Bosom

[A. S. bosm, bosum; Ger. busen, from beugen; Sansk. bug an, to bend, to curve.] The breast of a human being; the female breast; the hollow space formed between the breast and the garment that covers it. "You must prepare your bosom for his knife." Shaks. -The interior of the breast, as enclosing the heart, considered as the seat of tenderne , or of the pa ions, or as a close place; consciousne . "Or draw his frailties from their dread abode;... The bosom of his father and his God." Gray. with colleges and bazaars. Most of the houses are of - Embrace; tender or loving enclosure; as, in the bosom wood; the Migliazza is here cro ed by a ma ive stone of religion. earth. "In the deep bosom of the ocean buried." Shaks. bridge. The city was formerly encompa ed with walls, -Any enclosed spot; the interior; as, the bosom of the but these are now decayed, and its only defence consists in a large citadel, built on a rocky height at its E. extremity, and mounting 80 cannon. The inhabitants are industrious, and employed in the manufacture of arms, iron, and copper articles, horsehair, bags, morocco, and other kinds of leather, and cotton and woollen stuffs. Near B. S. are the principal iron-mines in Bosnia. It is the chief mart in the prov., the centre of the commer - Used in composition to form a compound word ex- pre ive of being familiar; affectionate; intimate; con- fidential; as, a bosom -friend. "Those domestic traitors, bosom -thieves, Whom custom hath call'd wives." - Ben Jonson.