English Dictionary

bosom

/ˈbʊz(ə)m/

verb

To enclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish. / To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom. / (intransitive) To belly; to billow, swell or bulge.

She bosomed her secrets and carried them with her.

意味（1）

To enclose or carry in the bosom; to keep with care; to take to heart; to cherish.

Bosom up my counsel,

Bosom up my counsel, You’ll find it wholesome.

意味（2）

To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.

To happy Convents bosom’d deep in Vines,

To happy Convents bosom’d deep in Vines, Where slumber Abbots, purple as their Wines;

意味（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 […]

意味（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 mountain.