Definition of basin

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Basin (n.) A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc..

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Basin :: Basin (n.) The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake..
Dock :: Dock (n.) An artificial basin or an inclosure in connection with a harbor or river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide..
Debasing :: Debasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Debas.
Fountain :: Fountain (n.) An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament..
Self-abasing :: Self-abasing (a.) Lowering or humbling one's self.
Aspersorium :: Aspersorium (n.) The stoup, basin, or other vessel for holy water in Roman Catholic churches..
Park :: Park (n.) A partially inclosed basin in which oysters are grown.
Abasement :: Abasement (n.) The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation..
Basinet :: Basinet (n.) Same as Bascinet.
Gastornis :: Gastornis (n.) A genus of large eocene birds from the Paris basin.
Basin :: Basin (n.) A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay..
Basined :: Basined (a.) Inclosed in a basin.
Atlantic :: Atlantic (a.) Of or pertaining to Mt. Atlas in Libya, and hence applied to the ocean which lies between Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west; as, the Atlantic Ocean (called also the Atlantic); the Atlantic basin; the Atlantic telegraph..
Bason :: Bason (n.) A basin.
Font :: Font (n.) A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing.
Basin :: Basin (n.) An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields..
Watershed :: Watershed (n.) The line of division between two adjacent rivers or lakes with respect to the flow of water by natural channels into them; the natural boundary of a basin.
Thinolite :: Thinolite (n.) A calcareous tufa, in part crystalline, occurring on a large scale as a shore deposit about the Quaternary lake basins of Nevada..
Posnet :: Posnet (n.) A little basin; a porringer; a skillet.
Tank :: Tank (n.) A large basin or cistern; an artificial receptacle for liquids.
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