bosomingn.
A taking into one's bosom; embracing.
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the mind > emotion > love > embrace > [noun] > action of embracing
clippingc1230
embracingc1386
halsing1387
collinga1425
amplection1474
embracement1485
culling1490
bracingc1540
clasping1562
embrace1599
embrasure1609
hugging1616
bosoming1624
amplexation1634
embrassade1830
huddling1869
lapping-
1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον iv. 169 Their bedding and boosooming.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
bosomingadj.
/ˈbʊzəmɪŋ/ Embracing, embosoming.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [adjective]
pent1610
casinga1616
closinga1616
palingc1630
bosominga1851
enclosing1856
including1899
a1851 D. M. Moir Evening Sketch. in Poet. Wks. (1852) II. 232 With bosoming boughs round Musselburgh hang Its clumps of ancient elm-trees.
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxi. 177 In Thee love lighteth a bosoming Flame.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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adj.a1851- honey drop
- honey etc more flies than vinegar
- honey eucalypt
- honey extractor
- honey flow
- honey flower
- honey fungus
- honey garlic
- honey gate
- honey gatherer
- honey gets more flies than vinegar
- honey gilding
- honey gland
- honey gum
- honey harvest
- honey hunter
- hopper-barge
- hopper-boy
- hopper-car
- hopper-cock
- hopper-crow
- hopper-dredge
- hopper-dredger
- hopper-eared
- hopper-free