*bos*

‖n. [ Ar. būza, Pers. būzah: cf. F. bosan. ] A drink, used in the East. See Boza. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A greenish-yellow variety of pear. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OF. boscage grove, F. bocage, fr. LL. boscus, buscus, thicket, wood. See 1st Bush. ] 1. A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (O. Eng. Law) Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. [ From physicists S. N. Bose, and Albert Einstein. ] (Physics) A law of statistical mechanics which is obeyed by a system of particles when interchange of two particles does not change the wave function. Contrasted to Fermi-Dirac statistics. See also boson. [ PJC ]

prop. n. A genus of Indian antelopes; the nilgais.
Syn. -- genus Boselaphus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. G. posse joke, trifle; It. bozzo a rough stone, bozzetto a rough sketch, s-bozzo a rough draught, sketch. ] Figure; outline; show. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Turk. ] Empty talk; contemptible nonsense; trash; humbug. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Boshes [ Cf. G. böschung a slope. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. One of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ D. bosch wood + bok buck. ] (Zool.) A kind of antelope. See Bush buck. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ D. bosch wood + varken pig. ] (Zool.) The bush hog. See under Bush, a thicket. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Bosjesmans. [ D. boschjesman. ] See Bushman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Bosket. ] A thicket; a small wood. “Through bosk and dell.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Boscage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thridding the somber boskage of the wood. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Boscage; also, the state or quality of being bosky. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Bushy. ] 1. Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Caused by boscage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Darkened over by long bosky shadows. H. James. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A country in the Balkan penninsula of southeastern Europe, formerly a part of Yugoslavia.
Syn. -- Bosnia and Herzegovina. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. of or pertaining to Bosnia-Herzegovina. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ AS. bōsm; akin to D. bozem, Fries. bōsm, OHG. puosum, G. busen, and prob. E. bough. ] 1. The breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them. [ 1913 Webster ]

You must prepare your bosom for his knife. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: The breasts of a woman; as, an ample bosom. [ PJC ]

3. The breast, considered as the seat of the passions, affections, and operations of the mind; consciousness; secret thoughts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tut, I am in their bosoms, and I know
Wherefore they do it. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom. Job xxxi. 33. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Embrace; loving or affectionate inclosure; fold. [ 1913 Webster ]

Within the bosom of that church. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior; as, the bosom of the earth. “The bosom of the ocean.” Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The part of the dress worn upon the breast; an article, or a portion of an article, of dress to be worn upon the breast; as, the bosom of a shirt; a linen bosom. [ 1913 Webster ]

He put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow. Ex. iv. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Inclination; desire. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A depression round the eye of a millstone. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to the bosom. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Intimate; confidential; familiar; trusted; cherished; beloved; as, a bosom friend. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bosomed p. pr. & vb. n. Bosoming. ] 1. To inclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bosom up my counsel,
You'll find it wholesome. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom. [ 1913 Webster ]

To happy convents bosomed deep in vines. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having, or resembling, bosom; kept in the bosom; hidden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Combining form ] Having such a bosom; as, a big-bosomed woman. [ PJC ]

a. 1. Characterized by recesses or sheltered hollows. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having a large bosom; -- of a woman. [ PJC ]

n. [ From S. N. Bose, an Indian physicist. ] (Physics) A fundamental particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistical rules, but not the Pauli exclusion principle; the spin value of a boson is always an integer. Examples of bosons are alpha particles, photons, and those nuclei which have an even mass number. [ PJC ]

n. See Boatswain. [ Obs. ] [ Also spelled bosun. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Bosporus, G. Bo`sporos, lit., ox-ford, the ox's or heifer's ford, on account of Io's passage here as a heifer; fr. boy^s ox, heifer + po`ros ford. ] Of or pertaining to the Thracian or the Cimmerian Bosporus. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Alans forced the Bosporian kings to pay them tribute and exterminated the Taurians. Tooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a seas; as, the Bosporus (formerly the Thracian Bosporus) or Strait of Constantinople, between the Black Sea and Sea of Marmora; the Cimmerian Bosporus, between the Black Sea and Sea of Azof. [ Written also Bosphorus. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. bosquet a little wood, dim. fr. LL. boscus. See Boscage, and cf. Bouquet. ] (Gardening) A grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Bosket. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Bosses [ OE. boce, bose, boche, OF. boce, boche, bosse, F. bosse, of G. origin; cf. OHG. bōzo tuft, bunch, OHG. bōzan, MHG. bôzen, to beat. See Beat, and cf. Botch a swelling. ] 1. Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A protuberant ornament on any work, either of different material from that of the work or of the same, as upon a buckler or bridle; a stud; a knob; the central projection of a shield. See Umbilicus. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Arch.) A projecting ornament placed at the intersection of the ribs of ceilings, whether vaulted or flat, and in other situations. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. [ Cf. D. bus box, Dan. bösse. ] A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder. Gwilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Mech.) (a) The enlarged part of a shaft, on which a wheel is keyed, or at the end, where it is coupled to another. (b) A swage or die used for shaping metals. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A head or reservoir of water. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bossed p. pr. & vb. n. Bossing. ] [ OE. bocen, fr. OF. bocier. See the preceding word. ] To ornament with bosses; to stud. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. baas master. ] A master workman or superintendent; a director or manager; a political dictator. [ Slang, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bossage, fr. bosse. See Boss a stud. ] 1. (Arch.) A stone in a building, left rough and projecting, to be afterward carved into shape. Gwilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) Rustic work, consisting of stones which seem to advance beyond the level of the building, by reason of indentures or channels left in the joinings. Gwilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Embossed; also, bossy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Boss a stud. ] (Zool.) A rudimental antler of a young male of the red deer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The rule or practices of bosses, esp. political bosses. [ Slang, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ornamented with bosses; studded. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. fr. Prov. E. boss in boss-calf, buss-calf, for boose-calf, prop., a calf kept in the stall. See 1st Boose. ] A cow or calf; -- familiarly so called. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL.; irreg. fr. Gr. &unr_; a curl. ] (Bot.) A form of cymose inflorescence with all the flowers on one side of the rachis, usually causing it to curl; -- called also a uniparous helicoid cyme. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen; a contraction of boatswain. [ Also spelled bo'sun. ]
Syn. -- boatswain, bos'n, bo's'n, bo'sun, boson. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a genus of incense-yielding trees of North Africa and India.
Syn. -- genus Boswellia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Relating to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson's biographer, James Boswell, whose hero worship made his narrative a faithful but often uncritical record of details. -- Bos"well*ize v. i. & t. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. The style of Boswell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bulbous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Carbon + styrene. ] A white crystalline substance, C9H6N.OH, of acid properties derived from one of the amido cinnamic acids. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the blockage of the coronary artery of the heart by a thrombus. [ PJC ]

a. (Bot.) Consisting of corymbs, or resembling them in form. [ Written also corymbous. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In corymbs. [ 1913 Webster ]