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A slut; a hussy; a drazel. [Obs.] Warner.

Formed or covered with bosses or raised figures.

One who embosses.

One who copies a writing in large, fair characters.

Covered with moss; mossed. Keats.

Boneless. "Exosseous animals. " Sir T. Browne.

Holding or held formerly in possession. [Obs.]

See Fossa. Fosse road. See Fosseway.

A faucet. [Obs.] Shak.

A little hollow; hence, a dimple.

ds constructed by the Romans in England and other parts of Europe; -- so called from the fosse or ditch on each side for keeping it dry.

A writer of glosses; a scholiast; a commentator. L. Addison.

In possibility; possible, although not yet in existence or come to pass; -- contradistinguished from in esse.

Situated between bones; as, an interosseous ligament.

in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught with the crosse and carried on it, or tossed from it, the object being to carry it or throw it through one of the goals placed at opposite ends of the field.

See Molossus.

Molasses. [Obs.]

See Posse comitatus. In posse. See In posse in the Vocabulary.

The power of the county, or the citizens who may be summoned by the sheriff to assist the authorities in suppressing a riot, or executing any legal precept which is forcibly opposed. Blackstone.

have in one's own keeping; to have and to hold. Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land. Jer. xxxii. 15. Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offense returning, to regain Love once possessed. Milton.