Obs. Var. of BOSSELL, the ‘print’ of a mazer or drinking-bowl.
c. 1530. in Gutch, Coll. Cur., II. 314. The mending of a Bason … and the makyng of thamell and the bussell withe my Lordis Armes.
1625. in Rymer Fœdera, XVIII. 236. The bason enamelled about the busshell and brymme.
