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| bosom | (n) the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept, Example: his bosom was bursting with the secret |
| bosom | (n) a person's breast or chest |
| bosom | (n) cloth that covers the chest or breasts |
| bosom | (v) hide in one's bosom, Example: She bosomed his letters |
| bosomy | (adj) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves, Syn. busty, buxom, curvy, well-endowed, stacked, curvaceous, sonsy, sonsie, voluptuous, full-bosomed, Example: Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes; a curvy young woman in a tight dress |
| boson | (n) any particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistics but not the Pauli exclusion principle; all nuclei with an even mass number are bosons |
| Bosom | n. [ AS. bōsm; akin to D. bozem, Fries. bōsm, OHG. puosum, G. busen, and prob. E. bough. ] You must prepare your bosom for his knife. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] Tut, I am in their bosoms, and I know If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom. Job xxxi. 33. [ 1913 Webster ] Within the bosom of that church. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ] He put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow. Ex. iv. 6. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| bosom | a. |
| bosom | v. t. Bosom up my counsel, To happy convents bosomed deep in vines. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| bosomed | a. |
| bosomy | a. |
| boson | n. [ From S. N. Bose, an Indian physicist. ] (Physics) A fundamental particle that obeys Bose-Einstein statistical rules, but not the Pauli exclusion principle; the spin value of a boson is always an integer. Examples of bosons are alpha particles, photons, and those nuclei which have an even mass number. [ PJC ] |
| boson | n. See Boatswain. [ Obs. ] |