[f. BOSKY a.1 + -NESS.] The quality of being bosky.
a. 1844. in W. H. Maxwell, Sports & Adv. Scotl. (1855), iv. 57. Tangled … boskiness.
c. 1860. Imperial Gaz. Scotl., I. 222.
1863. Hawthorne, Old Home (1879), 56. A shadowy secluded grove, with winding paths among its boskiness.
