Noun : We need another basin of water to dilute the mixture. ,a yacht basin. ,river basin. From Dictionary.com.
In the middle was the caldron of the torrent, called the “Scarfe,” with the sheer trap-rock, which is green in the sunlight, like black night flung around it, while a snowy wreath of mist (like foam exhaling) circled round the basined steep, or hovered over the chasm. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Anerley] Reference
It's a ample cylinder-shaped conduit basined with a bill attracter. From Wordnik.com. [Blogpulse Top Links] Reference
In its slow movement the neve field broadly scours its bed to a flat or basined floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
Their characteristic form is that of a long, deep, narrow bay with steep rock walls and basined floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
Well back under this natural shelter, basined in the hollowed rock, a blessed pool of fair water lay unwrinkled by even a flutter of breeze. From Wordnik.com. [An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier] Reference
Their floors are often basined and hold lakelets whose deep and quiet waters reflect the sheltering ramparts of rugged rock which tower far above them. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
Passing the stone-basined fountain in the middle of the park he stopped, jerked the pistol from his pocket, spilled the cartridges from its magazine, and stooped to grope for a loose stone in the walk-border. From Wordnik.com. [The Price] Reference
In smoke-coloured folds, closely matching the lowering dim canopy of vapour brooding overhead, the prairie spread about her, deepening to a basined valley in the middle distances, sweeping to a rise beyond, so that the edges of the basin looked down upon the town. From Wordnik.com. [The Dop Doctor] Reference
Within the marble-basined bath. From Wordnik.com. [Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses] Reference
Reaches between the steps are often basined. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
The short, uneasy heave of waters in among the kelpy rocks, flowing from no swell or furrow on the misty glass of sea, but like a pulse of discontent, and longing to go further; after the turn, the little rattle of invaded pebbles, the lithe relapse and soft, shampooing lambency of oarweed, then the lavered boulders pouring gritty runnels back again, and every basined outlet wavering toward another inlet; these, and every phase of each innumerable to-and-fro, made or met their impress in her fluctuating misery. From Wordnik.com. [Frida, or, The Lover's Leap, A Legend Of The West Country From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore] Reference
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