Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of hollow-horned ruminants, having simple horns in both sexes, typical of the family Bovidæ and subfamily Bovinæ, containing the oxen, or cattle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun (Zoöl.) A genus of ruminant quadrupeds, including the wild and domestic cattle, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns, and a large fold of skin hanging from the neck.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini
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Examples
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Actually, I hoped that would finish the job, but to make sure, I told her to be at that call bos on Tuesday.
the deer leap Grimes, Martha 1985
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Same template from Umbro, the different between UEFA Cup and domestic this kit are sponsor logo more smaller and no "bos" sponsor logo on short however been patch by number.
FC Groningen 2007-08 shirt/kits UEFA Cup Azmie aka switch image 2007
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Same template from Umbro, the different between UEFA Cup and domestic this kit are sponsor logo more smaller and no "bos" sponsor logo on short however been patch by number.
Archive 2007-10-01 Azmie aka switch image 2007
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Crouched in the khaki "bos" nearby was another platoon, this time being shot at by attackers with automatic weapons.
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Crouched in the khaki "bos" nearby was another platoon, this time being shot at by attackers with automatic weapons.
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Crouched in the khaki "bos" nearby was another platoon, this time being shot at by attackers with automatic weapons.
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He never calls you "bos" or speaks of you as "ole --."
The Liberian Exodus. An Account of Voyage of the First Emigrants in the Bark "Azor," and Their Reception at Monrovia, with a Description of Liberia--Its Customs and Civilization, Romances and Prospects. Alfred Brockenbrough Williams 1878
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First came the "herds of brown quadrupeds" very like a-- no! not a whale, but a bison, and "with a tail resembling that of the bos grunniens" -- the reader probably understands what kind of a "bos" that is, if he's apprenticed to a theatre in midsummer with musicians on a strike; then a creature, which the hoax-man naïvely declared "would be classed on earth as a monster" -- I rather think it would!
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"The figure is more perfect; as the bos, meaning the ox, is unable to perpetuate his kind; and the bos, in its most extended meaning, or vacca, is altogether the nobler animal of the two."
The Prairie James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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Folk with 'bos' and 'bor' in their names don't think they're the same race as commoners ... and perhaps they're right in that. "
Lord of the Isles 1997
oroboros commented on the word bos
Sob in reverse.
November 3, 2007
lampbane commented on the word bos
Boston/General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport.
October 21, 2008