[f. BOSS sb.1 + -Y1]
1. Swelling in, or like, a boss; projecting in rounded form.
1543. Traheron, Vigo’s Chirurg., I. iii. 3. The fourme of the heed … is also bossie, and bouncheth out in the fore and in the hynder partes.
1667. Milton, P. L., I. 716. Nor did there want Cornice or Freeze, with bossy Sculptures grav’n.
1668. Culpepper & Cole, Barthol. Anat., I. xiv. 33. The tuberant or bossie part of the Liver.
1879. T. Hardy, Return Native, i. 20. This bossy projection … occupied the loftiest ground of the heath.
2. Having bosses or prominences.
1812. H. & J. Smith, Rej. Addr., ix. (1873), 75. Survey this shield, all bossy bright.
1851. Ruskin, Stones Ven., II. vi. Bossy beaten work of mountain chains.
1876. Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., II. xviii. 146. Mab had … a bossy irregular brow and other quaintnesses.
