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Bos"cage (&?;), n. [OF. boscage grove, F. bocage, fr. LL. boscus, buscus, thicket, wood. See 1st Bush.] 1. A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.

2. (O. Eng. Law) Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood.

Bosh (&?;), n. [Cf. G. posse joke, trifle; It. bozzo a rough stone, bozzetto a rough sketch, s-bozzo a rough draught, sketch.] Figure; outline; show. [Obs.]

Bosh, n. [Turk.] Empty talk; contemptible nonsense; trash; humbug. [Colloq.]

Bosh, n.; pl. Boshes (&?;). [Cf. G. böschung a slope.]

1. One of the sloping sides of the lower part of a blast furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace.

2. pl. The lower part of a blast furnace, which slopes inward, or the widest space at the top of this part.

3. In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled.

||Bosh"bok (&?;), n. [D. bosch wood + bok buck.] (Zoöl.) A kind of antelope. See Bush buck.

||Bosh"vark (&?;), n. [D. bosch wood + varken pig.] (Zoöl.) The bush hog. See under Bush, a thicket.

||Bos"jes*man (&?;), n.; pl. Bosjesmans. [D. boschjesman.] See Bushman.

Bosk (&?;), n. [See Bosket.] A thicket; a small wood. "Through bosk and dell." Sir W. Scott.

Bos"kage (&?;), n. Same as Boscage.

Thridding the somber boskage of the wood. Tennyson.

{ Bos"ket, Bos"quet } (&?;), n. [F. bosquet a little wood, dim. fr. LL. boscus. See Boscage, and cf. Bouquet.] (Gardening) A grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed.

Bosk"i*ness (&?;), n. Boscage; also, the state or quality of being bosky.

Bosk"y (&?;), a. [Cf. Bushy.] 1. Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets. Milton.

2. Caused by boscage.

Darkened over by long bosky shadows. H. James.

Bos"om (bz"m), n. [AS. b&?;sm; akin to D. bozem, Fries. b&?;sm, OHG. puosum, G. busen, and prob. E. bough.] 1. The breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them.

You must prepare your bosom for his knife. Shak.

2. The breast, considered as the seat of the passions, affections, and operations of the mind; consciousness; secret thoughts.

Tut, I am in their bosoms, and I know Wherefore they do it. Shak.

If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom. Job xxxi. 33.

3. Embrace; loving or affectionate inclosure; fold.

Within the bosom of that church. Hooker.

4. Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior; as, the bosom of the earth. "The bosom of the ocean." Addison.

5. The part of the dress worn upon the breast; an article, or a portion of an article, of dress to be worn upon the breast; as, the bosom of a shirt; a linen bosom.