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e electro-motive force in an alternating-current circuit; -- so called because used to "boost", or raise, the pressure in the circuit.

Stocking hose, or spatterdashes, in lieu of boots. Shak.

A double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc.

A genus of ruminant quadrupeds, including the wild and domestic cattle, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns, and a large fold of skin hanging from the neck.

A drink, used in the East. See Boza.

A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.

Figure; outline; show. [Obs.]

A kind of antelope. See Bush buck.

The bush hog. See under Bush, a thicket.

; pl. Bosjesmans. [D. boschjesman.]

A thicket; a small wood. "Through bosk and dell." Sir W. Scott.

Same as Boscage. Thridding the somber boskage of the wood. Tennyson.

A grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed.

Boscage; also, the state or quality of being bosky.

Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets. Milton.

ween the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them. You must prepare your bosom for his knife. Shak.

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

Characterized by recesses or sheltered hollows.

See Boatswain. [Obs.] Dryden.

Of or pertaining to the Thracian or the Cimmerian Bosporus. The Alans forced the Bosporian kings to pay them tribute and exterminated the Taurians. Tooke.