| bos | <zoology> 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. Origin: L, ox, cow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| boscage | 1. A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape. 2. Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood. Origin: OF. Boscage grove, F. Bocage, fr. LL. Boscus, buscus, thicket, wood. See 1st Bush. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bosch yaws | A form of New World cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania braziliensis guyanensis in the Amazon delta; a small proportion of cases are said to metastasize to the nasal mucosa with espundia-like involvement. Synonym: bosch yaws, bush yaws, forest yaws. (05 Mar 2000) |
| boshbok | <zoology> A kind of antelope. See Bush buck. Origin: D. Bosch wood + bok buck. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| boshvark | <zoology> The bush hog. See Bush, a thicket. Origin: D. Bosch wood + varken pig. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Bosin's disease | <neurology> Chronic progressive illness seen in children a few years after measles infection and involving demyelination of the cerebral cortex. Virus apparently persists in brain cells: usually considered a slow virus disease. (18 Nov 1997) |
| bosk | A thicket; a small wood. "Through bosk and dell." See: Bosket. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| boskage | Same as Boscage. "Thridding the somber boskage of the wood." (Tennyson) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bosnia-herzegovina | A country of eastern europe, formerly the province of bosnia in yugoslavia, uniting with the province of herzegovina to form the republic of bosnia and herzegovina in 1946. It was created 7 april 1992 as a result of the division of yugoslavia and recognised by the united states as an independent state. Bosnia takes is name from the river bosna, in turn from the indoeuropean root bhog, "current"; herzegovina is from the serbian herceg (duke) + -ov (the possessive) + -ina (country or territory). (12 Dec 1998) |
| bosom | 1. To inclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish. "Bosom up my counsel, You'll find it wholesome." (Shak) 2. To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom. "To happy convents bosomed deep in vines." (Pope) Origin: Bosomed; Bosoming. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bosquet | <botany> A grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed. Origin: F. Bosquet a little wood, dim. Fr. LL. Boscus. See Boscage, and cf. Bouquet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| boss | To ornament with bosses; to stud. Origin: OE. Bocen, fr. OF. Bocier. See the preceding word. Origin: OE. Boce, bose, boche, OF. Boce, boche, bosse, F. Bosse, of G. Origin; cf. OHG. Bozo tuft, bunch, OHG. Bozan, MHG. Bozen, to beat. See Beat, and cf. Botch a swelling. 1. Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood. 2. A protuberant ornament on any work, either of different material from that of the work or of the same, as upon a buckler or bridle; a stud; a knob; the central projection of a shield. See Umbilicus. 3. A projecting ornament placed at the intersection of the ribs of ceilings, whether vaulted or flat, and in other situations. 4. [Cf. D. Bus box, Dan. Bosse] A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder. 5. <mechanics> The enlarged part of a shaft, on which a wheel is keyed, or at the end, where it is coupled to another. A swage or die used for shaping metals. 6. A head or reservoir of water. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bosselated | Marked by numerous bosses or rounded protuberances. Origin: Fr. Bosseler, to emboss (05 Mar 2000) |
| bosselation | 1. A boss. 2. A condition in which one or more bosses, or rounded protuberances, are present. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bosset | <zoology> A rudimental antler of a young male of the red deer. Origin: Cf. Boss a stud. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |