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A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for
various other uses. |
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The quantity contained in a basin. |
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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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A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for
ships, a little bay. |
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A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of
the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake,
or traversed by a river. |
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The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping
towards a sea or lake. |
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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. |
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