bosoming

Verb

bosom (third-person singular simple present bosoms, present participle bosoming, simple past and past participle bosomed)

1. To enclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.
   • Bosom up my counsel,
     You’ll find it wholesome.c. 1612, William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act I, Scene 1
2. To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.
   • To happy Convents bosom’d deep in Vines,
     Where slumber Abbots, purple as their Wines;1741, Alexander Pope, The New Dunciad: As it was Found in the Year 1741, Dublin: George Faulkner, published 1742, Book IV, p 29, lines 291-292
3. (intransitive) To belly; to billow, swell or bulge.
   • Just above the recess the cliff bosomed out with a full swell for some two or three feet, effectually preventing any one’s looking down into the nest from above […]1869, Allan Hume, “My first Nests of Bonelli’s Eagle”, in The Ibis, Series 2, Volume 5, p. 145
4. (transitive) To belly; to cause to billow, swell or bulge.
   • I looked again, and though I was sensible it must be a delusion brought on by the stroke of his powerful rod, yet I did see the appearance of a glorious fleet of ships coming bounding along the surface of the firmament of air, while every mainsail was bosomed out like the side of a Highland...1822, James Hogg, The Three Perils of Man, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Volume 3, Chapter 12, pp. 440-441

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