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BO'SOM, n. s as z.

1. The breast of a human being and the parts adjacent.

2. The folds or covering of clothes about the breast.

Put thy hand in thy bosom. Exodus 4

3. Embrace, as with the arms inclosure compass often implying friendship or affection as, to live in the bosom of a church.

4. The breast, as inclosing the heart or the interior of the breast, considered as the seat of the passions.

Anger resteth in the bosom of fools. Ecclesiastes 7 .

Their soul was poured into their mother's bosom. Lamentations 2

5. The breast, or its interior, considered as a close place, the receptacle of secrets.

If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom. Job 31

6. Any inclosed place the interior as the bosom of the earth or of the deep.

7. The tender affections kindness favor as the son of his bosom the wife of thy bosom.

He shall carry the lambs in his bosom. Isaiah 40

8. The arms, or embrace of the arms. Psalms 129 .

9. Inclination desire. Not used.

Bosom, in composition, implies intimacy, affection and confidence as a bosom-friend, an intimate or confidential friend bosom-lover, bosom-interest, bosom-secret, &c. In such phrases, bosom may be considered as an attribute equivalent to intimate, confidential, dear.

BO'SOM, To inclose in the bosom to keep with care.

Bosom up my counsel.

1. To conceal to hide from view.

To happy convents bosom'd deep in vines.