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boce (1121-25)
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boce (1121-25)

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boche,  booce,  boosce,  boose,  bos,  bose,  bosse,  bosze,  boz,  boze,  bouche  (ros  TLL i 91)  
  FEW:  *bottia 1,467a Gdf:  boce 1,668b GdfC:  boce 8,333c TL: boce 1,1010 DEAF:  boce 1  DMF:  bosse  TLF:  bosse 1  OED:  boss n.1  MED:  boce n.  DMLBS: ∅

s.

1lump, protuberance: 
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 )  Veient en mer une boche Si cum ço fust une roche  S Brend mup 1213
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii1 )  [...] Se vos trovez poisson [...] ki ait une grant bouche (var. (CC: s.xiii1) boce) sor le dos [...]  Lapid 290
( MS: s.xiii )  gibbus gallice: (C) boce (var. (T: s.xiii/xiv) bos)  TLL ii 27
( MS: s.xiii2 )  tuber: boze  TLL ii 25
( MS: s.xiiiex )  gibbus gallice: bose  Vernac Glosses 23
♦anat.hump (on back) (?): 
( MS: s.xiii )  struma: boce in tergo  TLL ii 107
♦med.pathol.abscess, boil, tumour, ulcer: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Et environ la plaie si naissent plusors bouches  A-N Med i 251
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  un leprus ad trové Tut desfait e desfiguré. Rien n’i parut d’umaine figure, Tant curut des boces ordure  Mirur1 121vb26
( c.1245; MS: c.1255 )  De ses boces la quiture Desent par vostre vesture  S Edw paris ANTS 1981
( MS: s.xiii )  apostema: bosse  TLL i 147
( MS: s.xiii2 )  ulcus: un boce  TLL ii 12
( MS: s.xiii2 )  strumam: (A) boce (var. (T: s.xiii/xiv) bose)  TLL ii 19.1958
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  tut le cors fust repleny de boces pleyn de quyture  BOZ Cont 97
♦fig.pathol.med.(morbid) growth: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  sanz vene e sanz boce (var. (BN: s.xivin) boz) de tote (l. torte) conscience  Ancren2 161.24
2decor.boss (a raised ornament): 
( 1403-04 )  Richard Litlee fuist trové en defaute de vi boses appellé anelettes pur un jakke  Goldsmiths 290
( 1423 )  .j. autre ceel (=saddle), garniz de copre dorrez [...] ovec .ij. bridell’, une peitrelx et .j. croper de .xj. boces d’argent dorrez  Rot Parl1 iv 225
♦armourmil.boss (of shield): 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  De suz la boche li fraint l'escu faitiz  Rom Chev ANTS 1883 var.
♦costumehorn (of head-dress): 
( c.1305; MS: c.1330 )  (Ladies of fashion) Portent les boces com cornues bestes; Sy nule seit descornue, de ly font les gestes  BOZ Char 259
3anat.big toe: 
( MS: s.xiii )  allucis: bosse gallice  TLL i 147
4herald. water-bouget: 
( c.1312 )  Sire W. de R. de goules a .iij. bouces de argent  Parl Writs 410
5 name (used as a (sur)name): 
( 1179 )  Hugo Bosse  Family Names Boss
( 1196 )  Bosse filius Edrici  Family Names Boss
( 1227 )  William Bosse  Family Names Boss

See also:

bocete  bocium  boçu  boçulé 
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