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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.

tween 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.

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.