a. Obs. rare. [f. BOSS sb.1 + -IVE (suggested perhaps by F. bossu hump-backed).] Crooked, deformed.
1658. Osborn, Adv. Son (1673), 47. Wives do worse than miscarry, that go their full time of a Fool with a Bossive birth. Ibid., Jas. I., Wks. 513. Here lies … Little Bossive Robin.
