bason

See also: bas-on and Basoń

English

Noun

bason (plural basons)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of basin
   • (Can we date this quote by Francis Bacon and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     To proceed therefore, put a looking-glass into a bason of water; I suppose you shall not see the image in a right line, or at equal angles, but aside.

   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, 1st edition, chapter XV, page 297

     Not a moment could be lost: the very sheets were kindling. I rushed to his bason and ewer; fortunately, one was wide and the other deep, and both were filled with water.

References

• “bason”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• AONBs, Banos, Bosna

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Esperanto

Noun

bason

1. accusative singular of baso