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单词 bossing
释义 I. bossing, vbl. n.1|ˈbɒsɪŋ|
Also 5 bocynge.
[f. boss v.1]
The action of the verb boss1: a. swelling; b. ornamenting with bosses; c. (meaning obscure: see quot. 1480).
c1440Promp. Parv. 41 Bocynge or strowtynge, turgor.1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ii. (1520) 17/1 Two other wayes he made in bossynge through out the lande, the one is called Fosse, and that other Fosse dyke.1583Grindal Will Wks. (1843) 459, I give..ten pounds towards the clasping, bossing, and chaining of the same [books].
d. In ceramics, the process of smoothing the surface of colour applied to pottery over a coating of boiled oil; also, the coating of oil used for this purpose.
a1877Knight Dict. Mech., Bossing, ground-laying the surface of porcelain in an unfinished state, to form a basis of adherence for the color... The bossing is a coat of boiled oil, to hold the color.1879E. C. Hancock Amat. Pott. & Glass Painter 49 When the oil has become somewhat set, so as to be ‘tacky’ to the finger, it is ready for the second process, called ‘bossing’.
II. bossing, vbl. n.2 U.S.|ˈbɒsɪŋ|
[f. boss v.2]
The practice of acting as a ‘boss’.
1864Sala in Daily Tel. 23 Dec., They won't do a stroke of work if they can help it..They like ‘bossing’.1884Manch. Exam. 13 Aug. 5/4 The ‘bossing’ of railways is a practice not exclusively confined to the United States.
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