Crossword clues for bossed
bossed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boss \Boss\ (b[o^]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bossed (b[o^]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Bossing.] [OE. bocen, fr. OF. bocier. See the preceding word.] To ornament with bosses; to stud.
Bossed \Bossed\, a. Embossed; also, bossy.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: boss)
Usage examples of "bossed".
Ears are the best trophy you can take from a man, not as good as the skin of a blackmaned lion or the great bossed hams of a buffalo, but better than the scalp.
On a single spray of ruddy Gorgonia several of these commensal molluscs may occur in various stages of development--the smaller no bigger than the wing of a fly and almost as frail, the larger three and four inches long, and each whatsoever its proportions securely budded on and growing from a spur, while frequently the valves of the large are bossed with limpets and other encumbrances.
He confessed that for nearly a month now the house had been a damned gynocracy and he was getting tired of being bossed around by a couple of women.
Annette bossed her around, too, and as they grew older, Renee and Ronnie often tag-teamed against their motherlike guardian.
Arranged to traverse on circles fitted with Bossed Sockets for pivoting, and with clevis-bolts and sockets for housing.
Veluet brought downe to the frame of the Settles or Benches, and fastened to the same with tatch Nayles of Golde, with bossed heades vppon a plaine Siluer Nextrule or Cordicell.
Urging forward their mounts with wild cries, brandishing the small round bronze and iron studded and bossed war shields, they came racing towards the column.
In fact Blackie and Grab always said that the small dogs, with Toby and Quetch to champion them, bossed the club a good deal more than they had any business to.
And the suspicion of past failure being upon these sons of the salt sea, they were not beloved or admired by the Croweaters and Cornstalks and Gumsuckers, who, with an ex--Mississippian, bossed the river-craft fourteen to twenty years ago.
They thought of doing hard work in the lumbermill, getting sawdust all over them and being bossed around by Foreman Flacutono.
I was feeling down, and just in the mood to be bossed about and mistreated by someone big and dumb and domineering.
I'd been summoned, manhandled, shot at, captured, constricted, bossed about, and generally taken for granted.
Maybe so-but I know it's no favor to a child to raise it up to be bossed around and lorded over by those monkeys.
Maybe so -- but I know it's no favor to a child to raise it up to be bossed around and lorded over by those monkeys.
It was hardly ideal, traveling alone, but it was better than being constantly bossed around.