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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.

See Bots.

Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition. -- Botan"ic*al*ly, adv. Botanic garden, a garden devoted to the culture of plants collected for the purpose of illustrating the science of botany. -- Botanic physician, a physician whose medicines c…

One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.

To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants.

One who botanizes.

A botanist. [Obs.]

The science of botany. [Obs.] Bailey.

An ancient species of divination by means of plants, esp. sage and fig leaves.

A book which treats of the science of botany.

A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770.

A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink.

A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. [Obs. or Dial.] Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.

In a clumsy manner.

One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler. Shak.

Bungling; awkward. [R.]