basined

1. 1
   adjective

   Having a basin or basins, especially when a word in front names the kind of basin.

   The hotel bathroom had a wide-basined sink and a deep claw-foot tub.

   Seen from above, the crown of the fossil molar is deeply basined.

   Note

   Usually the second half of a compound whose first half describes the basin: Lovecraft's silver-basined fountains, a large-basined sink, Beckett's broad-basined persons in Watt. Before a noun the compound takes a hyphen. Standing alone, the word has a technical life in descriptions of fossil teeth, where part of a molar crown either is or is not basined, hollowed like a bowl.

2. 2
   adjective

   Enclosed within a basin.

   From the ridge we looked down on the basined lake, ringed by pine-covered slopes.

   Basined waters like these warm quickly once summer arrives.

3. 3
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of basin.

   The valley floor basined gently around the spring, holding a shallow pool after every rain.

   The crew had basined the low ground behind the dam to catch the spring runoff.

   Note

   The verb behind this form has an active and a passive face. Used without an object, the past tense describes ground taking a basin's shape (the floor basined around the spring); as a passive participle it describes something sheltered in a hollow (villages basined among mountains). Placed before a noun, the participle passes into the "enclosed in a basin" adjective.

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