Part 1296

<hw>Boss</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Bossed</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Bossing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>bocen</ets>, fr. OF. <ets>bocier</ets>. See the preceding word.]</ety> <def>To ornament with bosses; to stud.</def>

<h1>Boss</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Boss</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[D. <ets>baas</ets> master.]</ety> <def>A master workman or superintendent; a director or manager; a political dictator.</def> <mark>[Slang, U. S.]</mark>

<h1>Bossage</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Boss"age</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>bossage</ets>, fr. <ets>bosse</ets>. See <er>Boss</er> a stud.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>A stone in a building, left rough and projecting, to be afterward carved into shape.</def>

<i>Gwilt.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>Rustic work, consisting of stones which seem to advance beyond the level of the building, by reason of indentures or channels left in the joinings.</def>

<i>Gwilt.</i>

<h1>Bossed</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Bossed</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Embossed; also, bossy.</def>

<h1>Bosset</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Bos"set</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <er>Boss</er> a stud.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A rudimental antler of a young male of the red deer.</def>

<h1>Bossism</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Boss"ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The rule or practices of bosses, esp. political bosses.</def> <mark>[Slang, U. S.]</mark>

<h1>Bossy</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Boss"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Ornamented with bosses; studded.</def>

<h1>Bossy</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Bos"sy</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Dim. fr. Prov. E. <ets>boss</ets> in <ets>boss-calf</ets>, <ets>buss-calf</ets>, for <ets>boose-calf</ets>, prop., a calf kept in the stall. See 1st <er>Boose</er>.]</ety> <def>A cow or calf; -- familiarly so called.</def> <mark>[U. S.]</mark>

<h1>Boston</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Bos"ton</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A game at cards, played 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.</def>

<h1>Boswellian</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Bos*well"i*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson.</def>

<h1>Boswellism</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Bos"well*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The style of Boswell.</def>

<h1>Bot</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw>Bot</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>See <er>Bots</er>.</def>

<h1>Botanic, Botanical</h1> <Xpage=169>

<hw><hw>Bo*tan"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Bo*tan"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>botanique</ets>. See <er>Botany</er>.]</ety> <def>Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; <as>as, a <ex>botanical</ex> system, arrangement, textbook, expedition</as>.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Botan"ic*al*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>