3. In forging and smelting, a trough in which tools and ingots are cooled.

||Bosh"bok (&?;), n. [D. bosch wood + bok buck.] (Zoöl.) A kind of antelope. See Bush buck.

||Bosh"vark (&?;), n. [D. bosch wood + varken pig.] (Zoöl.) The bush hog. See under Bush, a thicket.

||Bos"jes*man (&?;), n.; pl. Bosjesmans. [D. boschjesman.] See Bushman.

Bosk (&?;), n. [See Bosket.] A thicket; a small wood. "Through bosk and dell." Sir W. Scott.

Bos"kage (&?;), n. Same as Boscage.

Thridding the somber boskage of the wood.

Tennyson.

{ Bos"ket, Bos"quet } (&?;), n. [F. bosquet a little wood, dim. fr. LL. boscus. See Boscage, and cf. Bouquet.] (Gardening) A grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed.

Bosk"i*ness (&?;), n. Boscage; also, the state or quality of being bosky.

Bosk"y (&?;), a. [Cf. Bushy.] 1. Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets. Milton.

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