basan, basen

[In Fr. basane; Low Lat. basanium, bazan, bazana, bazanna, bazenna.] The skin of a sheep tanned. [BASIL (2).] băs'-an-ite, s . [Lat. basanites; Gr. βασαν ίτης (basanites) = a touchstone, from βάσανος (basanos) = a touchstone.] A mineral, called also Lydian Stone. It is placed by Dana as one of his Crypto-crystalline varieties of Quartz. It is a velvet black siliceous or flinty jasper. If an alloyed metal be rubbed acro it, the colour left behind will indicate the nature and the depth of the alloy; hence arises the name of Touchstone. [JASPER, QUARTZ.] băs'-a-nō-měl-ane, băs-a-nō-měl-ạn, 8. [Gr. βάσανος (basanos) = a touchstone, and μέλας ( melas ) = black.] A mineral, according to the British Museum Catalogue the same as Ilmenite. Dana makes it his seventh variety of Men acc a nite, ranking Ilmenite as the third, and Men acc a nite proper as the fourth. Bas a no me lane is a titaniferous hæmatite.