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Basan   Listen
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Basan  n.  Same as Basil, a sheepskin.






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"Basan" Quotes from Famous Books



... those days by reason of a colic that did extraordinarily torment him, taken with eating a sergeant's soul fried for his breakfast. And therefore you may believe that which Nicholas de Lyra saith upon that place of the Psalter where it is written, Et Og Regem Basan, that the said Og, being yet little, was so strong and robustious, that they were fain to bind him with chains of iron in his cradle. Thus continued Pantagruel for a while very calm and quiet, for he was not able so easily ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais

... little squawk, and put his fingers in his ears; but speedily drew them out and shouted angrily, and as loudly, "you great roaring, blaspheming bull of Basan, hold your ...
— The Cloister and the Hearth • Charles Reade



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