Basset
a game at cards, played somewhat similar to the modern faro.
It is of Venetian invention, and was formerly much played in France. BASSE-TERRE (bäs-tār), (French, lowland), the name of the capitals of St.
Christopher island, British West Indies (pop. about 9,000), and of Guadeloupe, the French West Indian island (pop. about 8,000).
BASSET-HORN, a musical instrument, the tenor of the clarionet family, having more than three octaves in its compass, extending upward from F below the bass stave. Unlike the clarionet it has a bell-mouth of metal. an