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The osprey. [R.]

A charnel house; an ossuary. Walpole.

A place where the bones of the dead are deposited; a charnel house. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river. Dryden. To come across, to come upon or meet incidentally. Freeman. -- To go across the country, to go by a direct course across a region without following the roads.

Without tongue; tongueless.

A web-footed bird, of the genus Diomedea, of which there are several species. They are the largest of sea birds, capable of long- continued flight, and are often seen at great distances from the land. They are found chiefly in the southern hemisphere.

Controlled by an evil spirit or by evil passions; wild. [Colloq.]

A peculiar marine worm. See Enteropneusta, and Tornaria.

To put in violent motion; to agitate; to disturb; to toss. "My betossed soul." Shak.

ith their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom.

Without blossoms.

Full of blossoms; flowery.

Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood.

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.

sa, and especially the A. officinalis, sometimes called alkanet; oxtongue. Small wild bugloss, the Asperugo procumbens and the Lycopsis arvensis. -- Viper's bugloss, a species of Echium.

That which blasts a blossom as a canker does. [Obs.] O me! you juggler! you canker blossom! You thief of Love! Shak.