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bossed, ppl. a.|bɒst|
Also 6–7 bost(e.
[f. boss n.1 and v.1]
1. Made to swell out or project, rounded out.
1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg., [The thigh bone] is receyued in the pyt of the hukcle bone and is som⁓what bossed outwarde. 1578Banister Hist. Man i. 35 Where the Patel is thickest, and bossed forth like the middest of a buckler. 1615Crooke Body of Man 81 The arteries..are straight and euen without any bossed knottes at all. 1644J. Carter Nail & Wheel (1647) 21 They [nails] have great and glorious bossed and gilded heads.
2. Raised or beaten in relief, embossed; also, portrayed in relief.
1536in Antiq. Sarisb. (1771) 195 Two pair of Censers, silver and gilt, of bossed work. 1675Lond. Gaz. No. 1002/4 Stoln out of Westminster Abbey..Two large Silver Candle⁓sticks, Boss'd and Gilt. 1833Tennyson Poems 83 With chalices of curious wine..And bossèd salvers. 1850Blackie æschylus II. 189 Upon his shield he bears..a woman Leading with sober pace an armed man All bossed in gold.
3. Furnished with bosses or projecting ornaments.
1611Bp. Hall Serm. v. 55 Lucian compares his Grecians, to a fair, gilt, bossed book. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. vii. 424 One of His Play-Fellows proffered Him a bossed-plated Bible to stand upon. 1705Hearne Diary (1885) I. 120 [A book] covered with velvet and boss'd with Silver. 1868Morris Earthly Par. II. 131 Leaping up, he took The reins in hand and the bossed leather shook.
b. Studded, ornamented.
1586Webbe Eng. Poetrie (Arb.) 82 Weedes meete for a princely mayden, Boste with Ermines white. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. ii. i. 355 Fine Linnen, Turky cushions bost with pearle. a1627Middleton Black Bk. Wks. V. 567 Hangers, all bost with pillars of gold. |