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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Boss \Boss\ (b[o^]s; 115), n.; pl {Bosses} (-[e^]z). [OE. boce,
bose, boche, OF boce, boche, bosse, F. bosse, of G. origin;
cf OHG. b[=o]zo tuft, bunch, OHG. b[=o]zan, MHG. b[^o]zen,
to beat See {Beat}, and cf {Botch} a swelling.]
1. Any protuberant part a round, swelling part or body; a
knoblike process; as a boss of wood.
2. A protuberant ornament on any work either of different
material from that of the work or of the same as upon a
buckler or bridle; a stud; a knob; the central projection
of a shield. See {Umbilicus}.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Bosses
the projecting parts of a shield (Job 15:26). The Hebrew word
thus rendered means anything convex or arched, and hence the
back as of animals.
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