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(1):

(n.) A game at cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have been invented at Venice.

(2):

(a.) Inclined upward; as, the basset edge of strata.

(3):

(n.) The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop.

(4):

(v. i.) To inclined upward so as to appear at the surface; to crop out; as, a vein of coal bassets.