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Relating, or pertaining to, Boswell. Boswell'ism, n. The style or manner of Boswell. Bos'well's, in Virginia, a post-office of Fluvanna co. Bos'worth, JOSEPH, D.D., F.R.S., F.S.A., a distinguished English philologist, B. 1788. He studied at Cambridge, and in 1839 took his doctor's degree, and was elected Profe or of Anglo-Saxon in Oxford University. Dr. B. , who was a member of the principal learned societies of Europe, was the author of The Elements of Anglo - Sazon Grammar (1823); A Dictionary of the Anglo - Sazon Lan guage (1838); The Origin of the Danish Language; Abstract of Scand in avian Literature; Origin of the English , Germanic, and Scand in avian Languages and Nations; The E entials of Anglo Saxon Grammar; A Compendious Anglo- Saxon Dictionary (1848), . He likewise published King Alfred's Anglo -Saxon Version of the Historian Orosius, with an English translation (1855); and the same royal author's Description of Europe and the Voyages of Oh there and Wuljstan , in Anglo-Saxon, with an English translation (1855); The Gospels in Gothic of 360, and in Anglo - Saxon of 995, in parallel columns with Wyckliffe's Version of 1380, and Tyndale's of 1526, which work appeared in 1865. Died in 1876. Bosworth (Market), a small town of England, co. Leicester, memorable for the decisive battle of Bos worth Field , fought close to it, 22d Aug., 1485, between Richard III. of England, and the Earl of Richmond (afterwards Henry VII.), in which the former lost his crown and his life, and which terminated the long-continued struggle for supremacy between the rival Houses of York and Lancaster. Bosz'ra, a town of Syria, formerly the cap. of the A uranites; 50 m. S. of Damascus, and 80 N.E. of Jerusalem; Lat. 32° 40′ N., Lon. 36° 30′ E. Though now almost deserted, the ruins are extensive and magnificent; the principal of these, or at least the most sacred in Moslem estimation, is the Deir - Bohaira ("House of Bohaira"), so called from being consecrated to a monk of that name, who is said to have proclaimed the sacred character of Mohammed, when the prophet, in his 13th year, visited Syria with his uncle. The ruins are of the finest workmanship. B. is very ancient; it is mentioned in the Sacred Writings as one of the cities which the half tribe of Mana eh, beyond Jordan, gave to the Levites. ( Josh . xxi. 27.) Its strong castle was built by the Saracens, between whom and the Latin kings of Jerusalem it several times changed masters, and under Baldwin IV., in 1180, it was entirely ruined and depopulated. Bot, n. ( Zool .) See Bors.