(n.) A game at cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have been invented at Venice.
(a.) Inclined upward; as, the basset edge of strata.
(n.) The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop.
(v. i.) To inclined upward so as to appear at the surface; to crop out; as, a vein of coal bassets.
Example Sentences:
(1) The association of this infection in Basset Hounds suggests an inherited immunologic defect.
(2) Get with the programme or your ratings will continue to droop like the sad features of a basset hound.
(3) The mother presented a unilateral racket thumb-nail (localized brachyonychia "en raquette" of Basset).
(4) Afghanistan might now look tolerably stable, if only all the resources squandered in Iraq been spent there – with no bodies mourned on the streets of Wootton Basset.
(5) An adult Basset Hound was examined because of acute vomiting, signs of depression, dehydration, and signs of abdominal pain.
(6) Because of a thrombasthenia-like platelet aggregation defect, platelets from dogs affected with Basset Hound Hereditary Thrombopathy were compared to normal control dog platelets by three different techniques in order to assess platelet membrane glycoprotein content.
(7) A progressive, hereditary disease has been observed in Basset Hounds, which appears clinically and neuromorphologically as myoclonus epilepsy (ME) and is similar to Lafora-Glueck disease in humans.
(8) First, the identification of a partial trisomy of the 5q11-q13 region (Basset et al., 1988) led Sherrington et al.
(9) More recently he had been at the centre of controversy again when he was accused of being one of the key players behind the scenes pushing for the Scottish courts to release the convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi.
(10) Libya accepted responsibility for the atrocity, for which intelligence agent Abdel-Basset al-Megrahi was convicted.
(11) Aspirin dosages calculated from published pharmacokinetic data were tested in 3 male and 3 female Basset Hounds.
(12) In the Netherlands primary glaucoma is seen especially in the American Cocker Spaniel, Bouvier and Basset breeds.
(13) A 3-year-old female Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen is presented with tenesmus alvi caused by a 15 cm long chronic regional cicatrising eosinophilic coloproctitis with bacterial masses surrounded by clubs, resembling actinomycosis.
(14) Related affections are discussed with reference to these cases; the trichrome vitiligo described by Lerner and Fitzpatrick, and the primary leukomelanodermas described in black patients by Basset and by Sarrat and Nouhouayi.
(15) CIE and NR-R gels detected no differences between affected Basset Hound and control dog platelets.
(16) Naturally-occurring neosporosis with multiple organ involvement was identified in a 10-year-old neutered male Basset hound dog.
(17) A review of canine tuberculosis revealed a similar diagnosis in a Basset Hound.
(18) His point is that it is human nature to respond warmly and positively to animals – providing a possible explanation for the popularity of trademark Buzzfeed posts such as " 60 Basset Hounds In Costumes " and " 31 Cats Who Have Seen Things You Wouldn't Believe ".
(19) Basset Hound Hereditary Thrombopathy (BHT) is an autosomally inherited disorder of platelet function characterized by a thrombasthenia-like defect in aggregation but normal clot retraction.
(20) In 2 Basset Hounds, the condyloid processes of the mandible became subluxated when the mouth was opened widely, resulting in repeated episodes of locking of the coronoid process lateral to the zygomatic arch.
Outcrop
Definition:
(n.) The coming out of a stratum to the surface of the ground.
(n.) That part of inclined strata which appears at the surface; basset.
(v. i.) To come out to the surface of the ground; -- said of strata.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."
(2) A rocky outcrop on the edge of the continent, now called the Point Lobos state reserve, it is a beautifully elemental place that remains much as it was in Weston's time.
(3) Both Bishop and Shorten said operational details of freedom-of-navigation exercises were a matter for the military, and did not call for such operations within 12 nautical miles of Chinese rock outcrops or artificial islands.
(4) • enjoythecoast.it Plage de Bon Secours, Saint-Malo, France Facebook Twitter Pinterest On calm days, there is a striking contrast between the mirror-like surface of Saint-Malo sea pool and the ruffled sea beyond, between the order of its geometric walls and the random rocky outcrops behind them.
(5) So that’s what I did: I decided that this would no longer be just a rocky outcrop on the port of Funchal, it would be my island, about the size of a one-bedroom house.
(6) His destination was the large outcrop of copper-bearing strata in the mountains above the village of Mes Aynak.
(7) This rocky outcrop sees hundreds of visitors daily, in good weather and bad, and thousands of swimmers on Christmas Day.
(8) Stretching north of Punta del Este, the landscape and atmosphere of the Uruguayan coast changes swiftly and dramatically - huge swathes of empty beach, boutique hideaways on isolated outcrops, candlelit hippie towns and tiny fishing villages.
(9) It is one of the rocky outcrops overlooking the bucolic valley of Qunu, where South Africa's first black president grew up and which, at 93, he still calls home.
(10) At its margin abutting the central fibrous body the atrioventricular (A-V) node exhibited numerous fronds and outcroppings, some forming loop connections from one part of A-V node to another.
(11) The three-mile loop overlooks the blue-tinged fossil-rich outcrop where many of John Day’s fossils have been found.
(12) But new research about to be published suggests that over the decades they may have been chipping away at the wrong rocky outcrop on the Preseli Hills in Pembrokeshire .
(13) Plans to build the UK's first geothermal plant that would use heat from granite outcrops beneath the Earth's surface to power a small town were unveiled today.
(14) They made it clear that these “motherfucker refugees” were not welcome on the charmless rocky outcrop.
(15) In north-east Corsica, asbestos outcrops are a source of environmental pollution, as assessed by airborne concentrations of chrysotile and tremolite that are significantly higher in the north-east than the north-west.
(16) Known in China as the Diaoyu Islands, this small collection of islets and rocky outcroppings in the East China Sea has lain outside of direct Chinese control since 1895.
(17) Parking is near the elegiac ruins of Tintern Abbey, and from there one embarks upon a digestible but heart thumping climb up to the Devil's Pulpit, a rocky outcrop, affording fantastic views, where the evil doer himself supposedly used to preach temptation to the industrious monks scurrying below.
(18) Dunvegan Castle and Gardens Clinging to a rocky outcrop, Dunvegan Castle has been the MacLeod stronghold for eight centuries.
(19) On the other side, the vegetation opened up again and the slope led down towards a small outcrop wreathed with pine trees.
(20) Calm and controlled, he stood on an outcrop barely 7m from where I was standing, his gaze locked on the swimmers.