Basset

n. [Fr. bassette, It. bassetta, from bassetto, somewhat low, dim. of basso, low. See BASE, n.] A game at cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have been invented at Venice by a nobleman, who was banished for the invention.

*Some dress, some dance, some play, not to forget Your piquet parties, and your dear basset.* Rowe.

n. [See infra.] (Geol.) The emergence of strata at the surface; the outcrop. Lyell.

[Cf. O. Fr. basset, somewhat low, dim. of bas, low, and bas-il.] (Geol.) To incline upward so as to appear at the surface; to crop out; as, a vein of coal bassets.

a. Inclined upward; as the basset edge of strata. Lyell.