ppl. a. [f. BOSOM sb. and v. + -ED.] a. Having a bosom, shaped like the bosom; swollen with wind (as a sail). b. Enclosed, hidden; confined in the bosom, bated (breath).
a. 1650. Crashaw, Sospetto d’Herode, xviii. Like two bosom’d sails.
1667. Milton, P. L., V. 127. The Groves, the Fountains, and the Flours That open now thir choicest bosom’d smells.
1730. Thomson, Autumn, 836. From the Bottoms of the bosom’d Hills.
1867. J. Martineau, Chr. Life (ed. 4), 344. Say, with bosomed breath, ‘Lo, God is here!’
