Word Finder - bosom

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(somewhat obsolete) The breast or chest of a human (or sometimes of another animal).

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The seat of one's inner thoughts, feelings etc.; one's secret feelings; desire.

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The protected interior or inner part of something; the area enclosed as by an embrace.

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The part of a dress etc. covering the chest; a neckline.

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A woman's breast(s).

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Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior.

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A depression round the eye of a millstone.

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To enclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.

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To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.

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To belly; to billow, swell or bulge.

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To belly; to cause to billow, swell or bulge.

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In a very close relationship.

Your bosom buddy Jake's on a short leave.

He became Henry's bosom friend and was consulted in all affairs of state.

The death of his deeply beloved consort Anastasia and his son Demetrius, and the desertion of his one bosom friend Prince Kurbsky, about the same time, seem to have infuriated Ivan against God and man.

His eyes scoured her face, lingered on the plump lips he had tasted, and glanced lower at the healthy bosom pressed to his chest.

Beginning in the bosom of prophecy, and steadily differentiating itself from it in its successive developments, it never came to stand in absolute contrast to it.

These waters are utilized as the temporary reservoirs of the superfluous polder water, each system of reservoirs being termed a boezem (bosom or basin), and all lands watering into the same boezem being considered as belonging to it.

And suddenly his bosom heaved with sobs and he began to cry.

She stood with her slender arms hanging down, her scarcely defined bosom rising and falling regularly, and with bated breath and glittering, frightened eyes gazed straight before her, evidently prepared for the height of joy or misery.

A built-in underwire swimsuit can offer added lift for an ample bosom.

She was an author, she explained with a puff of her ample bosom, and had just returned from Roswell, New Mexico, Mecca of the strange and alien.

When the whole pleroma of preexistent souls in the world of the Sephiroth shall have descended and occupied human bodies and have passed their period of probation and have returned purified to the bosom of the infinite Source, then the soul of Messiah will descend from the region of souls; then the great Jubilee will commence.

Hence it may be said that the universals are in the individuals, constituting their essential reality (and it is an express part of Erigena's system that the created but creative Word, the second division of Nature, should pass into the third stage of created and non-creating things); or rather, perhaps, we ought to say that the individuals exist in the bosom of their universal.

In the 3rd century Bronwen (white bosom), daughter of Bran Fendigaid (the blessed), is said to have stayed here, perhaps by force; and there was here a tower, called Twr Bronwen, and replaced about A.D.

So we must suppose that before his death the schismatic was received again into the bosom of the Church, and this is confirmed by the fact that his memory was henceforth celebrated in the Church as that of a holy martyr.

It is strange enough, however, to see the river coming out full formed from the rock, and capable at its very source of bearing vessels on its bosom.

Bishop Alexander reluctantly assented to receive him once more into the bosom of the church, but before the act of admission was completed, Arius was suddenly taken ill while walking in the streets, and died in a few moments.

What was to be done with such a princess, whether she were to be nourished in one's bosom, above all whether it could be advisable or safe to try any diplomatic tricks upon such a lady, Knollys left for the minister to judge.

Among the slain was Sir John de Graham, the bosom friend of Wallace, whose death, as Blind Harry tells, threw the hero into a frenzy of rage and grief.

In the bosom of medieval society they were the last witness to a state of things that the regular development of Catholic cult had amplified and modified.

Man's duty is undoubtedly to join in the common service of sentient beings; but his final goal is to rise above the toils and comforts of the visible creature into the vast bosom of a peaceful Nirvana.

The prophets and patriarchs, having been often deceived by the Demiurge, suspected a trick and would not avail themselves of the promised salvation, remaining content with the bliss of being in Abraham's bosom.

Antony committed suicide, in the mistaken belief that she had already done so, but Octavian refused to yield to the charms of Cleopatra who put an end to her life, by applying an asp to her bosom, according to the common tradition, in the thirty-ninth year of her age (29th of August, 30 B.C.).

On the third Sunday in Advent 1329, and afterwards in public consistory, John had preached that the souls of those who have died in a state of grace go into Abraham's bosom, sub altari Dei, and do not enjoy the beatific vision (visio facie ad faciem) of the Lord until after the Last Judgment and the Resurrection; and he had even instructed a Minorite friar, Gauthier of Dijon, to collect the passages in the Fathers which were in favour of this doctrine.

Within a few weeks he had become the lampooner of the fallen treasurer, the bosom friend of Oxford and Bolingbroke, and the writer of the Examiner, a journal established as the exponent of Tory views (November 1710).

The young girl in her love for it carried the dead child clasped to her bosom, and went from house to house of her pitying friends asking them to give her medicine for it.

In both Sanskrit and Zend it means something like "comrade" or "bosom friend," but in Zend is used of the priestly or highest class.

Not that I looked at her taut heaving bosom or anything like that.

No we are not checking them out, although number three does have a very ample bosom.

Dame Judi Dench ' s ample bosom caused big problems at the Oscars.

The Madding Crowd's collective bosom was not on display.

He then ate the food and climbed the hill before burying himself in the warm bosom of Ffyona Campbell or some such blond.

With Him in all eternity, resting in His own bosom was His Only Begotten Son, the Son of His Love.

I am as reason and intellect within thy bosom At the time of joy and gladness, at the time of sorrow and distress.

Shall I take a knife and tear open my mother's bosom?

So long as I have been here, I have not willingly planted a thorn in any man's bosom.

She lifted her and clasped her daughter to her bosom, swathing her in the softness of the dressed deerskin.

Here was her precious son being whisked out of her protective bosom into an unknown arch enemy... .

Sae on the cod I see't in you Wi Maidenkirk to John o groats The bosom that you draw me to.

Then he took a locket from his bosom; .

Flo is overjoyed when she finds Donna at home, thinking her daughter has returned to her ' wonderfully pert bosom ' .

And so Eleanor's bosom became tranquil, and she set about her new duties eagerly and gratefully.

She is described as "not one of the handsomest women in the world; she is of a middling stature, swarthy complexion, long neck, wide mouth, bosom not much raised, and in fact has nothing but the English king's great appetite, and her eyes which are black and beautiful, and take great effect."

On the Roman Catholic side the employment of compulsion against heretics has never been acknowledged as a blunder; and this method of silencing opposition has found champions in the bosom of the Church down to the most recent years.

Perhaps the Old Sea God as he lay asleep upon the shore, heard the soft music of growing things--the stir of life in the earth's bosom, and his stormy heart was angry, because he knew that his and Winter's reign was almost at an end.

Without a touch of remorse you drive the father from his land, clasping to his bosom his household gods and his half-naked children.

It is a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs; no storms, no dust, can dim its surface ever fresh;--a mirror in which all impurity presented to it sinks, swept and dusted by the sun's hazy brush--this the light dust-cloth--which retains no breath that is breathed on it, but sends its own to float as clouds high above its surface, and be reflected in its bosom still.

They tell me that if the fox would remain in the bosom of the frozen earth he would be safe, or if he would run in a straight line away no foxhound could overtake him; but, having left his pursuers far behind, he stops to rest and listen till they come up, and when he runs he circles round to his old haunts, where the hunters await him.

Pierre held the hand of his betrothed in silence, looking at her beautiful bosom as it rose and fell.

When the second act was over Countess Bezukhova rose, turned to the Rostovs' box--her whole bosom completely exposed--beckoned the old count with a gloved finger, and paying no attention to those who had entered her box began talking to him with an amiable smile.

Princess Mary murmured, pacing the garden with hurried steps and pressing her hands to her bosom which heaved with convulsive sobs.