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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.

Having, or resembling, bosom; kept in the bosom; hidden.

An appliance resembling a small boot furnished with straps, buckles, etc., used to correct or prevent distortions in the lower extremities of children. Dunglison.

Resembling an ox in form; ox-shaped. [R.]

of or pertaining to the genus Bos; relating to, or resembling, the ox or cow; oxlike; as, the bovine genus; a bovine antelope.

An ornamental knot, with projecting lops, formed by doubling a ribbon or string.

In a flying machine, a tail or rudder, usually fixed, resembling a box kite.

Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (Buxus). [R.] The faded hue of sapless boxen leaves. Dryden.

Resembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile. A boyish, odd conceit. Baillie.

Of the nature of an arm; resembling an arm.

A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.

A system of printing or writing for the blind in which the characters are represented by tangible points or dots. It was invented by Louis Braille, a French teacher of the blind.

The brambling or bramble finch.

Pertaining to, resembling, or full of, brambles. "In brambly wildernesses." Tennyson.

Resembling, or of the nature of, brash, or broken fragments; broken; crumbly.

A spotted European fish of the genus Lucioperca, resembling a perch.

Related to, or resembling, the cabbage, or plants of the Cabbage family.

Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass.

Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill. Mountains on whose barren breast The laboring clouds do often rest. Milton.

Consisting of angular fragments cemented together; resembling breccia in appearance. The brecciated appearance of many specimens [of meteorites]. H. A. Newton.