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A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a seas; as, the Bosporus (formerly the Thracian Bosporus) or Strait of Constantinople, between the Black Sea and Sea of Marmora; the Cimmerian Bosporus, between the Black Sea and Sea of Azof. [Written also Bosphorus.]

See Bosket.

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.

ed 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.

A Brazilian tribe of Indians, noted for their use of poisons; - - also called Aymborés.

Of the racemose or acropetal type of inflorescence. Gray.

A cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, as Delphinus Tursio and Lagenorhyncus leucopleurus, of Europe.

Having the nose bottleshaped, or large at the end. Dickens.

A branchiostegal ray. See Illustration of Branchial arches in Appendix.

The branchiostegal membrane. See Illustration in Appendix.

Branchiostegal.

The lancelet. See Amphioxus.