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Bosom

adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective

1
In a very close relationship. not-comparable
"bosom buddies"

Noun

1
The breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal). dated
"Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat."
2
a close affectionate and protective acceptance wordnet
3
The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings, etc.; one's secret feelings; desire.
"my poor dear duke[…], in consequence of the excitement created in his august bosom by her frantic violence and grief, had a fit in which I very nigh lost him."
4
cloth that covers the chest or breasts wordnet
5
The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace.
"… Mr Toodle … was refreshing himself with tea in the bosom of his family."

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a person's breast or chest wordnet
7
The part of a dress etc. covering the chest; a neckline.
"And he put his hand into his boſome: and when hee tooke it out, behold, his hand was leprous as ſnowe."
8
either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman wordnet
9
A breast, one of a woman's breasts
"I dont [sic] know that her bosoms were fuller than usual."
10
the locus of feelings and intuitions wordnet
11
Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior.
"I observed, indeed, that the present war had filled the church with many of these uninhabited monuments, which had been erected to the memory of persons whose bodies were perhaps buried in the plains of Blenheim, or in the bosom of the ocean."
12
the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept wordnet
13
A depression round the eye of a millstone.
"The bosom of the mill-stone is a central depression, and the staff is adjustable to test the symmetry of the concavity."

Verb

1
To enclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.
"Bosom up my counsel, You’ll find it wholesome."
2
hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness wordnet
3
To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.
"To happy Convents bosom’d deep in Vines, Where slumber Abbots, purple as their Wines;"
4
hide in one's bosom wordnet
5
To belly; to billow, swell or bulge. intransitive
"Just above the recess the cliff bosomed out with a full swell for some two or three feet, effectually preventing any one’s looking down into the nest from above […]"

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To belly; to cause to billow, swell or bulge. transitive
"1822, James Hogg, The Three Perils of Man, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Volume 3, Chapter 12, pp. 440-441, I looked again, and though I was sensible it must be a delusion brought on by the stroke of his powerful rod, yet I did see the appearance of a glorious fleet of ships coming bounding along the surface of the firmament of air, while every mainsail was bosomed out like the side of a Highland mountain."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English bosom, bosum, from Old English bōsm, from Proto-West Germanic *bōsm, from Proto-Germanic *bōsmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH- (“to swell, bend, curve”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bossem, Bousem (“bosom”), West Frisian boezem (“bosom”), Dutch boezem (“bosom”), German Busen (“bosom”). Related also to Albanian buzë (“lip”), Greek βυζί (vyzí, “breast”), Romanian buză (“lip”), Irish bus (“lip”), and Latin bucca (“cheek”).

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