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A stone in a building, left rough and projecting, to be afterward carved into shape. Gwilt.

Embossed; also, bossy.

A rudimental antler of a young male of the red deer.

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

Ornamented with bosses; studded.

yed 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.

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.

Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson.

The style of Boswell.

Bulbous.

A white crystalline substance, C9H6N.OH, of acid properties derived from one of the amido cinnamic acids.

Consisting of corymbs, or resembling them in form. [Written also corymbous.]

In corymbs.

A crystalline vari ety of fruit sugar obtained from dambonite.

To debauch. [Obs.] "A deboshed lady." Beau. & Fl.

Debauchment. [Obs.]

Converting forest land into cleared or arable land; removal of a forest. Sir W. Scott.

To separate from the bosom. [R.] Young.

To take into, or place in, the bosom; to cherish; to foster. Glad to embosom his affection. Spenser.

To arise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.