bossedadj.
/bɒst/ 1. Made to swell out or project, rounded out.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > [adjective]
fullOE
balghc1340
struttinga1398
bouchy1398
bunching1398
bunchy1398
lumpedc1425
bunched1426
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knule?a1513
bolling1519
bossed?1541
bossy1543
swelling1544
poked1577
embossed1578
extuberant1578
protuberant1578
protuberated1578
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bellieda1593
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buddy1611
hulch1611
hulched1611
jetty?1611
bottle-like1629
bungy1634
extuberating1634
bosomed1646
puffing1661
protuberous1666
tuberant1668
extuberic1680
swollen1688
bellying1700
swelled1704
humped1713
extuberated1727
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hummocky1791
bulging1812
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ampulliform1870
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bumfled1913
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Kivv [The thigh bone] is receyued in the pyt of the hukcle bone, and is somwhat bossed outwarde.
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 34v (margin) Where the Patel is thickest, and bossed forth like the middest of a buckler.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 81 The arteries..are straight and euen without any bossed knottes at all.
1647 J. Carter Nail & Wheel 21 They [nails] have great and glorious bossed and gilded heads.
2. Raised or beaten in relief, embossed; also, portrayed in relief.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > [adjective] > executed or ornamented in relief
emailled1480
bossed1536
embossed1541
protuberant1676
stamped1756
empaestic1838
1536 in E. Ledwich Antiquitates Sarisburienses (1771) 195 Two pair of Censers, silver and gilt, of bossed work.
1675 London Gaz. No. 1002/4 Stoln out of Westminster Abbey..Two large Silver Candle~sticks, Boss'd and Gilt.
1833 Ld. Tennyson Poems 83 With chalices of curious wine..And bossèd salvers.
1850 J. S. Blackie tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas II. 189 Upon his shield..He bears..a woman Leading with sober pace an armed man All bossed in gold.
3.
a. Furnished with bosses or projecting ornaments.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > decoration specifically in relief > [adjective] > bosses and knobs
knoppedc1394
stoothed1467
bossed1615
knosped1818
knotted1830
1615 Bp. J. Hall Imprese of God i, in Recoll. Treat. 660 Lucian compares his Grecians, to a fair, gilt, bossed book.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vii. 424 One of His Play-fellows proffered Him a bossed-plated Bible to stand upon.
1705 T. Hearne Diary (1885) I. 120 [A book] covered with velvet and boss'd with Silver.
1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise 473 Leaping up, he took The reins in hand and the bossed leather shook.
b. Studded, ornamented.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [adjective] > studded or set with ornaments
studdeda1425
bright-studdeda1560
bossed1586
bestudded1601
pinned1688
brass-studded1858
1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. I.ii v Weedes meete for a princely mayden, Boste with Ermines white.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 349 Fine Linnen, Turky cushions bost with pearle. View more context for this quotation
a1627 T. M. Blacke Bk. in Wks. V. 567 Hangers, all bost with pillars of gold.
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