BASANITE

An Illustrated Encyclopaedic Medical Dictionary · 1891 · p. 3

n. Ba?s‘a%n-it. Gr., Bacavirns (from Bacavos [see Basanos]). Lat., basanites. Fr., basamite. Ger., Basanit, Probirstein. The touchstone (lapis lydius); a variety of black jasper formerly used for testing the Tea: old and silver and for making mortars and whetstones. [A, 5 L, 56.