A game at cards, said to have been invented at Venice, by a nobleman, who was banished for the invention. The game being introduced into France by the Venetian embassador, Justiniani, in 1674, it was prohibited by severe edicts.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
Inclined upward; as, the basset edge of strata.
1. A game at cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have been invented at Venice.
2. The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop.
To inclined upward so as to appear at the surface; to crop out; as, a vein of coal bassets.
Basset hound
Webster's Dictionary 1913
A small kind of hound with a long body and short legs, used as an earth dog.
The upward direction of a vein in a coal mine.
Having a direction upwards.
The upward direction of a vein in a mine; the emergence of a stratum at the surface.
Visibility Roget’s Thesaurus §446
N. visibility, perceptibility, conspicuousness, distinctness, conspicuity, conspicuousness, appearance, bassetting, exposure, manifestation, ocular proof, ocular evidence, ocular demonstration, field of view, periscopism
V. be become visible, appear, open to the view, meet the eye, catch the eye, basset, present itself, show manifest itself, produce itself, discover itself, reveal itself, expose itself, betray itself, stand forth, stand out, materialize, show, arise, peep out, peer out, crop out, start up, spring up, show up, turn up, crop up, glimmer, loom, glare, burst forth, burst upon the view, burst upon the sight, heave in sight, come in sight, come into view, come out, come forth, come forward, see the light of day, break through the clouds, make its appearance, show its face, appear to one's eyes, come upon the stage, float before the eyes, speak for itself, attract the attention, reappear, live in a glass house, expose to view
Adj. visible, perceptible, perceivable, discernible, apparent, in view, in full view, in sight, exposed to view, en evidence, unclouded, unobscured, in the foreground, obvious, plain, clear, distinct, definite, well defined, well marked, in focus, recognizable, palpable, autoptical, glaring, staring, conspicuous, stereoscopic, in bold, in strong relief, periscopic, panoramic, before one's eyes, under one's eyes, before one, vue d'oeil, in one's eye, oculis subjecta fidelibus
Adv. visibly, in sight of, before one's eyes, veluti in speculum
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