Vocabulary : Basilicok to Basion
Basilicok : The basilisk.Basilicon : An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance.
Basiling : of Basil
Basilisk : A fabulous serpent, or dragon. The ancients alleged that its hissing would drive away all other serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice. ;; A lizard of the genus Basiliscus, belonging to the family Iguanidae. ;; A large piece of ordnance, so called from its supposed resemblance to the serpent of that name, or from its size.
Basin : A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses. ;; The quantity contained in a basin. ;; 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. ;; A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay. ;; 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. ;; The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake. ;; 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.
