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Formed or covered with bosses or raised figures.

One who embosses.

The act of forming bosses or raised figures, or the state of being so formed.

Humped; protuberant; -- said of a surface which presents one or more large elevations. Brande & C.

The state of being gibbous or gibbose; gibbousness.

The quality of being glebous. [R.]

Having a rounded form resembling that of a globe; globular, or nearly so; spherical. Milton.

In a globular manner; globularly.

Sphericity. Ray.

Abounding with herbs. "Fields poetically called herbose." Byrom.

A genus of dipterous insects including the horsefly or horse tick. -- Hip`po*bos"can, a.

btained from certain derivatives of cinnamic acid and closely related to quinoline and carbostyril.

To conceal, as in bushes; to hide. [Obs.] Shelton.

To hold in the bosom; to cherish in the heart or affection; to embosom.

See Emboss.

Embossed or raised work. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Nonsense; stuff; also, fashion; style. [Slang]

An order of Rhizopoda, in which the pseudopodia are thick and irregular in form, as in the Amoeba.

Of or pertaining to the loins and sacrum; as, the lumbosacral nerve, a branch of one of the lumber nerves which passes over the sacrum.

Proceeding from disease; morbid; unhealthy. Morbose tumors and excrescences of plants. Ray.