a deep bason.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

The bason which forms this beautiful harbor is surrounded by lofty mountains, which are so dry, that they are even destitute of water.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXX, 1640 by Antonio Alvarez de Abreu

Burtham had raised Jervas Rookley's head upon his knee, and Wilson was coming from the kitchen with a bason of water and a towel.

From Lawrence Clavering by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason