Bosom \Bos"om\ (b[oo^]z"[u^]m; 277), n. [AS. b[=o]sm; akin to D. bozem, Fries. b[=o]sm, OHG. puosum, G. busen, and prob. E. bough.] 1. The breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them.
You must prepare your bosom for his knife. --Shak.
2. Specifically: The breasts of a woman; as, an ample bosom. [PJC]
3. The breast, considered as the seat of the passions, affections, and operations of the mind; consciousness; secret thoughts.
Tut, I am in their bosoms, and I know Wherefore they do it. --Shak.
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my bosom. --Job xxxi. 33.
4. Embrace; loving or affectionate inclosure; fold.
Within the bosom of that church. --Hooker.
5. Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior; as, the bosom of the earth. ``The bosom of the ocean.'' --Addison.
6. The part of the dress worn upon the breast; an article, or a portion of an article, of dress to be worn upon the breast; as, the bosom of a shirt; a linen bosom.
He put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow. --Ex. iv. 6.
7. Inclination; desire. [Obs.] --Shak.
8. A depression round the eye of a millstone. --Knight.
bosom \bos"om\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to the bosom.
bosom \bos"om\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bosomed} (-[u^]md); p. pr. & vb. n. {Bosoming}.] 1. To inclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.
Bosom up my counsel, You'll find it wholesome. --Shak.
2. To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.
To happy convents bosomed deep in vines. --Pope.
Even trouser suits had daringly low-cut jackets, the bosom more evident than the shapely shoulders, jacket lapels often cut way down in this softly sexy collection to make way for the prominent female curves.
A decade later, a character on the hit network sitcom "Designing Women" used a derivative of one of those words in describing another character who was obsessed with enlarging her bosom.
It was easy to imagine distraught clients of both sexes being gathered, metaphorically speaking, to her bosom. But I was on other business.
"We fall on the ground, on the bosom of sands, like an endless seed looking for water," he read.
But concerns for a shapely bosom were deflated to an all-time low after 1968, when militant women's libbers symbolically burned their bras or stopped wearing them.
Her leather suits revealing a bit of bosom with no blouse underneath were daring for the Japanese doyenne of French fashion.
But although his flight has now put him outside the reach of British law, it is a homecoming that could turn bittersweet. His first day on his native island for two years was spent in the bosom of his family.
Some presented bolero jackets over a nude midriff, others cut their tops so short that they did not cover the essential, and others still dipped below the waist to bare the navel, while they covered the bosom in bandeau bras.
He calls cable "a viral contagion" and grouses, "We have never before in the history of this country grasped to our bosom a monopoly that was unsupervised, unregulated and unmonitored, and it cannot be allowed."
Trade secret let slip by National Theatre dresser Katie Morrow-Smith on BBC radio: If you're padding out a man in drag and want to give him a really saggy bosom, the best thing to use is birdseed.