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 B A S BAS ( 527 ) xim among muficians. That when the bafs is good, the Basis, among phyficians, denotes the principd ingre- harmony is feldom bad. dients in compound medicines. the harmony made by the bafs-viols-, BASKET, a machine made of twigs interwoven toge- Thorough-^is continuing to play both while the voices ther, in order to hold.fruit, earth, &e. It denotes orfing,theorbos, the other indruments perform their parts, an uncertain quantity, as a bafket of medlars is two and alfoandfilling up the intervals when any of the other - bufhels, of afa foetida from 20 to 50 pound weight. parts flop. It is played by cyphers marked over the Baskets of earth, in the military art, called by the notes, the organ, fpinet, harplicord, fac. and freFrench corbeilles, are fmall bafkets ufed in lieges, on quentlyonAmply the parapet of a trench, being filled with earth. They and baffoon. and without cyphers on the bafs-viol are about a foot and a half high, about a foot and a is a fecond or double bafs, where there half diameter at the top, and 8 or 10 inches at bot- £W/j/<?/--Bass are feveral in the fame concert. tom; fo that being fet together, there is a fort of em- Bass, in geography, a deep rock, with an old fort, acbraflures left at their bottoms, through which the folceflible only at one place,, lying on the coalt of E. Lodiers fire, without expofing themfelves. thain in Scotland, at the mouth of the frith of Forth. Basket-fish. See Asterias. or BACCEIM, a port-town of the Hither Basket-salt, that made from fa!t-fprings^ being purer, BASSAIM, India, fubjedt0 to the Portuguefe, fituated in 710 j'Ef whiter, and compofed of finer grains- than the com- long, and 19 3c/ N. lat. mon brine-falt. Basket-tenure, a tenure of lands by the fervice of BASS ANUS, in ornithology. See Pelican us. BASSEE, a town of French making the king’s bafkets. 0 Flanders, upon the confinesBASKIRI, a country of Mufcovitilh Tartary, bounded of Artois, fituated in 3 3c/ E. Ion. and 50° 53' N. lat. on the north by the Tartars of Tumen, on the call by BASSEMPOIN, a town of Gafcony, in France. a game at cards, faid to have been invented Barabinfkoi, on the fouth by the tnountain Sortora, BASSET, by a noble Venetian, for which he was baniffied. and on the welt by the dutchy of Bulgaria. The perfons concerned in it are a dealer, or Tanker; BASON, in anatomy. See Pelvis. Bason, in hydraulics, a refervoir of water, ufed for va- his affidant, who fupervifes the lofing cards; and the. rious purpofes : Thus we fay, The bafon of a jet punter, or any one who plays againd the banker. d'eau, the bafon of a fountain, and likewife the bajon BxiSSIGNY, the fogth ead divifion of the province of Champaign, in Fiance. See Campaign. of a port or harbour. Bason, in Jewifh antiquities, the laver of the taberna- BASSOON, a mulieal indrument of the wind-fort, blown cle, made of the brafs looking-glafles belonging to with a reed, farniffied with eleven holes, and ufed asthofe devout women that watched and flood centinels a bafs in a concert of hautboys, flutes, <bc. To render this indrument more portable, it is diat the door of the tabernacle. Bason, in mechanics, a term ufed by glafs-grinders for vided into two parts, whence it is alfo called a fagot. a dilh of copper, iron, &c. in which they grind con- Its diameter at bottom is nine inches, and its holes are vex glaffes, as concave ones are formed on fpheres : flopped like thofe of a large flute. And by hatters for a round iron mould, in which they BASSORA, a large city of Afia, fituated 0below the conform the matter of their hats; and alfo for a leaden flux of the Tigris and Euphrates, in 53 E. long, and: one for the brims of- hats, having an aperture in the 30° 20 N. lat. middle, of a diameter fufficient for the largeft block to BASSO-RELIEVO, or Bass-relief, a piece of fculpgo through. ture, where the figures or images do not protuberate,. Ba s o n s <?/■ a balance, the two feales or difhes faftened jet, or dand out far. above the plane on which they, to the extremities of the firings, the one to hold the are formed. weight, and the other the thing to- be weighed. Whatever figures or reprefentations are thus-cut,, Sale by the Bason, at Amflerdam, is a public fale made damped, or otherwife wrought, fo that not the entire by authority, over which prefides an officer, appointed body, but only part of it is raifed above the, plane, areby the magiflrates. It is fo called, becaufe, before faid to be done in relief, or relievo; and when that the lots are delivered to the highefl bidder, they com- work is low, .flat, and but a little raifed, it is called" monly ftrike on a copper bafon, to give notice that the low reliefr When a piece of fculpture, a coin, ora lot is going to be adjudged. medal, has its figure raifed. fo as to be well diflinBASQUE, or Labour, the fouth-weft'divifion of the guiffied, it is called bold, and we fay its relief is flrong. province of Gafcony, in France. BASS-VIOL, indrument-of the like form with: BASS, in mufic, that part of a concert which is moft that of a violin,a mufical but much larger. It is Aruek with a heard, which confifts of the graved and deeped founds, bow as that is, has the fame number of. flrings, and and which is played on the larged pipes or drings of a has eight flops, which are fubdivided into femi-ltops:: common indrument, as of an organ, lute, drc. or on Its found is grave, and has a much nobler effedt in a indruments larger than ordinary, for that purpofe, as concert than that of the viohn. bafs-viols, balloons, bafs-hautboys, <tpc. The. bafs BASTERNA, a fort of vehicle, much the fame with is the principal part of a mufical compofition, and the our chariot, ufed by the ancient Roman ladies. This foundation, of harmony; for which reafon it. is a ma- was a different carriage from the ledtica, which it fuc-ceeded3,