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Basin, Basing, Bason, n. Also: basine, -yn(e, -ynne, -en, -ein, bassin(e, -yn(e, -en(e, baisine, -ein, baissin(e, -ein; basyng, baseing, bassing, -yng, baising, baissing, bessing; basson, baissone, -oune, [ME. basin, basyn, bacin(e, bacyn(e, bascin (c 1220), OF. bacin (F. bassin); also ME. basson, e.m.E. bason.] A basin; a basinful.(a) a1400 Leg. S. xxii. 292.
A bassyne … of vatir 1421 Douglas Chart. 57.
A basyne and a lawer of siluer 1457 Peebles B. Rec. 119.
A bassyn and a lauar 1479 Acta Aud. 87/2.
A bassin & ane ewar of siluer ouergilt a1500 Prestis Peblis 206.
His handis he wosche in a siluer basyn 1507 Dunferm. B. Rec. 163.
A treyn bassyne of vj quartis 1529 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV. 230.
Ane wesching towell … with basyne and laware of siluir 1549 Compl. 129/24.
Gif ane cirurgyen vald drau part of there blude in ane bassyn Ib. 145/9.
To vasche ther handis … in the bassine 1562-3 Winȝet I. 84/5.
In ony prophane basin [MS. baisine] 1560 Rolland Seven S. 322/32.
His father come with ane siluer basine [: to dine] 1615 Haddington Mem. II. 289.
Ane siluer baissin and ane lawer 1648 Linlithgow Pal. 332.
Ane tine bassine(b) 14.. Acts I. 44/2.
A basing, a lawar 1472 Treas. Acc. I. 37.
To by ij bassingis for hir chalmire 1488 Ib. 83.
Twa grete bassingis ouregilt 1489 Ib. 111.
For a bassing to wessche the kingis feyt in a1500 Seven S. 2585.
Ȝe sall me the basyng hald 1531 Bell. Boece I. 232.
Hergest dotat this kirk with cowpis, challicis, basingis, lawaris 1562 Will Agnes Betoun 225.
Twa bassings of tree 1574 Cart. S. Nich. Aberd. 384.
The standart that holdis the bassing on the pulpett 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 103.
The basing and the lawar [borne] be the lord Ross 1587-99 Hume vii. 43; Ib. 128.
Lawers in rank and siluer baissings shine 1605 Ellon Presb. 16.
Clothes and bassing and tasses [for the sacrament](c) 1610 Hist. Kinloss A. p. xii.
Ane gilt bassen and lawer c 1614 Mun. Univ. Glasg. III. 523.
Ane brasen basein 1648 15th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. ix. 43.
A silver baissein c1650 Spalding I. 34.
Ane bassein all of gold, estimat to fyve thousand merkis 1657 Montgomery Mem. 320.
Ane gilt silver bassen with ane laiver(d) 1612 Bk. Rates 288.
Bassonis of latten 1617 Thanes of Cawdor 241.
Ane great silver baissone 1633 Stirlings of Keir 448.
Ane silver baisoune

b. In allusions to customs on certain days. (Cf. Basin-silver.) 1489 Treas. Acc. I. 103.
To George of Dowglas, for the Kingis rawarde on Vphaly da, to his basing, vj demys 1532 Ib. VI. 39.
For the doune putting of thare bassyngis at New Ȝear Daye, Uphalymes and Pasche 1581–2 Elgin Rec. I. 164.
Ihone Annand … and Villiam Gibson … becom souerteis for Marjory Cuming … that scho in na times to cum sall ring bessingis … vpon Vphelly ewin 1593 Roxburghe MSS. 41.
[The act] dischairging alsoe pasche playis, tymmer wychtis, banefyris, and ringing of baisingis

c. Attrib. with claith, pan, towel. 1568 Edinb. Test. I. 148 b.
Ane basing towall of dornik Ib. 169.
Ane basing claith sewit with blew threid 1596 Ib. XXIX. 320 b.
Thre bassene paneis 1598 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 236.
Aucht basing claithis to cover the breid 1605 Edinb. Test. XL. 269.
Ane basing towall of lynning 1648 Ib. LXIV. 82.
Certane linings consisting of scheitts, boord cloaths, ... mouth cloaths, baissing cloaths, and vtheris