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The horse tick or forest fly (Hippobosca).

To press closely within the arms; to clasp to the bosom; to embrace. "And huggen me in his arms." Shak.

One of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. See Illust. of Hydroidea.

With reference to space or place; as, he lives in Boston; he traveled in Italy; castles in the air. The babe lying in a manger. Luke ii. 16. Thy sun sets weeping in the lowly west. Shak. Situated in the forty-first degree of latitude. Gibbon. Matter for censure in every page. Macaulay.

to enlarge; as, to inflate a bladder; to inflate the lungs. When passion's tumults in the bosom rise, Inflate the features, and enrage the eyes. J. Scott of Amwell.

on; curiosity to learn what is unknown; esp., uncontrolled and impertinent curiosity. Mr. Boswell, whose inquisitiveness is seconded by great activity, scrambled in at a high window. Johnson. Curiosity in children nature has provided, to remove that ignorance they were born with; which, without this busy inquisitivenes…

To link together; to unite closely or firmly, as by a chain. Two bosoms interchained with an oath. Shak.

Within. [Obs.] This purse hath she inwith her bosom hid. Chaucer.

Originally, a kind of ruffle worn by men on the bosom of the shirt.

, golden yellow, and the top of the head and upper part of the back brown. Called also proboscis monkey. [Written also kaha.]

A contorted knot in wood; a crossgrained protuberance; a nodule; a boss or projection.

Of or pertaining to the island anciently called Lesbos, now Mitylene, in the Grecian Archipelago.

any rib which does not spring from the impost and is not a ridge rib, but passes from one boss or intersection of the principal ribs to another.

l process, or front edge, of the labium of insects. It sometimes serves as a tongue or proboscis, as in bees. [See Illust. under Labium, and Hymenoptera.]

Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as, the elephant's lithe proboscis. Milton.

Abiding place; harbor; cover. Fair bosom . . . the lodging of delight. Spenser. Lodging house, a house where lodgings are provided and let. -- Lodging room, a room in which a person lodges, esp. a hired room.

A drake; the male of Anas boschas.

The proboscis of a jellyfish; -- called also hypostoma. See Illust. of Hydromedusa.

d. Tusser. Marrow squash (Bot.), a name given to several varieties of squash, esp. to the Boston marrow, an ovoid fruit, pointed at both ends, and with reddish yellow flesh, and to the vegetable marrow, a variety of an ovoid form, and having a soft texture and fine grain resembling marrow. -- Spinal marrow. (Anat.) Se…

stle. (a) (Bot.) A genus of cactaceous plants (Melocactus) having a fleshy and usually globose stem with the surface divided into spiny longitudinal ridges, and bearing at the top a prickly and woolly crown in which the small pink flowers are half concealed. M. communis, from the West Indies, is often cultivated, and s…