Bos
[bɔs]
Definition
(noun.) wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini.
Checker: Marge--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
Edited by Jason
Examples
- About Zoe, sir, answered the bos'n innocently. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The modern boss, on the other hand, shelters behind legal forms which he has got hold of and uses for his own ends. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This is as true of the high politics of Isaiah as it is of the ward boss. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I remember once speaking to a local boss about woman suffrage. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A boss was telling a governor how to extend his power. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Friends of boss. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- After a while we took it as a matter of course that the head of a company was an administrative dummy, with a dependence on unofficial power similar to that of Governor Dix on Boss Murphy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He knew how the boss worked, how he organized his power. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But the tyrant was rather more than a boss; he was recognized as a monarch, and claimed the authority of a monarch. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There were seven of us in a gang in Chicago, and Elsie's father was the boss of the Joint. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Look over your files,' said the boss to the man handling the press stuff. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The boss, and the bosslet, the heeler--the men who are it--all are there exercising the real power, the power that independently of charters and elections decides what shall happen. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It was evening before we reached the little town of Tavistock, which lies, like the boss of a shield, in the middle of the huge circle of Dartmoor. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He explained, also, that he was the boss pistol-shot of the West; that it was he who taught the celebrated Doctor Carver how to shoot. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Why has it been able to eliminate corruption, machine politics, and rid itself of the boss? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Editor: Priscilla