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Definitions: Basset |
BassetNoun1. Smooth-haired breed of hound with short legs and long ears. Verb1. Appear at the surface: "A seam of coal bassets". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "basset" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1592. (references) |
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Mining | A. The outcropping edge of a geological stratum b. The shallow or rise side of a working. c. Coal outcrop d. An obsolete term for the noun outcrop and the verb to crop ou. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The game of Basset (in French Bassette, from Italian Bassetta) was considered one of the most polite games with cards, and only fit for persons of the highest rank to play at, on account of the great losses or gains that might accrue on one side or the other.
The sums of money lost in France at this game were so considerable that the princes of the blood were in danger of being undone; and after many persons of distinction were ruined the court of France thought fit to forbid Basset. Then Faro was invented; and both were soon introduced into England, and after three or four years' play here, they impoverished so many families, that Parliament enacted a suppression of both games, with severe penalties. The two games are, therefore, of historical interest, and deserve an explanation.
Basset was a sort of lottery. The dealer who kept the bank at Basset, having the sole disposal of the first and last card, and other considerable privileges in dealing the cards, had a much greater prospect of gaining than those who played. This was a truth so acknowledged in France that the king, by public edict, ordered that the privilege of a talliere, or banker at Basset, should only be allowed to the 'chief cadets,' or sons of noblemen -- supposing that whoever kept the bank must, in a very short time, acquire a considerable fortune.
In this game there was:
After the fasse was turned up, and the talliere and croupiere had looked round the cards on the table, and taken advantage of the money laid on them, the former proceeded with his deal; and the next card appearing, whether the king, queen, ace, or whatever it might be, won for the player, the latter might receive it, or making paroli, as before said, go on to sept-et-le-va. The card after that won for the talliere, who took money from each player's card of that sort, and brought it into his bank -- obviously a prodigious advantage in the talliere over the players.
The talliere, if the winning card was a king, and the next after it was a ten, said (showing the cards all round), 'King wins, ten loses,' paying the money to such cards as are of the winning sort, and taking the money from those who lost, added it to his bank. This done, he went on with the deal, it might be after this fashion -- 'Ace wins, five loses; 'Knave wins, seven loses;' and so on, every other card alternately winning and losing, till all the pack was dealt but the last card.
The last card turned up was, by the rules of the game, for the advantage of the talliere; although a player might have one of the same sort, still it was allowed to him as one of the dues of his office, and he paid nothing on it.
The bold player who was lucky and adventurous, and could push on his couch with a considerable stake to sept-et-le-va, quinze-et-le-va, trente-et-le-va, &c., must in a wonderful manner have multiplied his couch, or first stake; but this was seldom done; and the loss of the players, by the very nature of the game, invariably exceeded that of the bank; in fact, this game was altogether in favour of the bank; and yet it is evident that -- in spite of this obvious conviction -- the game must have been one of the most tempting and fascinating that was ever invented.
Our English adventurers made this game very different to what it was in France, for there, by royal edict, the public at large were not allowed to play at more than a franc or ten-penny bank, -- and the losses or gains could not bring desolation to a family; but in England our punters could do as they liked -- staking from one guinea to one hundred guineas and more, upon a card, 'as was often seen at court,' says the old author, my informant. When the couch was alpieued, parolied, to sept-et-le-va, quinze-et-le-va, trente-et-le-va, &c., the punter's gains were prodigious, miraculous; and if fortune befriended him so as to bring his stake to soissante-et-le-va, he was very likely to break the bank, by gaining a sum which no talliere could pay after such tremendous multiplication. But this rarely happened. The general advantage was with the bank -- as must be quite evident from the explanation of the game -- besides the standing rule that no two cards of the same sort turning up could win for the players; the second always won for the bank. In addition to this there were other 'privileges' which operated vastly in favour of the banker.
However, it was 'of so bewitching a nature,' says our old writer, 'by reason of the several multiplications and advantages which it seemingly offered to the unwary punter, that a great many like it so well that they would play at small game rather than give out; and rather than not play at all would punt at six-penny, three-penny, nay, a twopenny bank, -- so much did the hope of winning the quinze-et-le-va and the trente-et-le-va intoxicate them.'
Of course there were frauds practised at Basset by the talliere, or banker, in addition to his prescriptive advantages. The cards might be dealt so as not to allow the punter any winning throughout the pack; and it was in the power of the dealer to let the punter have as many winnings as he thought convenient, and no more!
It is said that Basset was invented by a noble Venetian, who was punished with exile for the contrivance. The game was prohibited by Louis XIV, in 1691, and soon after fell into oblivion in France, although flourishing in England. It was also called Barbacole and Hocca.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Basset."
Synonyms: BassetSynonyms: basset hound (n), crop out (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Basset |
| English words defined with "basset": basset horn, basset hound, basset oboe, Basseted, Basseting ♦ Corni di basseto, Corno di bassetto. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "basset": Alpue, Alpieu ♦ coming up to grass. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Basset" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (Basset, hound), German (basset hound), Spanish (Basset). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | "It has been brought to my attention that we must deal with a deadly disease." / Basset.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Magna Carta | 1215 | Know that, having regard to God and for the salvation of our soul, and those of all our ancestors and heirs, and unto the honor of God and the advancement of his holy Church and for the rectifying of our realm, we have granted as underwritten by advice of our venerable fathers, Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England and cardinal of the holy Roman Church, Henry, archbishop of Dublin, William of London, Peter of Winchester, Jocelyn of Bath and Glastonbury, Hugh of Lincoln, Walter of Worcester, William of Coventry, Benedict of Rochester, bishops; of Master Pandulf, subdeacon and member of the household of our lord the Pope, of brother Aymeric (master of the Knights of the Temple in England), and of the illustrious men William Marshal, earl of Pembroke, William, earl of Salisbury, William, earl of Warenne, William, earl of Arundel, Alan of Galloway (constable of Scotland), Waren Fitz Gerold, Peter Fitz Herbert, Hubert De Burgh (seneschal of Poitou), Hugh de Neville, Matthew Fitz Herbert, Thomas Basset, Alan Basset, Philip d'Aubigny, Robert of Roppesley, John Marshal, John Fitz Hugh, and others, our liegemen. (reference) |
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Economic History | Libya | One of these suspects, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, was found guilty; the other was acquitted. (references) |
Libya | On January 31, 2001, a Scottish court seated in Netherlands found one of the suspects, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, guilty of murder in connection with the bombing, and acquitted the second suspect, Al-Amin Kalifa Fhima. (references) | |
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| "Basset" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 73.08% of the time. "Basset" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 73.08% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (singular) | 26.92% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "basset" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Basset | Last name | 100 | 75,165 |
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Expressions using "basset": Basset horn ♦ basset hound ♦ basset oboe. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "basset": basset-horn, basset-horns, basset-hound. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
basset hound | 2,632 |
basset | 303 |
basset hound puppy | 185 |
basset hound rescue | 154 |
basset hound picture | 137 |
basset hound for sale | 88 |
basset hound breeders | 84 |
angela basset | 52 |
basset hound puppy for sale | 50 |
basset rescue | 35 |
basset puppy | 30 |
basset racing wheels | 28 |
basset hound puppy picture | 28 |
basset direct furniture | 27 |
lucinda basset | 25 |
basset vaughn | 22 |
basset hound photo | 22 |
basset hound pic | 20 |
basset hound information | 19 |
basset fred | 18 |
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| Language | Translations for "basset"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الباست كلب طويل الجسم فصير القوائم, البارز, برز على السطح. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Порода "ребни Ловджийски Кучета. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Baset. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | blotning (blotting, ontcropping, outcrop, outcropping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | operatie van Basset (Basset operation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Basset, affleurement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Dachshund (dachshund). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Είδοσ ίυνηγετικού Σκύλου (Talbot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | borzeb (dachshund). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Bassotto (dachshund, sausage dog). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | "셋 하운". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | moddey brock. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | assetbay Bassê (dachshund), Jogo De Cartas Antigo. (various references) Stos (faro). (various references) 'ыход Пластов, Бассет. (various references) baset, lišičar. (various references) Afloramiento (ontcropping, outcrop). (various references) Tax (dachshund, sausage dog). (various references) Uzun Gövdeli Ve Kısa Bacaklı Bir Av Köpeği. (various references) Такса, 'ихід На Поверхню Пласта, 'иходити На Поверхню. (various references) b i baxet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | bas. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "basset": basseted, basseting, bassets, bassetted, bassetting. (additional references) | |
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"Basset" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: absat, absit, baissez, bapst, Bascelt, baseej, basert, baset, basett, Basiti, basqe, Bassai, bassat, Bassatne, basse, bassed, Bassee, bassel, Bassem, basser, bassia, bassij, Bassix, Bassnet, Basstech, bastet, Basutu, Bazett, beassst, Bessay, besser, Besset, Bessey, besteht, bisit, Bissets, Bissex, bissot, bizjet, blass-ee, Boesset, Bossert, Bosslet, Bossuet, Bousset, bozzetti, bozzetto, Brassett, fasset, hasset, Masset. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "basset" (pronounced ba"sut) |
| 4 | -a" s u t | facet, tacit. |
| 3 | -s u t | complicit, corset, cosset, deficit, dulcet, elicit, explicit, faucet, illicit, implicit, knesset, Lancet, russet, solicit. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: basest, bastes, beasts. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: abets, asset, bases, baste, basts, bates, beast, beats, bests, betas, easts, sabes, sates, seats, stabs, tabes, tasse. | |
-2 letters: abet, ates, base, bass, bast, bate, bats, beat, best, beta, bets, east, eats, etas, sabe, sabs, sate, seas, seat, seta, sets, stab, tabs, tass, teas. | |
-3 letters: abs, ass, ate, bas, bat, bet, eat, ess, eta, sab, sae, sat, sea, set, tab, tae, tas, tea. | |
-4 letters: ab, ae, as, at, ba, be, es, et, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: absents, baskets, bassets, basters, breasts, stables. | |
+2 letters: abatises, abstruse, asbestic, asbestos, asbestus, astilbes, backsets, baptises, basaltes, basinets, basseted, bassinet, bastiles, bathless, bathoses, batistes, beasties, beatless, besteads, blasters, blasties, boasters, brashest, dabsters, gabfests, postbase, seaboots, setbacks, sorbates, stabbers, stabiles, stablers, stablest, subcaste, sublates, substage, substate, tabbises. | |
+3 letters: abattises, absentees, absenters, absinthes, absolutes, absterges, abstruser, absurdest, arbalests, arbelests, arbutuses, autobuses, backrests, backseats, ballsiest, balusters, banisters, barghests, barguests, basements, basseting, bassetted, bassinets, bastilles, batfishes, battiness, beastings, bedstands, bedsteads, bedstraws, bestowals, bethesdas, blastemas, blastiest, botanises, brashiest, brassiest, cabestros, cabrestas, cabrestos, databases, epiblasts, establish, gustables, lambastes, obstacles, ratsbanes, sabotages, saboteurs, saltboxes, scabbiest, seatbelts, shabbiest, sibilates, storables, subagents, subcastes, substages, substance, substates, substrate, sunbathes, sybarites, tarbushes. | |
+4 letters: abasements, abashments, abjectness, abruptness, absolutest, absorbents, abstainers, abstemious, abstrusely, abstrusest, adsorbates, adsorbents, alabasters, antibioses, asbestoses, asbestosis, asbestuses, ascorbates, astrolabes, autobusses, bannisters, barristers, basicities, basketfuls, basketries, basketsful, bassetting, bastardies, bastardise, bastinades, bathhouses, beanstalks, beastliest, beefsteaks, bespatters, bestiaries, bisulfates, blastments, boathouses, brattiness, breakfasts, breathless, brutalises, bushmaster, bystanders, constables, flashtubes, grubstakes, herbalists, houseboats, isobutanes, obfuscates, oblateness, observants, osteoblast, rebaptisms, redbreasts, saltbushes, sanbenitos, sauceboats, sawtimbers, snakebites, speedboats, squabbiest, stabilizes, stableness, stablished, stablishes, steamboats, stoneboats, streambeds, stylobates, subalterns, subjugates, sublimates, submarkets, subrogates, substances, substrates, subtenants, sunbathers, sweatbands, sweatboxes, tarbooshes, unstablest, verbalists. | |
+5 letters: abiogenists, absenteeism, absolutizes, abstentions, abstentious, abstinences, abstracters, abstractest, absurdities, albatrosses, algebraists, ambushments, ameloblasts, babysitters, backstreets, backstrokes, balustrades, bandmasters, banishments, baptistries, basketballs, basketworks, bastardised, bastardises, bastardizes, bastinadoes, battinesses, battleships, beastliness, belatedness, bestializes, biosafeties, blastocoels, blastoderms, blastomeres, blastopores, blastospore, breadsticks, breadstuffs, breastbones, breastworks, breathiness, broadsheets, bushmasters, debasements, disbarments, established, establisher, establishes, fastballers, gangbusters, grubstakers, handbaskets, hartebeests, liberalists, masturbates, metabolisms, myeloblasts, notableness, obstinacies, osteoblasts, pasteboards, potableness, reestablish, rouseabouts, sailboaters, salubrities, sandblasted, sandblaster, satisfiable, scrabbliest, sheathbills, shortbreads, skateboards, softballers, stabilities, stabilizers, stablemates, staggerbush, suabilities, subbasement, subchapters, subdialects, submediants, subprimates, substantive, subtracters, subtrahends, subtreasury, sustainable, sweetbreads, sweetbriars, tablespoons, tenableness, transcribes, tunableness, usabilities, vibratoless, wastebasket, workbaskets. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 73 73 65 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- ... ... . - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01110011 01110011 01100101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a s s e t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0073 0073 0065 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)366785857186 |
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