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Definition of Bossed
1. a. Embossed; also, bossy.
Definition of Bossed
1. Verb. (past of boss) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bossed
1. boss [v] - See also: boss
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bossed
Literary usage of Bossed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Assyria: Her Manners and Customs, Arts and Arms: Restored from Her Monuments by Philip Henry Gosse (1852)
"That of which a front view is here given, is from Kota; it is of transparent,
but very hard, deer-skin, with bosses INDIAN bossed SHIELD. of yellow metal; ..."
2. Diary and correspondence of samuel pepys f.r.s.. by Samuel Pepys (1854)
"... though they were not full neat enough for me, but pretty well it is; and thence
to the clasp-maker's, to have it clasped and bossed. 9th. ..."
3. Spanish Ironwork by Arthur Byne, Mildred Stapley Byne (1915)
"Su^ window treatments frequently afford, along with the bossed doors, about the
only adornment to the severe unpretentious façade of a Spanish palace. ..."
4. Lockwood's Dictionary of Terms Used in the Practice of Mechanical by Joseph Gregory Horner (1892)
"bossed Up.—A forging is bossed up when a circular disc of a sensible thickness
is formed upon its face, being either made from the solid iron by upsetting ..."
5. An Arrangement of British Plants: According to the Latest Improvement of the by William Withering (1830)
"... blood-red streaks, convex, rather bossed, yellow. Stem hollow, light brown,
scored, cylindrical, two and a half inches high, two and a half inches over. ..."
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